MEND THE ROOTS,
TEND THE FRUITS.
All of our art supports the artists and the
nonprofits that protect the source of our inspiration:
the communitites and their land.
nonprofits that protect the source of our inspiration:
the communitites and their land.
OUR ART
PRINTS SOUNDSCAPES VIDEO GIFTS
OUR ORIGINS
THE COMMUNITITES AND THEIR LAND
WHAT WE REPRESENT
WELCOME
Casa Jaguar is a contemporary multidisciplinary arts studio based in Barcelona.
We are a collective of Latinamerican artists in diaspora, we are visual artists, musicians, writers, illustrators, photographers, philosophers, filmmakers and ecologists. We seek to celebrate the history and diversity of Latinamerica through contemporary art and audiovisual technology. The objective of Casa Jaguar studio is to showcase our love for this continent’s art history as well as its peoples and landscapes.
OUR TEAM
IVONNE PORTILLO
Creative co-director Plastic and visual art
Colombian plastic artist based in Barcelona, where she has trained for more than 9 years in techniques including printmaking, engraving and painting connecting with her memory and latinamerican roots. She has participated in more than fifteen collective exhibitions with different mediums including painting, printmaking and artistʼs books.
GABRIELA SEPÚLVEDA
Creative co-director Project management
Philosopher trained in London and based in Barcelo na, where she is a software programmer. She has been director and coordinator of art projects for latinamerican communities since 2018. Her curiosity has taken her through a path of multidisciplinary projects structured from creativity and based on communication, logic and art.
ALBA MAURY
Photographer – Social media
Photographer based in Barcelona who specializes in analog and experimental photography. Fine Arts student, she manages the artistic archive and social media of this project.
ANA MARÍA ZABALA GÓMEZ
Wrtier and researcher
Human ecologist born in Colombia and based in Maine, United States. Her writing seeks to situate readers in Latinamerican political history. In Casa Jaguar, she carries out research projects that give the a social, cultural and political context to the works.
JUAN FELIPE ARCE BAYONA
Soundscapist
Colombian-Mexican sound artist, producer, composer and tonmeister who lives and works in Copenhagen with his production company Sound and Vision. Pape developed and composed “El Origen Sagrado de una Persona,” (The Sacred Origin of a Person) the soundscape for Casa Jaguar Studioʼs documentary: “Cʼundua.”
AWARDS
TEPUY Honorable Mention
The work “Tepuy” from the Achikanain series received an honorable mention in the “Emanate” exhibition of the Envision Arts Show at the Colab Gallery of the University of North Texas.
BARTOLINA SISA First Place
The painting “Bartolina Sisa” from the Mujeres Indelebles series won the first place award at the “Magnum Opus” exhibition of the Sacramento Fine Arts Center in California, USA.