BIO
Angie del Carmen Rangel Peñaloza was born on 7 November 1994 in the city of Barranquilla, Atlántico, in the country of the renowned Débora Arango who was the first Colombian painter to paint female nudes.
After finishing her high school studies at the Colegio Mayor de Barranquilla y del Caribe in 2012, she decided to start a Masters in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad del Atlántico, where Cecilia Porras, Alejandro Obregón, Enrique Grau, among others, attended her workshops.
In her search for her own style she entered the workshop of artists from whom she learned sculpture and drawing with live models every week which includes painting, photography and engraving that stood out with her experimentations in video art and intimate photography. She finished her degree at The Videns group “visual studies of the Caribbean”, where she carried out a project based on the theory of “jetztzeit” of Walter Benjamin that led her to exhibit in Barcelona, Spain with photographs of the Caribbean taken in the studio of her professor and mentor, Salwa Amastha, who is a winner of the atenea award in 1997 in the portrait category as best Latin American and Caribbean photography and medalist at the 35th world photography salon in Luxembourg in 1999.
Despite of unfortunate pandemic session she prepared herself at the Escuela Distrital de Artes de Barranquilla to deepen and fall in love with oil painting until she finished in 2022, year in which she obtained the degree in Academic Knowledge in Artistic Painting.
