Astrid González (b. 1994 Medellín, Colombia) studied a bachelor’s degree at Bellas Artes University Foundation in the city of Medellín, where she got an honors degree. She works from different disciplines such as video, photography and sculpture, addressing reflections on the historical processes of Afro-descendant communities in America. Her relationship with art also goes through research, for which she obtained a scholarship to study the Certificate of Afro-Latin American Studies, directed by A.L.A.R.I, Harvard University, Boston.
Her work has been exhibited in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Angola, Lisbon and Colombia, recently at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago de Chile, the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín, and at the Museum of Antioquia. She has been awarded in national grants such as the Premio Nuevos talentos en el arte de la Cámara de Comercio de Medellín; and in 2022 and 2023 she has been recognized with The Democracy Machine: Artists and Self-Governance in the Digital Age Fellowship, awarded by Eyebeam, New York.
