Wilson Diaz Polanco

Born in Pitalito, Colombia, 1963 Lives and works in Cali, Colombia
Selected Biography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004	Comic, James Colman Gallery, London
2002	Long Live the Flesh, Galeria Valenzuela & Klenner Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota
2001	Sin Titulo (Untitled), Galeria Santa Fe, Bogota, Colombia
1999	Wilson Diaz, Museo de Arte Moderno de Barranquilla, Barranquilla, Colombia 'Retrospectiva', Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali , Colombia
1997	Tierra Caliente, Galeria Carlos A. Gonzalez, Bogota, Colombia
1996	Saltando Matones, Galeria El Museo, Bogota.
1994	No Salgas al Jardin, Galeria Santa Fe, Bogota, Colombia
1993	Los ultimos Juegos, Sala Alterna, Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional , Bogota Colombia
1992	Nuevos Desarrollos, Valenzuela & Klenner Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004	Video Rental (Helena Producciones), e-flux, New York Streets of Desire, Jump Ship Rat Gallery – Independent Liverpool Biennial Locombia, Space Gallery, London Musac Files, ARCO, Madrid
2003	Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. "Fragmentos de un video amoroso" a collaboration con Daniela Franco, Galeria Santa fe, Bogota, Colombia Rien a branler des chiens, performances in collaboration con Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Instituto de Mexico, Paris, France. L'artiste Portatif, Instituto de Mexico, Paris, France. De la representation a l'action, Le Plateau, Paris, France.
2002	De la representation a l'action, Mains D'oeuvres, Paris, France. Do it, e-flux.com, Internet VIII Bienal de Bogota, Museo de arte Moderno de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia. No Pasaran, Mois de la photo, Maison Rouge, Paris France. Visual Noise/Recent videos from Colombia, L.A. Freewaves, Los Angeles, USA.
2001	Da Adversidade Vivemos, ARC/ Musee Dart Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2000	Watamula Artist Workshop, Landhuis Knip, Curazao, Antillas Holandesas
1999	Infra Slim, Mayday Productions, New York, USA
1998	XXXVII Salon Nacional de Artistas, Corferias, Bogota, Colombia
1994	IV Bienal, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
1991	11 Artistas Colombianos, Museo PaVo das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brasil
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2004	Gasworks International Residency Programme (as part of Locombia a project organised by London based artist Fernando Arias), London
1999	450 KM, Curating Award, VIII Salon Nacional de Arte Joven, Galeria Santa Fe, Bogota.
1998	XXXVII Salon Nacional de Artistas, First Prize, Corferias , Bogota, Colombia

Diaz is founder and member of Helena Producciones a non-profit artists' association (NGO) interested in organizing and promoting alternative art practices and cultural events. Helena Producciones works within the relationship between the artistic production in and the social, economical and political Colombian context.