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Antonio Cortés González (b. 1999, Bogotá, Colombia)

Antonio Cortés González (Bogotá, 1999) is a Colombian artist
based between London and Bogotá. He came to sculpture through
architecture, trained at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and with
a MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London; from that
trajectory he retains a sensitivity to structure, weight, and space.
That double distance, between disciplines and between
geographies, defines both the edge and the vulnerability of his practice.

His work departs from the experience of growing up in Colombia:
visual culture, everyday objects, and memory as malleable materials.
Working with domestic objects, architectural fragments, and forms
associated with childhood, Antonio constructs situations where the
familiar begins to slip, stability fractures, and a sense of imminence
settles into the spaces we believed were safe.

In 2026 he was shortlisted for New Contemporaries, London;
shortlisted for the Kenneth Armitage Foundation Annual Sculpture
Prize; and received a public commission from Arts Council England
for an intervention in public space in Wandsworth, London. In 2025
he received the Premio Lápiz de Acero in Colombia; was selected to
exhibit at the Salone del Mobile in Milan; and undertook an artistic
residency at the Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, Antwerp.
His studies at the Royal College of Art were supported by
The Deputy Vice Chancellor’s International Scholarship, awarded
on academic merit. In 2022 he received the bronze medal at the
Annual Student Awards of the Colombian Society of Architects and
was a finalist in the Colombian Biennial of Architecture Students.

Contact
Antonio Cortés González
London - Bogotá
UK - Colombia

info@antoniocortesg.com

IG: @antoniocortesg

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