Upcoming Exhibitions

Nuevos Horizontes, Angie Rangel, 2026 — Oil on canvas, 20 × 20 cm

"Nuevos Horizontes" in 20 × 20 cm format will be part of the exhibition "The MEAM Hall: 8th edition", taking place at the MEAM museum (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern) in Barcelona from July 10 to November 1, 2026 and at La Zona Gallery in Madrid from November 12 to 29, 2026. The opening dates are:

· Friday July 10, 2026 at MEAM Barcelona (certificate ceremony).
· Thursday November 12, 2026 at La Zona Gallery, Madrid.

ME AM MUSEU EUROPEU D'ART MODERN
FUNDACIÓ DE LES ARTS I ELS ARTISTES
Current Series

TAXONOMY
OF MEMORY

2025

Watercolor works exploring memory, repetition, femininity, and affective archives.

Taxonomy of Memory: Near Abstraction — Watercolor on cotton paper, 2025 Discover the Series →

UNCOOL ARTIST
RESIDENCY

Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, 2025

My residency at Uncool Artist, based at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was transformative on both a personal and artistic level. During this period, I became deeply aware of new ethical frameworks in contemporary art production, and more importantly, of how my work is understood within a global context.

During the final quarter of the fall–winter season, I developed a series of watercolors based on the textiles used in my childhood dresses from the late 20th century. These works function as a subtle, almost forensic reading of those garments: their materials, their use, and their journey.

This body of work combines symbols with strong traditional significance with individual human gestures. During the open studios at Uncool Gallery and the final presentation, the drawings activated a process of reconstructing past narratives.

"Her paintings act like an archive of personal experiences, memories, and desires. Rangel blends elements of folklore, art history, and family narrative to construct compositions rich with her own lore, welcoming viewers into the period rooms of her mind which encourage us all to reflect on our own constellations of personal inspirations."

— Julian J. Howard, Curator

Selected Works

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The Wait — Mixed media on canvas
The Wait Mixed media, 100 × 100 cm
White Dress with Botanical Patterns — Oil on canvas
White Dress with Botanical Patterns Oil on canvas, 150 × 150 cm

Encounters (Encuentros)

There is a Greek myth that places the origin of painting in the hands of a woman. In Pliny the Elder's Natural History, there is an account about the origin of painting in which a maiden named Kora traces the outline of her lover's shadow before he leaves for war. Whether the myth is true or only legend, what is undeniable is that painting has always been a worker of memory, helping preserve what we consider of great value. Vincent wanted to preserve his boots, Séraphine Louis wanted to preserve her flowers, and Modigliani his beloved women.

Angie Rangel, who begins her path in art through painting, integrates it into her daily life, studies it, and approaches its enigmas in order to crystallize, through it, the moments that have marked her process as an artist and as a woman who has traveled through different places, among them her city of origin, Barranquilla. Thus, in her proposal we see a mixture of dreams and realities that highlight the architectures and ornaments of her former homes, evoking life alongside her grandmother, her childhood, the warm climate, and that Macondo-like atmosphere that merges with a new way of life through art, where unsettling pieces appear that evoke Jeff Koons or Botero, hinting at her arrival in the city of Medellín. It is precisely this that conjures the encounters that run through her life and her work, and that, like a "diary," she records in words on the back of her paintings, so that each experience remains contained in both text and image, fulfilling the full sense of evocation.

There is also, in her work, a special fondness for paintings of women. Another latent encounter with her femininity, with her ideals and with other women, where she explores with them her delight in clothing, attire, and the fusion between painting and fashion, reminding us of the exuberant stage costumes portrayed by painters of past centuries, dressing them in garments full of flowers, textures, ruffles, and, once again, memories. These encounters are the meaning of this exhibition, and they are the becoming of her life as an artist and as a woman in a city that inspires movement, femininity, and art.

— Úrsula Ochoa, Master in Aesthetics, Art curator and critic
Angie Rangel

ANGIE RANGEL

Angie Rangel (b. 1994, Barranquilla, Colombia) is a visual artist based in Los Altos, California. Her work explores memory, femininity, and domestic archives through painting, drawing, and textile-influenced processes. Using childhood dresses, household objects, and sewing gestures, she examines how intimate experiences and handmade practices operate as emotional records and shape identity within contemporary Latin American contexts. Her works often function as visual diary entries, combining notes, image fragments, and close observation to connect personal narratives with broader social histories.

Rangel holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad del Atlántico, with additional training at the Escuela Distrital de Artes de Barranquilla (EDA). She strengthened her institutional and curatorial perspective through the program How to Organize an Art Exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM).

Her trajectory includes participation in Esencia Caribe, a research seedbed on Caribbean memory, as well as collaborative projects with Dora Franco + Femmes Photographers. In 2024, she presented her first solo exhibition, Encuentros, in Colombia, and later exhibited in Spain and the United States.

In 2025, she completed an artist residency in Brooklyn, New York, where she deepened her research on tradition, digital identity, and domestic space. She also engaged with historical dress archives at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute and continued studio practice at the Art Students League of New York.

Her current work focuses on watercolor series centered on childhood dresses and domestic objects. Her paintings will be on view at the MEAM in Barcelona and La Zona Gallery in Madrid from July through November 2026. Alongside her pictorial practice, Rangel is exploring ultra-contemporary territories—Web 3.0, digital art, and textile-based work—expanding her visual map across analog and digital realms.

MONUMENTAL
SCULPTURE

Conceptual prototype for a monumental sculpture: a crocodile with monarch butterfly wings. A study in magical realism, cultural memory, and the intersection of Caribbean mythology with contemporary sculptural practice.

3D render of crocodile with butterfly wings sculpture

Exhibitions

081 Gallery
2025 El Retiro, Antioquia

081 Gallery

Encuentros
2024 Medellín, Colombia

Encuentros

Bolero de Ravel
2023 Barranquilla, Colombia

Bolero de Ravel

Esencia Caribe
2018 Museo del Atlántico

Esencia Caribe

News

Angie Rangel at Murano glassmaking workshop

Angie Rangel during a glassmaking workshop at Mazzega Murano Glass Factory, Murano Island, Venice. February 2026.

2026

MEAM

Exhibition at MEAM (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern), Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.

2026

Artsy

Presentation with Uncool Gallery.

Encuentro DATARTE

Encuentro DATARTE at Sala de Arte Bancolombia, Bogotá, Colombia. January 2026.

Ultra-Contemporary

DIGITAL
EXPLORATIONS

Ultra-Contemporary

AI-generated video works exploring the migration of pictorial language into digital realms — where painting, Web 3.0, and generative processes converge.

Surrealist Cityscape
Butterfly Migration
Lobster Dream