Applied Studies
2024. Diploma in Studies in Sound Art. Tsonami Sound Art. Valparaíso, Chile.
2022. Master Degree in Design of Spaces and Cultural Experiences. International University of Valencia. Higher School of Design of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.
2017. Diploma in Scenography for Theater, Television, and Commercial Exhibition. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
2016. Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts with an emphasis on Plastic Expression. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
Academic current situation
2025. Professor. Sound post-production and Construction of audiovisual spaces at the Master's degree in audiovisual creation. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Bogotá, Colombia.
Residencies
2022. Artistic Residency Festival In Situ Bazancourt. Association Ouvre les yeux. Bazancourt and Paris, France.
2022. Mas Palou Artistic Residence. Penedès Wine Region. Province of Barcelona, Spain.
2021. Artistic Residency Festival In Situ Bazancourt. Association Ouvre les yeux. Bazancourt and Paris, France.
2014. Open Residence in LA CALA –Casa Abierta La Andariega– center for creation, study, and research. Chodes, Aragon, Spain.
Individual Exhibitions and Events
2023. DESASOSIEGO/UNRAST (Uneasiness). Prima Kunst. Kiel, Germany.
2022. AZUL (BLUE). Galería 12:00. Bogotá, Colombia.
2019. Sound intervention. Speak to me like a radio: some sound events that marked the history of Bogotá, in the permanent exhibition at the Bogotá Museum, part of the Pedagogical Exchanges series. Bogotá, Colombia.
2018. Célula (Cell). Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation, part of ARTBO Weekend.
Bogotá, Colombia.
2018. EXHALAR (EXHALE). Neebex Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2015. Solo exhibit and sound event. Turn, Breathe, and Listen: The Wind Machine, at the Guerrero Academy of Arts. Guerrero Espacio Galería y Auditorio Ágora. Bogotá, Colombia.
2015. Solo event. Turn, Breathe, and Listen: The Wind Machine, at the El Parque Theater in the National Park. Bogotá, Colombia.
2015. Turn, Breathe, and Listen: The Stay of the Wind, at La Cala (Casa Abierta La Andariega), a center for creation, study, and research. Aragón, Spain.
2013. Sonido de Piedra: Illuminate by Day, Possible Sound. Mezzanine Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2010. grafo-.–grafo. Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Arts, Javeriana University. Bogotá, Colombia.
Awards Between Lands Between Chicharras
2024 - Acquisition award. For the work Entretierras Entrechicharras (Betweenlands, betweencicadas), Miguel Urrutia Art Museum Collection, Banco de la República. Bogotá, Colombia.
2023 - Winner of the Best Experimental Short Film, New Visions category, at the Discovered Film Festival with AMARILLO (YELLOW). Huanchaco, Pacasmayo, and Trujillo, Peru.
2022 - Acquisition Award of the video Lista de cada día (Daily list), Museum of Contemporary Art Collection. Bogotá, Colombia.
2022 - Winner of the International Mobility Incentives, Ministry of Culture. Bogotá, Colombia.
2021 - Winner of the Idartes Incentive Grant for participation in the XIV National Salon of Young Art at the Santafé Gallery with the work PAJARERA (AVIARY). Bogotá, Colombia.
2018 - Winner of the Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer Prize from Phonurgia Nova with the composition Todo suena como los pájaros (Everything Sounds Like Birds). Paris, France.
2019 - Winner of the Doble Espacio Publicaciones Fotográficas publication award with the book CUARTA PARED (FOURTH WALL). Bogotá, Colombia.
Theater
2025. Sound design for the work En el ombligo del maguey (In the Navel of the Maguey) by choreographer, performer and singer Priscella Uvalle (Mexico), part of the 11th International Living Arts Encounter at the National University of Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia.
2019. Direction, choreography, and musical composition for the dance-theater and electroacoustic music piece Jardín Solar (Solar Garden), presented at the Teatro Libélula Dorada (Dorada Libélula Theater). Bogotá, Colombia.
Acousmatic Music
2025. Participation with the work Inexorable Trajectory (Ambisonic 16.1.1) In RESONANT SPACES, 2nd Festival of Architecture and Listening, Sonometer Listening Session and at the Cultural Platform of the University of Chile. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2024. Participation with the work Lontananza (Distantness) at the Supersonique Festival. Comptoir de la Victorine. Marseille, France.
Participation with the work How a Meteorite Sounds When It Falls on the television program Extramuros on Señal Colombia RTVC dedicated to the Colombian artist María Elvira Escallón. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the Women/+ in New Music Festival, winning works of the FMMN 2024 Teatro Acto Latino call, with the work Lontananza (Distantness). Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the Acousmatic Jaguar Concert at the Luis Ángel Arango Concert Hall with the work Ajuar (Dowry), projected with the BLAST sound diffusion system from the University of Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the Sur Aural Festival with the work Lontananza (Distantness). Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
2023. Participation in the Aquí (Here) concert with the composition Jardines Obsoletos (Obsolete Gardens), part of En el acto de sonar (In the Act of Sounding), a Contemporary Music Festival of the Círculo Colombiano de Música Contemporánea
(Colombian Circle of Contemporary Music). Bogotá and Barranquilla, Colombia.
2023. Participation in the Rien à voir! Festival with the work Microfono entreabierto
(Half-open Microphone). Monestiés, Tarn, France.
2022. Participation in the 24 Hours of Rhythms event at the Sound Art Center with the sound piece Corriente Corriente Corriente (Current Current Current).
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2021. Participation in the Helicotrema Festival, Web Playlist Todo sueña como los pájaros V2 (Everything Dreams Like Birds V2). Italy.
2020. Participation in the Sur Aural Festival with the work Todo sueña como los pájaros V2 (Everything Dreams Like Birds V2). Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
2019. Broadcast of the composition Everything Sounds Like Birds on Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio through the program Radiokunst: Neue Autorenproduktionen Kurzstrecke 90. Germany.
2019. Participation in the Futura Festival with the composition Jardín entomológico (Entomological Garden). Crest, France.
2019. Participation in the Rien à voir! Festival with the composition Todo suena como los pájaros (Everything Sounds Like Birds). Monestiés, Tarn, France.
2018. Winner of the First Prize Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer of Phonurgia Nova with the composition Todo suena como los pájaros (Everything Sounds Like Birds). Paris, France.
2018. Participation in the Phonurgia Nova Award nominees’ concert held at the National Library of Paris with the composition Todo suena como los pájaros (Everything Sounds Like Birds). France.
2017 - 2018. Honorable Mention in the PRESQUE RIEN Prize with the sound piece Micrófono entreabierto (Half-open Microphone). Paris, France.
2017. Participation in the Futura Festival with the sound piece Respiración imaginaria (Imaginary Breathing). Crest, France.
2017. Participation in the electroacoustic music festival [ex-nihilo] with the sound piece Cerca. Allá. Abierto. (Close. There. Open). Held at the Auditorium of the Regional Cultural Center. Ocoyoacac, Mexico.
2016. Participation in the Siphonophora concert, electroacoustic music and sound art, with the sound piece Caracola (Seashell), related to the Thomas Glassford installation at the Museo Universitario del Chopo. Curated by Manuel Rocha Iturbide. Mexico City, Mexico.
Participation in the group exhibitions Cosquilleos, zumbidos y otras inconformidades (Tingling, buzzing and Other Inconformities) held at El Sanatorio, El Parche, Javeriana University, and El Lugar. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation with the acusmonium sound piece Caracola de pájaros (Seashell of birds) in the Transitions Sonores festival organized by the Université Paris 8 and held in Paris, France.
2016. Participation with the sound piece Caracola (Seashell) in the CLIMATE CHANGE event organized by A Listening Room and held at Hyde Park Book Club. Leeds, England.
2015. Participation in the Recorded Audio Festival Helicotrema in Forte Marghera in Venice, Florence, and Mestre with the sound piece La máquina de viento (The Wind Machine). Venice, Florence, and Mestre, Italy.
2014. Participation with the sound piece Respiro (Breath) in Radio Earlid's Liminal Sounds section. New York, United States.
2006. Participation with the electroacoustic piece Magenta in the GRIS Plástica Sonora concert at the Delia Zapata Theater, as part of the Colón Electrónico Series.
Bogotá, Colombia.
Group Exhibits
2025-
LOGOS. Elvira Moreno Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the SCRIPTIO CONTINUA exhibition at LA Galería with the works Cascada, Eco, Diafonía: Silencio Elocuente, Sonido Evidente, Línea de hielo, and Escandallo174, Escandallo164. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the exhibition Instantes chéveres, New Narratives Latinoaméricaines, curated by Franklin Arellano, at Galerie Wagner, with the work Primordial Resonant Cavities. Paris, France.
September 2024 - April 2025.
Participation in the collective exhibition of new acquisitions, Miguel Urrutia Art Museum Collection, Banco de la República, at the Casa Republicana. Digging to Reach the Stars with the work Entretierras Entrechicharras Entrechicharras (Betweenlands, betweencicadas). Bogotá, Colombia.
2024 -
Participation in the 3rd Book Biennial with the work Open Symbol and the book Entretierras (Betweenlands) written by Franklin Arellano on the work Entretierras (Betweenlands) at Le Prouvette Gallery. Paris, France.
Participation in the Salón Regional Central Zone Resonances of the railway track with the work Eloquent Silence, Evident Sound. Tunja, Tocancipá, Sopó, and Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the 3rd Entre-tener Book Biennial with the book Entretierras (Betweenlands) written by Franklin Arellano, about the work Entretierras (Betweenlands) and the work Imaginary Nets. Javeriana University. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the LOUTEK collective exhibition with the work EXHALAR (EXHALE).
Casa Hoffman. Bogotá, Colombia. EAFIT Arts Centre. Medellín, Colombia.
Participation in the exhibition CO INCIDENCIAS with Colombian photographer Carlos Saavedra and curated by Franklin Arellano at Proceso Art Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2023 -
Participation in the collective exhibition LOUTEK with the work EXHALAR (EXHALE).
Casa Hoffman. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the group exhibition My homeland and caravan at Ateneo de Aroa, featuring the work Huella para... (Trace for…) curated by Franklin Arellano.
Aroa, Venezuela.
Participation in the group exhibition Tracing dialogues at Galería Sede Chicó Alianza Française with the works Estar ahí and ¿Cómo suena una manzana al caer? (Being there and How does an apple sound like when it falls?) curated by Franklin Arellano.
Bogotá, Colombia.
2022 -
Participation in the group exhibition Artecámara After, curated by Alejandro Martín, part of Artbo - Bogotá International Art Fair - with the sound installation Entretierras Entrechicharras (Betweenlands, betweencicadas). Bogotá, Colombia.
Sound design for the performance Still Alive Dinner by the art collective
How to You Eat. Utrecht, Netherlands.
Dissemination of the results of the In Situ Festival Bazancourt artist residency, Ouvre les Yeux Association, with the sound piece Circular and the video ¿Cómo suena una manzana al caer? (How Does an Apple Sound When It Falls?) at La Concordia Market Square.
Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the group exhibition River en Espacio en Blanco with the sound installation Espacio Habitable (Habitable Space), created in collaboration with Colombian artist Juan Fernando Baena. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the collective exhibition Somos+ New Acquisitions Collection of the Bogotá Museum of Contemporary Art with the video Lista de cada día (Daily list).
Bogotá, Colombia.
2021-2022
Participation in the collective exhibition Apuntes de nuevos proyectos Franco Colombianas (Notes on New french and colombian proposals) held at Galería 12:00 with the work Trompo en el cielo (Spinning top in the sky).
Curated by Mauricio Gómez and Franklin Arellano. Bogotá, Colombia.
2021 –
Participation in the collective exhibition Cosmo-BIB held at Cosmopolis with the work Háblame como... (Talk to me like…). Nantes, France.
Participation in the collective exhibition TOGETHER held at Café Crème with the original drawings from the publication Entretierras (Betweenlands). Curated by Franklin Arellano. Miami, United States.
Winner of the Idartes Incentive Grant for participation in the 14th National Salon of Young Art at Galería Santafé with the work PAJARERA (AVIARY). Bogotá, Colombia.
2020 –
Intervention Through Thunder and Coal carried out with Colombian artist Jonathan Blake Pinto part of Adrien Abline's Xaucube2 project. La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
Participation in the virtual group exhibition this exhibition does not exist at 1200 Galería, featuring the work A Phrase a Day. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the group exhibition Strange Attractors curated by Ricardo Toledo Castellanos at LA Galería, part of ARTBO Weekend, with the works Entretierras, Campana Cortada, and Fin de la Tierra (Betweenlands, Cut bell, and End of land). Bogotá, Colombia.
2018 –
Participation in the group exhibition Assonant, held at the Casa Bolívar Cultural Center ASW, featuring the work Entreabierto (Half-open). Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the group exhibition Programmatic Absurdity, organized by the Cano Hall of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá Campus, held at the Cloister of San Agustín with the work Mundo Raro (Strange world). Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the group exhibition Ways of doing, organized by the Visual Arts Program at the Javeriana University, with the work Entretierras (Betweenlands). Bogotá, Colombia.
2017 –
Participation in the group exhibition El Vitrinazo by Valenzuela Klenner with the sound installation CASACARACOLA (SEASHELLHOUSE). Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 - Participation in the group exhibition Art and Nature: The Defensible at the Bogotá Botanical Garden with the work Ambiente-Zumbido (Ambient-Buzz). Bogotá, Colombia.
2012 - Participation in the group exhibition Maquínica (Machinery) at the Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Arts at the Javeriana University in Bogotá with the work
Matraca No. 2 (Rattle No. 2). Bogotá, Colombia.
2011 –
Winner of the image and participation with the work White Noise No. 2 at the XI Javeriano Visual Arts Salon. Virgilio Barco Library. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the group exhibition of the 1st Faber-Castell National Drawing Competition, Museum of Contemporary Art. Bogotá, Colombia.
Photography and Video
2023. Participation in the International Image Festival with the short film AMARILLO (YELLOW). Manizales, Colombia.
2023. Participation in the Discovered Film Festival with the short film AMARILLO (YELLOW). Huanchaco, Pacasmayo, and Trujillo, Peru.
2021. Participation in the Metacinema Festival with the video Lista de cada día (Daily list). Italy.
2021. Participation in the Faenza Video Festival with the video Lista de cada día (Daily list). Bogotá, Colombia, and Havana, Cuba.
2019. Participation in the 20 Latin American Women Photographers gathering 20 Photobooks with the photography publication CUARTA PARED (FOURTH WALL).
Panama City, Panama.
2019. Winner of the Photographic Publications Doble Espacio publication award with the book CUARTA PARED (FOURTH WALL). Bogotá, Colombia.
2017. Participation in the group exhibition organized by Fotomeraki: One and other with the photographs Aullido (Howl) at Espacio El Dorado. Bogotá, Colombia.
2017. Participation with the photographs Háblame como el agua y déjame escucha (Talk to me like water and let mi listen) in the group exhibitions Lumens Chemical, Alternative and Experimental Photography Festival at the Neebex Gallery and Ojorojo Fábrica Visual. Bogotá, Colombia.
2012-2013. Participation with the photography series Sin palabras!! (Without words !!) in the group exhibition Auras at the Valenzuela Klenner Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2013. Participation in the group exhibition Body, Space, Belief at the Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Arts at the Javeriana University, with the work El baño (The Bathroom), a tribute to Iturbide and Kahlo. Bogotá, Colombia
Podcast
Slow Poetry:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0U1FtplkY1YnvrMOsmht7j?si=f2f1af6e7fb449a8
55 Years of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0tNnwUYwYsgv5VuKeHhrVw?s
Slow Sound:
https://open.spotify.com/show/65unkwS4WC4VS9MoYn8lfv?si=6baf40d9d31347d4
Academic Activity
Professor - Sound Postproduction and Construction of Audiovisual Spaces. Master's Degree in Audiovisual Creation. Pontifical Javeriana University. Bogotá, Colombia. 2025-2026.
Thesis Jury. Pontifical Javeriana University: 2024-2026.
Master's in Audiovisual Creation.
Thesis Jury. Undergraduate in Visual Arts. Pontifical Javeriana University: 2022-2024.
Reviewer of academic texts. Cuadernos Magazine. Pontifical Javeriana University. 2023.
Thesis Jury. Undergraduate in Visual Arts. Universidad de los Andes: 2020.
Thesis Jury. Undergraduate in Visual Arts. Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano: 2018.
2021: Cotidiáfonos Everything sounds, everything is music. Aimed at children ages 8 to 11. Bazancourt School, France. In this workshop, we learn some simple techniques for building objectophones from everyday materials.
2022: My Ideal Neighborhood. Aimed at children ages 8 to 11. Bazancourt School. France. Each child will create a cardboard box, thinking about their ideal home and neighborhood. After the individual creation, all the boxes are joined together into a single construction as a collective creation.
Assistant to the Cartographies of Art group. 2011-2014. Pontifical Javeriana University. Bogotá, Colombia.
Sound Design
2024: Composition of an acousmatic sound piece and a music/rap beat for audiovisual products for the Popular Economies project (August 7 Experience), developed by ICANH and FUNDACIÓN ALMA.
2022: Sound design for the performance "Still Alive Dinner" by the artistic collective How to You Eat. Utrecht, Netherlands.
2022: Sound design for the performance "Extended Waking Meditation Exercise No. 1" by artist José Hopkins, Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 2022.
2018: Sound creation for the short film/animation "Movements in the Basement" by Cecilia Traslaviña.
2017: Sound mastering for the work "Stereo Nostalgias and Telewalks through a Place in the Caribbean" by Angélica Piedrahita. Sound design of all works by the author.
Interviews
Interview at the Helicotrema Festival 2015:
http://helicotrema.blauerhase.com/julia-bejarano-lopez/
Interview with David Vélez, Sonic Field Eco Part 6:
http://sonicfield.org/eco-part-6-jnbbejarano/
Participation in Television Programs and Others
2024: Participation as a guest musician with the work How Does a Meteorite Sound when falling? on the TV series Extramuros, dedicated to María Elvira Escallón, produced by RTVC and directed by Salvador Arveláez Jaramillo. Bogotá, Colombia.
2024: Participation in Esmeralda Ramírez's Radio Laboratorio, Colombia's National Radio, Señal Memoria, with the work Toca-disco (Play-record). Bogotá, Colombia.
