Cali, Colombia, 1972

Vive y trabaja en Berlin y New York [ Lives and works in Berlin and New York ]

Estudios [ Studies ]

2000
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York

1999
M.F.A. in Film, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

1997
B.F.A. Minor in Literature, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

Exposiciones individuales [ Selected solo exhibitions ]

2009
Petra, Mexico City

2007
Severa Vigilancia, Alcuadrado, Bogotá

2005
Año Cero, Valenzuela y Klenner Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá. Gandy Gallery, Bratislava. Fusebox Gallery, Washington

2003
Valenzuela y Klenner Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá

2002
Six Feet Under, “New York 2002” Whitebox Gallery, New York. White Balance (to think is to forget differences), Location One, New York

2001
Twin Murders, and Other Exercises, Alliance Française, Bogotá. Recorders (collaboration with Katya Sander), Location One, New York

Exposiciones colectivas [ Selected group exhibitions ]

2009
Photography Exhibition (curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrum), Helsinki

2008
Salón Nacional de Artistas Urgencia, (curated by Bernardo Ortiz et. all), Cali.
Eflux Video Rental, Lisbon.
Tragicomedia, FIT, Cadiz.
Sin Remedio, (curated by Mariangela Méndez), Alcuadrado, Bogotá.
Rational/Irrational, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, (curated by Valerie Smith), Berlin.
Interstitial Zone, Argos Arts and Brussels Biennial, Brussels.
Rencontres Internationales, Madrid / Berlin.
Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston TX.
t.error your fear is an external object (curated by Anniko Erdosi) Kunsthalle, Budapest.
Proyecto Visionarios, Instituto Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, itinerant exhibition, 2008-2009
Unmasked: A Marathon of Artists’ Videos and Films Contesting Systems of Rule,” (curated by Carlos Motta) New Museum, New York.
Obsoleto (curated by Mariángela Méndez) Fundación Giberto Alzáte Avendaño, Bogotá.
Politics of Vision (curated by Emilie Bujes), Forde, Geneva.

2007
Video screening, (curated by Jorge Jaramillo) Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño
Imagem e Pensamento (curated by Eduardo de Jesus), Belo Horizonte.
CPH:DOX, (in competition), Copenhagen.
Existencias MUSAC, León.
Play Gallery, Babylon Theater, Berlin.
Rencontres Internationales, Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Tessalonniki Biennial (curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrum).
Pawnshop, E-flux, New York.
In other Words, (curated by Mariángela Mendez) Ramapo Art College, New Jersey.
Displaced, Glynn Vivian Gallery (curated by Maria Clara Bernal), Swansea, UK.
The Intricate Journey Part1 1-3, NGBK, Berlin.
Transmisiones Salón Nacional de Artistas, Bogotá.
Societé Anonyme, Le Plateau (collaboration with René Gabri and Ayreen Anastas), Paris.
In the Poem… (curated by Tanya Leighton), Overgarten, Copenhagen, Midway Minneapolis.
Aftershock, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia.

2006
Unitednationsplaza, Video screening, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art. (curated by Martha Rosler).
Cityscape (curated by Victor Zamudio), Galería Alcuadrado, ARCO, Madrid.
In the Poem… (curated by Tanya Leighton), Artists Space, New York.
Last Lives (curated by Tessa Giblin), SMART, Amsterdam.
Monitoring, Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Kassel.
Glasskultur (curated by Martí Perán), Koldo Mitxelna, San Sebastian, Centro Cultural La Panera, Barcelona.
Salón Nacional de Artistas, Bogotá.
nEUclear Reactions (curated by Paco Barragán), CAB, Burgos.
In Other Words (curated by Mariangela Mendez), Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Salón Regional (curated by Natalia Gutierrez), Bogotá.
Dark Places (curated by Joshua Deckter), Santa Monica Art Museum.
Re-shuffle, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
When Artists Say We, (curated by Ayreen Anastas) Artists Space, New York.
A Complete Guide to Re-Write your Own History, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin.

2005
Alcuadrado, Art Basel, Miami Beach.
September 11, 1973 Orchard 47, New York.
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam.
Split Festival of New Film, Split.
Festival Internacional de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte.
Amakula Kampala International Film Festival
Art in General, New York.
Radio Arte Mobile, Rome.
Transmediale, Berlin.
International Contemporary Art Biennial (curated by Paco Barragán), Prague.
In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love (curated by Tanya Leighton), Centre For Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
Film Museum, Brussels.

2004
Dandole Vuelta al Poder (curated by Victoria Noorthoorn), Centro Cultural La Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
Salón Nacional de Artistas, Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá.
9 Mütter XX 04 (curated by Tanya Leighton), Mütter Museum, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
Valdez V, Art in General, New York.
Urbes Interiores, (curated by Jose Roca), BLAA, Bogotá.
Finalists al Primer premio a la Videocreación en Iberoamerica, (first prize) Casa de America, MUSAC, Madrid.
Transmediale, Berlin.
Hit n’ Run, (curated by Loucky Keiser), Gigantic Art Space, New York.
Cine y Casi Cine (curated by Berta Sichel), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Document(all) (curated by Berta Sichel), Argos Foundation, Brussels.
Festival Internacional de Vídeo y Multimedia de Canarias, Islas Canarias.
LA Freewaves, Los Angeles.

2003
Slowness (curated by Mercedes Vicente), Dorsky Curatorial Project, New York, Govett-Brewster Art Center, New Zealand.
Errancias, Valenzuela y Klenner, Bogotá.
24/7: Vilnius, (curated by Raimundas Malasauskas), CAC, Vilnius.
Prague Biennial 1, (curated by Sofia Hernandez), Prague.
Raw (curated by Denise Carvalho), Smack Mellon, Brooklyn.
Valdez de Oro, Centre d’édition Contemporaine, Geneva.
Go!, Liquidación Total, Madrid.
Next Five Minutes, Amsterdam.
Arsenal Theater, Berlin.
Videolisboa, Lisboa (prize of the Jury).
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck.
VideoEx, (first prize), Zurich.
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago.
Reencontres Internationals Paris/Berlin.
Nova Cinema, (curated by Katia Rossini) Brussels.
Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley, (curated by Steve Seid), Berkley.
Festival de Video de Rio de Janeiro (curated by Karyn Riegl), Rio de Janeiro.

2002
Speaking Truths (curated by Moukhtar Kocache) Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis.
Empire/State: Engaging the Spaces of Globalization, The Whitney Museum ISP Curatorial Program, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
S-files (curated by Victoria Noorthoorn and Deborah Cullen) Museo del Barrio Biennial, New York.
Hash Brown Potatoes (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud), Smack Mellon, New York.
Unheard of (curated by Eduardo Difarnecio), Cuchifritos, New York.
Caribean Biennial, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo.
KIOSK Modes of Multiplication, Revolver, touring exhibition.
New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, New York.
Tate Britain, Turner Prize Video Program (curated by Ian White), London.
Reports from the Global Village, (curated by Karyn Riegl) Cinema Paradise Festival, Honolulu.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Media Arts Festival in Friesland.
Kassel Documentary Film Festival (nominated for the Werkleitz Grant 2002).
Special Program, Indonesian International Film Festival, Jakarta.
Special Program, Impakt Festival, Utrecht.
Semantics of Fear (curated by Florian Wuest), Weimar.
Oberhausen Film Festival, Special Program (curated by Keith Sandborn), Oberhausen.
Reports from the Global Village, (curated by Karyn Riegel), Ocularis, New York.
L.A. Freewaves, (curated by José Roca), Los Angeles, Boston,
America’s Society, New York.

2001
Artists in Residence, Location One, New York.
Ground Zero, Transitory Audio Archive, Nomads and Residents, New York.
Doméstica, (curated by Jose Roca) Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá.
Fragments of a Lover’s Video (curated by José A. Restrepo), Bogotá, Buenos Aires.
Valdez, Revista de Arte, La Panadería, Mexico City.
INPUT, International Public Television Conference, Official selection, Halifax, Canada.
Twin Murders The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York.

2000
Here and Elsewhere, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York.
Christie’s, Colombian art auction, London.
En Vitrina, Valenzuela y Klenner, Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá.
PR 00 Biennial (curated by Maria Inés Rodriguez), San Juan.
Anthropology (in collaboration with Katya Sander), Momentum, Moss, Norway.
Sidelong Glance (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud) Im n Il Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

1999
National Young Artists Salon, Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá.
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago Film Center.
Cadena 3, National T.V. broadcast, Bogotá.

Proyectos [ Projects ]

2003
Television (an address) in collaboration with Drazen Pantic, New York.
Stream on Location a curatorial project www.location1.org/streamonlocation, Location One, New York.
Operation Now (an international festival of dissent), Sixteenbeaver, New York.
Inscribing the Temporal, a presentation of Sixteenbeaver (curated by Sara Reisman), Kunsthalle Exnegrasse, Vienna.

2002
24-hour Network Event, (with , Rene Gabri, John Menick, , Isabelle Jenniches), Location One, New York.

2001
Postmedium Outside Sculpture, Inside Scultpure, co-organizer with Tanya Leighton, Edinburgh School of Art, Edinburgh.
Collective Memory, Co-organizer of the Symposium, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York.

1997
Notations for a Voyage, curatorial project with Lucas Ospina, Bogotá.

Selección de artículos y comentarios [ Selected Articles and Reviews]

2008
“Cali es mi Criptonita”, Revista Gente, El País.

2007
“Severa Vigilancia”, Art Nexus.
Zahir, Yasmin, Aftershock Catalogue, Sainsbury Art Center, Norwich.
Lundstrum, Jan-Erik, Tessalonika Biennial Catalogue.
Migliorin, Cezar, White Balance (pensar é esquecer as diferenças), De François Bucher, Evento Imagem e Pensamento en Belo Horizonte.
Osorio, Juan Esteban, “Los Viejos Narcos en la Ruina”. Arcadia.
Bellini, Franchesca “Severa Vigilancia”, El Nuevo Siglo.
Pignalosa, Cristina, “Severa Vigilancia” El Tiempo.
Jiménez, Carlos, Un Tigre de Papel, El País.

2006
Jiménez, Carlos, Colección del MUSAC.
Giblin, Tessa, “Forever Live: The Case of K. Gun”, Catalogue of Last Lives in The Universe.
Mendez, Mariángela, Master degree exhibition thesis “In Other Words” CCS Bard College.
Anspach, Beate, “Forever Live: The Case of K. Gun”, Catalogue of Monitoring Kassel Documentary Film Festival.
Perán, Martí, Catalogue of Glasskultur, Centro Cultural La Panera.
Gutierrez, Natalia, “El Cuadro de la Cacería del Zorro en la Sabana”, Salón Nacional de Artistas.
Sperlinger, Mark, “In The Poem about Love you don’t write the word Love,” Frieze.
Gale, Ian, “Playing to the galleries” Scotland on Sunday Sun.
“In The Poem about Love you don’t write the word Love,” Visual Art.
Mulholland, Neil, “In The Poem about Love you don’t write the word Love,” Art Review.
Gutierrez, Natalia. Catalogue for Salón Nacional.

2005
Richter, Angelika, “Britney Spears, or the injuries of Iconoclash” 7. Werkleitz Biennial.
Lozano, Ana Maria, “From Idisiosincratic to ideological,” Dossier Videobrasil.
De Jesus, Eduardo, Interview FF >> Dossier Videobrasil.
Ordás Carlos. MUSAC, Catalogue of the Collection Vol 1.
Barragán, Paco. International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Prague.
López, Catalina. “1948” Arte y Parte.
Gopnik, Blake. “Here and Now” The Washington Post.
Gutierrez, Natalia. “Año Cero,” Art Nexus.
Dávila, Reyes, Beatriz. “El Año Cero siempre es ahora: Bucher,” El Espectador.
Campos, Rodrigo. “El Bogotazo visto desde el Arte,” El Tiempo.

2004
Verlichak, Victoria. “Dándole Vuelta al Poder,” Art Nexus.
Jimenez, Carlos. “Zoom”, El Pais.
Roca, José. Catalogue of Urbes Interiores, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá.
Featured project: “Television (an address)”.
Barnett, Erin, New Museum Picks.

2003
Hernández, Sofia, “Television (an address),” exhibition text for the Prague Biennial.
Vicente, Mercedes, exhibition text for Slowness, Dorsky Projects.
Helguera, Pablo. “The S-files,” Art Nexus.
González, Francisco José, “Cicatrices de Nueva York,” La Revista de El Espectador (front cover).
Villamarín Paola. “Video de artista caleño llegó a sitio como la Tate de Londres.” El Tiempo.
Hawke, John. Raw, The Brooklyn Rail.
Cotter, Holland. “The S-files.” The New York Times.

2002
Roca, José. LA Freewaves, Columna de Arena 46.
Popeson A. Pamela, “El Museo’s Bienal 2002 The (S) Files / The Selected Files”, NY Arts Magazine.
Roca, José. “El Inestable Balance de la »realidad«” Columna de Arena, www.universes-in-universe.de
Cotter, Holland. “Amidst the Ashes, Creativity.” The New York Times.
Cotter, Holland. “Empire/State: Engaging the Spaces of Globalization.” The New York Times.
Vicente, Mercedes. Catalogue of “Empire/State: Engaging the Spaces of Globalization.” Whitney Museum of American Art ISP.
Levine, Kim. “François Bucher” recommended, The Village Voice.
Williams, Gregory. “White Balance (to think is to forget differences).” Critics Picks, Art Forum.
Hoffman-Schwartz, Daniel, “States of the Empire,” Afterimage.
Van Agt, Beatrijvs, “Lamgelegde Nieuwsgierigheid”, Skrien, Rotterdam.
Noorthoorn, Victoria,“On Translation and The Power of The Gap”, S-files exhibition Catalogue.
Barliant, Claire, “Digitally Grounded,” NYFA.
Fricke, Harald, Super-8-Orgie im Netzportal.
Hallensleren, Silvia, “Die Stadt schreit”, Der Tagespiegel.
Heybrock, Mathias, “Ich Weiss nicht ob ich das aushalten kann…”.
Di Chiara, Somajni, “Apocalisse sullo schermo, con retorica”, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano.
Fleer, Cornelia, “Genug gequalmt”, Jungle World.
Seifert, Heribert, “Mehr als nur der 11 September”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Swiss/French national television, Fax Culture, Interview.

2001
Roca, José. “ François Bucher, Twin Murders.” Columna de Arena, www.universes-in-universe.de.
Roca, José. “François Bucher.” Exhibition Catalogue of Doméstica, BLAA.
Baysa, Koan Jeff. “Museum of Mankind,”.

2000
“Sidelong Glance.” Lápiz
“Sidelong Glance.” Time Out.
“Sidelong Glance.” NY Arts.
Romero, Sandro “Twin murders and Other Exercises.” Interview on National Public Radio for the exhibition at the Alliance Française.

1999
Romero, Sandro,“Twin Murders.” Interview on National Public Radio for the screening at the Museo de Arte Moderno.

1997
“The Artist’s Studio.” Interview, Señal Colombia.
Serrano, Eduardo “Tres Irreverentes.” Semana.
“A Bet on Reality.” La Prensa.
Jiménez, Carlos. “The Players.” Art Nexus International.

1996
Serrano, Eduardo “The Contemporary Drawing.” Semana.
“Pedro Manrique Figueroa, The Precursor of Collage in Colombia.” Señal Colombia.

1995
“Mi Obra Soy Yo”, El Espectador.

Escritos y Publicaciones [ Writings and Publications ]

2009
Bucher, François. “Transculturación en el arte colombiano”, edited by Maria Clara Bernal, Carmen Mariá Jaramillo and Ivonne Pinni.
Bucher, François. “The Picture of Fox Hunting in The Bogotá Savannah” Laguna Eds.

2008
Bucher, François. “Subjects of the American Moon (from studio as reality to reality as studio)“ Journal of Visual Culture.
Bucher, François, Contribution to “Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast”, “Impossible Cinema” a project by Olga Adelantado, edited byTanya Leighton.

2007
Bucher, François. Respuestas a la Escuela Panamericana del desasosiego, Esfera Pública in Documenta Magazine.
Bucher, François, Contribution to “Vertov from Z to A” Ediciones La Calavera. #4, Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, Eds.
Bucher, François.”Televisión (un discurso)“, Estudios Visuales.
Bucher, François. Trebisonda, or Sonia Balassanian in the Time of the Foxes Venice Biennial Armenian Pavillion, edited by Rene Gabri.
Bucher, François. “Manuel Hernández” Publicación de la Facultad de Arte de La Universidad de Los Andes
Bucher, François. “Love” GAS, Copenhaguen.
Bucher, François. “A Democracy of Meaning”, What does art have to do in particular with Democracy? Goldsmith College.

2006
Bucher, François. Home for lost ideas, edited by Daniel Rees and Catharine Grifiths.
Bucher, François. Pavel Büchler, Absentmindedwindowgazing, (exhibition Catalogue), Kunsthalle Bern.
Bucher, François. “A Movement in the Mystery”, In the Poem about Love you don’t Write the Word Love, Lucas & Sternberg, Berlin.
Bucher, François. “Television (an address)” Here and Elsewhere, Simon Sheikh and Katya Sander eds. New York.

2004
Bucher, François. “Television (an address)”, Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 4, No. 1, 5-15 (2005) 2004.

2003
Bucher, François. “Witness of the Century,” MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Madrid.
Bucher, François. “Imagining this Piece” Valdez V, Paris.
Bucher, François. “Art World Security,”
Bucher, François. “Attaining the Body,” Saving the Image: Art after Film, Center for Contemporary Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Tanya Leighton, Pavel Büchler eds. Glasgow.

2002
Bucher, François. “A Game of shifting Mirrors,” Øjeblikket, Copenhagen
Bucher, François and Lucas Ospina and Bernardo Ortiz, eds, Valdez, Bogotá, (founding co editor), I - V, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003

2000
Bucher, François. “Bruno Serralongue, a Profession of The Artist.” Vivre sa vie (exhibition Catalogue), Gatico Editions, Glasgow.

1998
Bucher, François. “Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick,” “Jaime Palacio,” “Wade Hoefer” (exhibition Catalogues), Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York.

1997
Bucher, François. “National Young Artists Salon” (exhibition Catalogue), Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá
Bucher, François. 12 Luis Caballero Catalogues, (ed., with Lucas Ospina), Santa Fé Gallery, Bogotá

1996
Bucher, François. Cambio 16,(film and book reviews), Bogotá.
Bucher, François. Mancha Magazine, (founding co editor), Bogotá.

Selección de artículos y comentarios [ Selected Articles and Reviews]

2008
Artist Talk, UDK, Berlin.
Artist Talk, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá.
Gulbenkian Foundation Film Seminar, Lisbon.
Visiting professor, University of Umeä, Art Academy, Umeä.
Kadist Foundation, “Societé Anonyme”, Paris.

2007
Visiting professor, University of Umeä, Art Academy, Umeä.
United Nations Plaza, Berlin.
Documenta 12 Magazines, Johannesburg, Kassel.
The E-Image, LABoral Asturias.
Aftershock, University of East Anglia, Sainsbury Center, Norwich.

2006
Visiting professor, University of Umeä, Art Academy, Umeä.
Under Fire, Bienal de Sevilla, online forum.
Artist’s talk, Werkleitz Biennial, Halle.
Artist’s talk, Original Fassung, Berlin.
Artist’s talk, Sparwasser, Berlin.
Políticas del Arte, CENDEAC, Centro de Documentación y Estudios Avanzados de Arte Contemporáneo, Murcia.

2005
Visiting professor, University of Umeä, Art Academy, Umeä.
Artist’s talk FTV://berlinvideotalks, Berlin.
Artist’s talk, Cornerhouse, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.

2004
Artist’s talk, Intorno, Venice.

2003
Location One Residency Program, Copyright and Public space, New York.

2002
Artist’s Talk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Artist’s talk, ARCO, Lisbon.
Artist’s talk, Sixteenbeaver, New York.

1999
Teacher Assistant for the course The Religious Imagination in Film, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

1997
Teacher Assistant of the main workshop of the BFA, Uniandes, Bogotá.

Distinciones y Premios [ Honors and awards ]

2007
Second Prize, Fair Play Festival, Berlin.

2006
Nominated for the Golden Cube, Kassel Documentary Film Festival.
Nominated to The Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship.

2005
Nominated to The Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship.
Grant from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

2004
Nominated to the Rema Hort Foundation Grant.
First prize Premio a la Videocreation en Iberoamerica, MUSAC, Casa de America, Madrid.
Werkleitz Award 2004, Transmediale Festival, Berlin.
Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film Festival.

2003
Prize of the Jury, Videolisboa, Lisboa.
First Prize VideoEX International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival, Zurich.

2002
Nominated for the Werkleitz Grant, Kassel. (second place).
Special Program, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen.

2001
Matisse Prize (Residency in Paris), Alliance Française, Bogotá.
New York Media Arts Grant, The Jerome Foundation, New York.

2000
The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, fellowship, New York.

1999
Fellowship awarded for MFA Thesis, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
MFA travel grant The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

1997
Carolina Oramas Scholarship, Colombian Institute of Foreign Study (ICETEX), Bogotá.
Prize for the short film project, Twin Murders, Ministry of Culture, Bogotá.

Colecciones [ Collections ]

La Caixa
Barcelona.

Bard College,
Annadale.

University of California,
Santa Cruz.

Princeton University
New Jersey.

University of Essex,
Essex.

MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Spain.