# Olga de Amaral | Official Site > Olga de Amaral is a Colombian artist whose woven works merge fiber, gold, and abstraction into luminous sculptural presences. ## Pages - [Sitemap](https://olgadeamaral.art/sitemap/) - [Políticas](https://olgadeamaral.art/politicas/): Política de cookies Políticas de Uso Página Web Política de Tratamiento de Datos - [Política de Tratamiento de Datos](https://olgadeamaral.art/politicas/politica-de-tratamiento-de-datos/): POLÍTICA DE PRIVACIDAD, TRATAMIENTO Y PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS PERSONALES DE NUMENA: NUMENA S.A.S., (en adelante “Nosotros” o “NUMENA”) es respetuosa de los datos personales e información que le suministran sus clientes actuales, pasados y potenciales; sus aliados comerciales, sus visitantes, proveedores, colaboradores, trabajadores y cualquier otro tercero (en adelante, los Titulares). 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Permiten, entre otras, almacenar y recuperar información sobre los hábitos de navegación de un usuario o de su equipo. Estas pueden clasificarse en las siguientes categorías: ¿Cómo se […] - [Videos](https://olgadeamaral.art/videos/) - [Publications](https://olgadeamaral.art/publications/): Árbol N, 2016. 50×200 cm; linen, gesso, acrylic and gold leaf. Weaving is a craft that involves essential aspects of human beings and their cultures. Throughout time, it has been a cosmic metaphor of man’s destiny and his relation to the gods. For the Kogi, thread is man’s umbilical cord to the Great Mother; it is also measure, tension and contact between man and nature. To weave is to speak with the Mother, with oneself, to meditate. The loom is a map of man and of the world, a plane of the universe; the four sides of the vertical frame […] - [Artworks](https://olgadeamaral.art/artworks/): Soles A, B y C, 2014. 60×60cm each one; linen, gesso, acrylic and gold leaf. Núcleo 2 (azul), 2015. 130×180 cm; linen, gesso, acrylic, Japanese paper and gold leaf. Amaral is an important figure in the development of post-war Latin American abstraction. Her creation of “off stretcher” works, using non-traditional materials, acquires greater historical resonance with each passing year.  Understanding and being understood is an important part of her work. Through a complex system based on artisanal technique, she finds answers to inner questions. As a result, Amaral’s work is deeply driven by her exploration of Colombian culture and threads […] - [Sales](https://olgadeamaral.art/sales/): Olga de Amaral: el manto de la memoria 2015​ Luxury edition printed in Spain. 24 × 30 cm, 264 pages. Editions in Spanish ISBN: 978-958-58126-0-4 Olga de Amaral’s work reveals this influence. However, unlike so many artists, she does not approach the problem from the point of view of painting, nor does she seek the solution on the object’s side or through volume. Rather, she begins with the material itself —the painting’s support, the canvas, the fabric or texture— and develops its possibilities in the direction of painting and sculpture. Unfortunately art history has a tendency of taking a specific […] - [Políticas de Uso Página Web](https://olgadeamaral.art/politicas/politicas-de-uso-pagina-web/): Las interacciones, acceso, consulta, comunicaciones, operaciones y demás acciones que se realicen a través del Sitio Web  https://olgadeamaral.art/ (en adelante “El Sitio Web”) se sujetarán a la presente Política de Uso (en adelante “la Política de Uso del Sitio Web”). El Sitio Web es propiedad de NUMENA S.A.S., (en adelante “Nosotros” o “Olgadeamaral.Art”), con NIT: 901.375.199-4 y domicilio en Bogotá D.C. El Sitio Web es operado por Nosotros directamente.  La presente Política aplica a todas las personas que accedan al Sitio Web (en adelante “Usuario” o “Usted”). Al ingresar, consultar, navegar o usar el Sitio Web, usted reconoce que ha […] - [Contact](https://olgadeamaral.art/contact/): For further inquiries about gallery representation, sales, upcoming exhibitions and current news please feel free to contact us.  diegoamaral@numena.co valentinaamaral@numena.co Instagram - [News](https://olgadeamaral.art/news/): Sotir a Paris · Olga de Amaral: an XXL retrospective for this abstract artist at the Fondation Cartier, October 25, 2024. Observer · Olga de Amaral Connects Ancestral Roots and Modernism at Fondation Cartier, October 25, 2024. Art In America · Olga de Amaral Renders Delicate Threads Emphatically Monumental, October 25, 2024. FAD Magazine · Fondation Cartier to open Olga de Amaral’s first major retrospective in Europe, 23 August 2024. Forbes · Art Basel Paris Art Fair Ends On A High Note, October 23, 2024. W Magazine · James Turrell, Tina Barney & More of the Can’t-Miss Shows at Art […] - [Bibliography](https://olgadeamaral.art/bibliography/): (Actualization 19-02-2019) Olga de Amaral Olga de Amaral in her study «2nd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles 1976», British Crafts Centre, Londres, 1976, catálogo ilustrado de la exposición. «A la conquista de China», en: Cromos, Bogotá, Colombia, julio, 2005. Amaral, Diego. «Olga de Amaral: Boundaries», Latin American Masters, Los Ángeles. Amaral Editores, Bogotá, 2012, catálogo ilustrado de la exposición. __________. «Olga de Amaral: entre pueblos», Galerie Jean-Jacques Dutko, París. Amaral Editores, Bogotá, 2010, catálogo ilustrado de la exposición. __________. «Olga de Amaral: Resonancias», Colombian Embassy in Portugal. Amaral Editores, Bogotá, septiembre, 2005, catálogo ilustrado de la exposición. __________. «Olga de […] - [Biography](https://olgadeamaral.art/biography/): (Actualization 03-06-2025) Olga de Amaral Olga de Amaral Olga de Amaral born in 1932 in Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá.   EDUCATION 1951-52 Architectural Design, Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Bogotá, Colombia. 1954-55 Postgraduate studies, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA.   PRIZES, AWARDS, AND RECOGNITIONS 2022 Order of Boyacá in Knight Degree from the President of the Republic of Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, August 2022. Honorary Master of Fine Arts Degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Art Museum, May 2022. 2019 Estela 47 selected to represent the image for the VIII Bogotá Sacred Music […] - [About](https://olgadeamaral.art/about/): Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Olga de Amaral studied textiles at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Michigan. Amaral is a renowned artist whose technique, which incorporates fiber, paint, gesso and precious metals, transforms the two-dimensional textile structure into sculptural presences that seamlessly blend art, craft, and design. In their engagement with materials and processes, her works become essentially unclassifiable and self-reflexively authentic.Amaral is an important figure in the development of post-war Latin American abstraction. Her creation of “off stretcher” works, using non-traditional materials, acquires greater historical resonance with each passing year. Understanding and being understood is an important part of […] - [Home](https://olgadeamaral.art/): The vitality of a rock is its presence. —Olga de Amaral ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/olgadeamaral.art/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)