2024. Course of Studies in Sound Art. Tsonami Sound Art. Valparaíso, Chile.
2022. Master Degree in Design of Cultural 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.
2025. PROFESSOR. Sound post-production 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.
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.
2023. DESASOSIEGO/UNRAST. Prima Kunst. Kiel, Germany.
2022. AZUL. 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. Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation, part of ARTBO Weekend. Bogotá, Colombia.
2018. EXHALAR. Neebex Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2015. Solo exhibit and sound event. Turn, Breathe, and Listen: The Howling Machine, at the Guerrero Academy of Arts. Guerrero Espacio Galería y Auditorio Ágora. Bogotá, Colombia.
2015. Solo event. Turn, Breathe, and Listen: The Howling 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
2024 - Acquisition award. For the work Entretierras Entrechicharras, 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. Huanchaco, Pacasmayo, and Trujillo, Peru.
2022 - Acquisition Award of the video Lista de cada día, 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. 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
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. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2024 -
Participation in the work Lontananza 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. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the Jaguar Acoustic Concert at the Luis Ángel Arango Concert Hall with the work Ajuar (Assignment), projected with the BLAST sound diffusion system at the University of Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the Sur Aural Festival with the work Lontananza. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
2023. Participation in the Aquí Concierto 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 (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 Everything Dreams Like Birds V2. Italy.
2020. Participation in the Sur Aural Festival with the work Everything Dreams Like Birds. 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 Entomological Garden. Crest, France.
2019. Participation in the Rien à voir! Festival with the composition Everything Sounds Like Birds. Monestiés, Tarn, France.
2018. Winner of the First Prize Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer of Phonurgia Nova with the composition 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 Everything Sounds Like Birds. France.
2017 - 2018. Honorable Mention in the PRESQUE RIEN Prize with the sound piece Half-Open Microphone. Paris, France.
2017. Participation in the Futura Festival with the sound piece Imaginary Breathing. Crest, France.
2017. Participation in the electroacoustic music festival [ex-nihilo] with the sound piece 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, 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" and "Other Inconformities" held at El Sanatorio, El Parche, Universidad Javeriana, and El Lugar. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation with the acusmonium sound piece "Caracola de pájaros" (Birds' Caracola) in the Transitions Sonores festival organized by the Université Paris 8 and held in Paris, France.
2016. Participation with the sound piece "Caracola" 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 The Wind Machine. Venice, Florence, and Mestre, Italy.
2014. Participation with the sound piece "Respiro" (Breathe of Breath) in Radio Earlid's Liminal Sounds section.
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 "Cheveres Instantes, Nouvelles 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, Bank of the Republic, at the Casa Republicana. Digging to Reach the Stars with the work Entretierras Entrechicharras. Bogotá, Colombia.
2024 -
Participation in the 3rd Book Biennial with the book "Entretierras" written by Franklin Arellano on the work "Entretierras" and the work "Symbol Abierto," at Le Prouvette. Paris, France.
Participation in the Salón Regional Central Zone Resonances of the Carrilera 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, written by Franklin Arellano, about the work Entretierras and the work Imaginary Nets. Javeriana University. Bogotá, Colombia.
EAFIT Arts Center. Medellín, Colombia.
Participation in the exhibition CO INCIDENCIAS with Colombian photographer Carlos Savedra and curated by Franklin Arellano at Proceso Art Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2023 -
Participation in the collective exhibition LOUTEK with the work EXHALAR. Hoffman House. Bogotá, Colombia.
Participation in the group exhibition "Ma patrie est caravane" at Ateneo de Aroa, featuring the work "Huella para..." curated by Franklin Arellano. Aroa, Venezuela.
Participation in the group exhibition Trazando diálogos at Galería Sede Chicó Alianza Française with the works Estar ahí and ¿Cómo suena una manzana al caer? curated by Franklin Arellano. Bogotá, Colombia.
2022 -
Participation in the group exhibition Artecámara Después, curated by Alejandro Martín, part of Artbo - Bogotá International Art Fair - with the sound installation Entretierras Entrechicharras. 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 Río 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 (List of Each Day). Bogotá, Colombia.
2021-2022. Participation in the collective exhibition Apuntes de nuevos proyectos Franco Colombianas (Notes on New Proposals) held at Galería 12:00 with the work Trompo en el cielo (Trunk 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... Nantes, France.
2021. Participation in the collective exhibition TOGETHER held at Café Crème with the original drawings from the publication Entretierras. Curated by Franklin Arellano. Miami, United States.
2021. Winner of the Idartes Incentive Grant for participation in the 14th National Salon of Young Art at Galería Santafé with the work PAJARERA. Bogotá, Colombia.
2020. Intervention carried out with Colombian artist Jonathan Blake Pinto. Through Thunder and Coal, part of Adrien Abline's Xaucube2 project. La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
2020. Participation in the group exhibition. "This exhibition does not have a virtual counterpart" at 1200 Galería, featuring the work 'A Phrase a Day'. Bogotá, Colombia.
2020. 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. Bogotá, Colombia.
2018. Participation in the group exhibition "Asonante," held at the Casa Bolívar Cultural Center ASW, featuring the work Entreabierto. Bogotá, Colombia.
2018. Participation in the group exhibition Absurdo Programmático, 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. Bogotá, Colombia.
2018. Participation in the group exhibition Modos de Hacer, organized by the Visual Arts Program at the Javeriana University, with the work Entretierras. Bogotá, Colombia.
2017. Participation in the group exhibition El Vitrinazo by Valenzuela Klenner with the sound installation CASACARACOLA. Bogotá, Colombia.
2013. Participation in the group exhibition Arte y Naturaleza: Lo Defencible at the Bogotá Botanical Garden with the work Ambiente-Zumbido. Bogotá, Colombia.
2012. Participation in the group exhibition "Maquínica" at the Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Arts at the Javeriana University in Bogotá with the work "Matraca 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.
2011. Participation in the group exhibition of the 1st Faber-Castell National Drawing Competition, Museum of Contemporary Art. Bogotá, Colombia.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO
Participation in the International Image Festival with the short film AMARILLO. Manizales, Colombia. June 2023.
Participation in the Discovered Film Festival with the short film AMARILLO. Huanchaco, Pacasmayo, and Trujillo, Peru. March-April 2023.
Participation in the Metacinema Festival with the video Lista de cada día. Italy. December 2021.
Participation in the Faenza Video Festival with the video Lista de cada día. Bogotá, Colombia, and Havana, Cuba. May 2021.
Participation in the 20 Latin American Women Photographers gathering 20 Photobooks with the photography publication CUARTA PARED. Panama City, Panama. September 2019.
Winner of the Doble Espacio Publicaciones Fotográficas publication award with the book CUARTA PARED. Bogotá, Colombia. April 2019.
Participation in the group exhibition organized by Fotomeraki: Una y Otra with the photographs "Howl" at Espacio El Dorado. Bogotá, Colombia. April 2017.
Participation with the photographs "Háblame como el agua y dejame escucha" in the group exhibitions Lumens Encuentro de Fotografía Química, Alternativa y Experimental at the Neebex Gallery and Ojorojo Fábrica Visual. Bogotá, Colombia. March 2017.
Participation with the photography series "Sin palabras!!" in the group exhibition "Auras" at the Valenzuela Klenner Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia. 2012-2013.
Participation in the group exhibition Body, Space, Belief at the Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Arts at the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, with the work The Bathroom, featuring Iturbide and Kahlo. 2013.
PODCASTS
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
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH WRITINGS
R14 Gráficas Molinari: The Carpet: The Secret Garden of the Stage, written in conjunction with historian María del Pilar López. Bogotá, Colombia. November 2024.
Ideas Sónicas No. 32 of the essay "The Sounds of Nature" Primordial Resonators: From the Conch to the Cave. Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts. Editor: Claudia Arozqueta. Morelia, Mexico. September 2024.
Tempo Magazine No. 52 of the essay "Acoustic Jaguar: The Music of Mauricio Bejarano." Bogotá, Colombia. September 2024.
The Sound Glossary in the catalog "Almanaque Pintoresco" of the exhibition "Digging to Reach the Stars," curated by Luis Fernando Ramírez at the Casa Republicana of the Bank of the Republic. Bogotá, Colombia. September 2024.
Tsonami Ediciones of the essay "The Breath of Sound." Valparaíso, Chile. February 2024.
Gaceta Magazine No. 2 of the drawing "Snow at 1000 Hertz" (Snow at 1000 Hertz). Issue dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Colombian television. Bogotá, Colombia. June 2024.
"Sound Art in Colombia, State of the Art," coordinated by Jorge Mario Díaz Matajira, of the essay "When Children Listen. On the Act of Playing and Sound Creation." Antonio Nariño University. Bogotá, Colombia. November 2021.
Electroacoustic music album "Caracola de Pájaros" (Bilingual publication (Spanish-French). ENTRETIERRAS: Observations by Franklin Arellano on the Casting Net and the work ENTRETIERRAS by Julia Nanda Bejarano López. Bogotá, Colombia / Paris, France. July 2021.
Winner of the Doble Espacio Publicaciones Fotográficas publication award with the book CUARTA PARED (FOURTH WALL). Bogotá, Colombia. April 2019.
Participated in the print publication Colombian Photographers by Fotomeraki with the series ¡¡Sin palabras!! (Without words!), Bogotá, Colombia. 2015.
Participated in the Cuadernos magazine of the Javeriana University of Bogotá, Colombia with the essay Vida, escucha y creación sonido a desde el sonido ordinaria de respira y de silencio y su relación con la arte. Vol. 12 No. 2 (2017): El arte y el mundo ordinaria (Art and the Ordinary World). 2017.
Participated in the Cuadernos magazine of the Javeriana University of Bogotá, Colombia, with the review Las Claves del Arte Popular by Ticio Escobar. 2014.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Teacher - Professor - Sound Postproduction. Master's Degree in Audiovisual Creation. Pontifical Javeriana University. Bogotá, Colombia. 2025. Thesis Jury. Pontifical Javeriana University: 2024.
Master's in Audiovisual Creation. Thesis Jury. Pontifical Javeriana University: 2022-2024.
Undergraduate in Visual Arts.
Reviewer of academic texts. Cuadernos Magazine. Pontifical Javeriana University. 2023.
Thesis Jury. Universidad de los Andes: 2020.
Undergraduate in Art. Thesis Jury. Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano: 2018.
Undergraduate in Visual Arts. 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.
SOUND DESIGN
Composition of acousmatic music/rap beat for audiovisual products for the Popular Economies project (August 7 Experience), developed by ICANH and FUNDACIÓN ALMA. December 2024.
Sound design for the performance "Still Alive Dinner" by the artistic collective How to You Eat. Utrecht, Netherlands. October 2022.
Sound design for the performance "Extended Waking Meditation Exercise No. 1" by artist José Hopkins, Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 2022.
Sound creation for the short film/animation "Movements in the Basement" by Cecilia Traslaviña, 2018.
Sound mastering for the work "Stereo Nostalgias and Telewalks through a Place in the Caribbean" by Angélica Piedrahita, 2017.
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
Participation as a guest musician in 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. November 2024.
Participation in Esmeralda Ramírez's Radio Laboratorio, Colombia's National Radio, Señal Memoria, with the work Toca-disco. Bogota, Colombia, September 2024.
2024 - Proyecto Vestes Albae. Residencia artística en Casa Mérida Contemporary, Ciudad de México.
2012 – Residencia Anual BLOC. Santiago, Chile.
