CV Julia Bejarano López
ARTIST and COMPOSER // BOGOTÁ COLOMBIA 1991
MASTER’S IN VISUAL ARTS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON PLASTIC EXPRESSION,
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA.
2016 BOGOTÁ-COLOMBIA.
DIPLOMA IN SCENOGRAPHY FOR THEATER, TELEVISION, AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION.
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA.
2017 BOGOTÁ-COLOMBIA.
BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN SOUND ART
TSONAMI SOUND ART.
2024 VALPARAÍSO-CHILE.
MASTER'S DEGREE IN DESIGN OF SPACES AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA.
HIGHER SCHOOL OF DESIGN OF BARCELONA.
2022 BARCELONA-SPAIN.
PROFESSOR- SOUND POST-PRODUCTION.
MASTER'S DEGREE IN AUDIOVISUAL CREATION.
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA.
2025. BOGOTA.
RESIDENCES
- Artistic Residency Festival In Situ Bazancourt. Association Ouvre les yeux.
Bazancourt and Paris/France. October 2022.
- Mas Palou Artistic Residence. Penedès Wine Region,
Province of Barcelona/Spain. January 2022.
- Artistic Residency Festival In Situ Bazancourt. Association Ouvre les yeux.
Bazancourt and Paris/France. October 2021.
- Open Residence in LA CALA –Casa Abierta La Andariega– center for creation, study, and research.
Chodes, Aragon/Spain. September-October 2014.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
Solo exhibit DESASOSIEGO/UNRAST. Prima Kunst. Kiel, Germany.
June-August 2023.
Solo exhibit AZUL. Galería 12:00. Bogotá, Colombia. March-April 2022.
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. December 2019.
Solo exhibit Célula. Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation, part of ArtBo Weekend. Bogotá, Colombia. May 2018.
Solo exhibition EXHALAR. Neebex Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia. March-April 2018.
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. September and October 2015.
Solo event: Turn, Breathe, and Listen: The Howling Machine, at the El Parque Theater in the National Park. Bogotá, Colombia. June 2015.
Solo exhibit: Turn, Breathe, and Listen: The Stay of the Wind, at La Cala (Casa Abierta La Andariega), a center for creation, study, and research.
Chodes (Aragón, Spain). 2015.
Solo exhibit: Sonido de Piedra: Illuminate by Day, Possible Sound. Mezzanine Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia. 2013.
Solo exhibit: grafo-.–grafo., Exhibition Hall, Faculty of Arts, Javeriana University. Bogotá, Colombia. 2010.
AWARDS
Acquisition award. For the work Entretierras Entrechicharras, Miguel Urrutia Art Museum Collection, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. August 2024.
Winner of the Best Experimental Short Film, New Visions category, at the Discovered Film Festival with AMARILLO. Huanchaco, Pacasmayo, and Trujillo, Peru. March-April 2023.
Acquisition award of the video Lista de cada día, Bogotá Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Colombia. February 2022.
Winner of the International Mobility Incentives, Ministry of Culture. Bogotá, Colombia. October 2022.
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. March 2021.
Winner of the Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer Prize from Phonurgia Nova with the composition Todo suena como los pájaros (Everything Sounds Like Birds). Paris, France. September 2018.
Winner of the Doble Espacio Publicaciones Fotográficas publication award with the book CUARTA PARED (FOURTH WALL). Bogotá, Colombia. April 2019.
THEATER
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. August 2019.
ACOUSMATIC MUSIC
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. March 2025.
Participation in the work Lontananza at the Supersonique Festival. Comptoir de la Victorine. Marseille, France. September 2024.
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. October 2024.
Participation in the Women/+ in New Music Festival, winning works of the FMMN 2024 Teatro Acto Latino call, with the work Lontananza. Bogotá, Colombia. October 2024.
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. September 2024.
Participation in the Sur Aural Festival with the work Lontananza. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. July 2024.
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. March-April 2023.
Participation in the Rien à voir! Festival with the work Microfono entreabierto (Open Microphone). Monestiés, Tarn, France. June 2023.
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. June 2022.
Participation in the Helicotrema Festival, Web Playlist Everything Dreams Like Birds V2. Italy, 2021.
Participation in the Sur Aural Festival with the work Everything Dreams Like Birds. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. July 2020.
Broadcast of the composition Everything Sounds Like Birds on Deutschlandfunk Kultur radio through the program Radiokunst: Neue Autorenproduktionen Kurzstrecke 90. Germany. September 2019.
Participation in the Futura Festival with the composition Entomological Garden. Crest, France. August 2019.
Participation in the Rien à voir! Festival with the composition Everything Sounds Like Birds. Monestiés, Tarn, France. June 2019.
Winner of the First Prize Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer of Phonurgia Nova with the composition Everything Sounds Like Birds. Paris, France. September 2018.
Participation in the Phonurgia Nova Award nominees’ concert held at the National Library of Paris with the composition Everything Sounds Like Birds. France. September 2018.
Honorable Mention in the PRESQUE RIEN Prize with the sound piece Half-Open Microphone. Paris, France. December-January 2017-2018.
Participation in the Futura Festival with the sound piece Imaginary Breathing. Crest, France. August 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 of Ocoyoacac, Mexico. March 2017.
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. October 2016.
Participation in the group exhibitions "Cosquilleos, zumbidos" and "Other Inconformities" held at El Sanatorio, El Parche, Universidad Javeriana, and El Lugar. Bogotá, Colombia. August 2016.
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. March 2016.
Participation with the sound piece "Caracola" in the CLIMATE CHANGE event organized by A Listening Room and held at Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds, England. April 2016.
Participation with the sound piece "Respiro" (Breathe of Breath) in Radio Earlid's Liminal Sounds section. February 2014.
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. September 2015.
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. 2006.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Participation in the SCRIPTIO CONTINUA exhibition at LA Galería with the works
Cascada, Eco, Diafonía: Silencio Elocuente, Sonido Evidente, Línea de hielo, and
Escandallo174Escandallo174Escandallo164. Bogotá, Colombia. March 2025.
Participation in the exhibition "Cheveres Instantes, Nouvelles Narratives Latinoaméricaines," curated by Franklin Arellano, at Galerie Wagner, with the work "Primordial Resonant Cavities." Paris, France. January 2025.
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. December 2024.
Participation in the Salón Regional Central Zone Resonances of the Carrilera
with the work Eloquent Silence, Evident Sound. Tunja, Tocancipá, Sopó, and Bogotá, Colombia. October-December 2024.
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. September-April 2024-2025.
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. October 2024.
Participation in the collective exhibition LOUTEK with the work EXHALAR. Hoffman House. Bogotá, Colombia. July 2023.
EAFIT Arts Center. Medellín, Colombia. April-August 2024.
Participation in the exhibition CO INCIDENCIAS with Colombian photographer Carlos Saavedra and curated by Franklin Arellano at Proceso Art Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia. June-July 2024.
Participation in the group exhibition "Ma patrie est caravane" at Ateneo de Aroa, featuring the work "Huella para..." curated by Franklin Arellano. Aroa, Venezuela. October 2023.
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. May 2023.
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. October 2022.
Sound design for the performance "Still Alive Dinner" by the art collective How to You Eat. Utrecht, Netherlands. October 2022.
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. November 2022.
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. November 2022.
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. February 2022.
Participation in the collective exhibition Cosmo-BIB held at Cosmopolis with the work Háblame como... Nantes, France. October 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. December 2021.
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. December, January 2021-22.
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. March 2021.
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. November-December 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. August 2020.
Participation in the group exhibition Strange Attractors curated by Ricardo Toledo Castellanos at LA Galería, part of ArtBo Fin de Semana, with the works Entretierras, Campana Cortada, and Fin de la Tierra. Bogotá, Colombia. July 2020.
Participation in the group exhibition "Asonante," held at the Casa Bolívar Cultural Center ASW, featuring the work "Entreabierto." Bogotá, Colombia. December 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. October 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. August 2018.
Participation in the group exhibition El Vitrinazo by Valenzuela Klenner with the sound installation CASACARACOLA. Bogotá, Colombia. May 2017.
Participation in the group exhibition Arte y Naturaleza: Lo Defencible at the Bogotá Botanical Garden with the work Ambiente-Zumbido. Bogotá, Colombia. 2013.
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." 2012.
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. 2011.
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.
