Girardota, Colombia 1951-Bogota Colombia 1994
1976. Diseño Gráfico y Artes Plásticas (Graphic Design and Plastic Arts). Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Bogotá, Colombia
1977. Professor. Graphic Design and Plastic Arts Faculty. Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Bogota Colombia
1982 Moves to Paris, France
1994 Leaves France for Colombia
1994 Dies from complications of HIV/AIDS in Bogota, Colombia.
SOLO EXHIBITS
2025 Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Survey Sector. Elvira Moreno Gallery. Miami Beach FL, USA
2024 What Belongs to Us, MAT. Museum of Art of Tolima, Colombia. In collaboration with GEM
2024 The Immemorial Luis Fernando Zapata, Galería Elvira Moreno, Bogotá, Colombia.
1996 Times of Silence, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia.
1994 Galería Garcés Velásquez, Madrid, Spain.
1994 ARCO 94, Sarcophagi, Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
1993 Galería Jenni Vilá, Cali, Colombia.
1993 Galería La Oficina, Medellín, Colombia.
1992 Atelirhorf, Bremen, Germany.
1991 Ritual Objects and Excavations, Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
1989 Galería Biervliet, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Shields,
1988 Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
1985 Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS
2026 Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, ICA-LA. Speaking in Tongues. Los Angeles,
California, USA
2025 Ficciones patógenas (Pathogenic Fictions): Seeing Otherwise. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
2024-25 Colección en escena #5. Fetiche: Material Conversations, Museum of Modern Art,
Bogotá,Colombia.
2023 Virosis: Art and HIV in Colombia, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia.
1991 Salon Découvertes, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
1991 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
1990 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia.
Colombian Art of the 1980s, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia.
1990 Galería Negret, Bogotá, Colombia.
National Artists' Salon, Bogotá, Colombia.
1989 Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
1989 Non-Conventional Pictorial Supports, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia.
1988 New Trends in Colombian Painting, Espace Lucernaire, Paris, France.
1987 La Colombie, Galerie Ecuries, Nîmes, France.
Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
1986 Abstract Moment, Espace Pierre-Cardin, Paris, France.
Small Formats, Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
1979 Second Young Art Salon, Medellín, Colombia.
1978 First Young Art Salon, Medellín, Colombia.
1977 Professors, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogotá, Colombia.
1976 Professors and Students, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogotá, Colombia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Tiempos De Silencio. Luis Fernando Zapata. Hard and soft-bound exhibition catalog. Illustrated in black and white and color. Edited by the Museum of Modern Art of Bogota (MAMBO). 1996.
Sarcofagos. Soft-bound exhibition catalog. Illustrated in color. Edited by Galeria Alonso Garces. 48 pages. 1994
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
2026 Bequeathed. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2025 National Center for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
2025 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid Spain
2025 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, USA
2024 Museum of the Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.
1994 Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia. MAMBO
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2025 Bob Fisher Collection, San Francisco, Karla Harwich Collection-NY, David Ramirez Collection
Mexico, and The Ernesto and Cecilia Poma Collection, Miami FL
2024 Ernesto Poma Family Collection-Miami FL
