About Melissa Aristizábal
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2012 - 2015
La Salle College Instute
2010 - 2012
potificia universidad javeriana
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Event: Obsidian
Dates: 15 Nov 2025 - 15 Nov 2025
OBSIDIAN is a FORM event — a curated art experience by Public Display Agency that blends design, dialogue, and discovery. This one-night showcase unites visual artists, designers, and makers in an immersive, gallery-style setting at Avant Garde Gallery. OBSIDIAN invites guests to slow down, engage, and experience art in a new way. Admission is RSVP-based and pay-what-you-want, making it accessible while supporting artists directly. We believe art helps people find meaning, belonging, and community. Through events like OBSIDIAN, Public Display Agency brings artists and audiences together to feel seen, supported, and part of something bigger.
Event: Underground
Dates: 29 Jun 2024 - 29 Jul 2024
Virtual group exhibition
Event: Underground
Dates: 29 Jun 2024 - 29 Jul 2024
Virtual group exhibition
Event: afterlight
Dates: 22 Apr 2021 - 22 May 2021
The artists in Afterlight, having experienced a year of containment and turmoil, soften the shutters of their periphery. Memory and body become vast landscapes in flux, and each artwork an exorcism of the personal-liminal. This vantage courts disruption to varying degrees of palpability throughout the exhibition, the goal being to interrogate both the subtle and robust ways we shift our relationships to constructs that once felt immutable. Working through the social within a domestic setting cultivates a double interior, or space within a space, where knowing and forgetting somersault in and out of one another toward new futures.
In their ability to scrutinize intimate patterns, symbols and materials, these artists are able to become poetically expansive. They invite the viewer to enter into new timescapes where questions of value are raised and where significance is constantly being negotiated. As the sepic under layers of their work lay foundations onto which we apply.
Biography
Melissa Aristizábal is a Colombian artist and designer based in Toronto whose work reimagines sacred and multicultural imagery through the lens of ancient cultures. Her practice explores the intersection of contemporary aesthetics, cultural influences, and storytelling, creating pieces that connect with communities on a deeper level. She views art as a tool for dialogue, healing, and connection, especially in urban environments. Blending figurative, organic, and abstract forms, Melissa often draws inspiration from sacred art, Jungian archetypes, and the feminine psyche. Themes of spirituality, transformation, and cultural heritage are central to her work.
With a background in Arts and Design, she has developed a multidisciplinary career spanning ceramics, large-scale mural installations, oil painting, textiles, and screen printing. Her projects and exhibitions have taken place in France, Chile, Mexico, the United States, and Canada, including collaborations with Diesel, Swatch, and Motorola, as well as a feature at Field Projects Gallery in New York.
Community engagement is central to Melissa’s practice. Through murals and participatory projects, she creates inclusive experiences that celebrate cultural diversity while inviting dialogue, healing, and reflection in public space.
