Felipe Arturo is an artist and architect born in Bogotá in 1979. He studied architecture at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, earned a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York, and holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Évora in Portugal. 

His practice draws on elements from fields related to urbanism, architecture, and art, in connection with politics, history, geography, and economics. His works and projects mainly consist of sculptures, installations, photographs, and videos, based on concepts such as structure, sequence, and matter. At various points, he has explored the relationship between architecture and time, the traces of history in vernacular and popular architectures—often in tension with modern architecture—and has pursued an interdisciplinary approach to the colonial legacy in our world.

He has developed artistic and museographic projects in various countries and events such as the Colombian National Artists’ Salon (2013), the Luis Caballero Award (2016–2017), the Cartagena Biennial of Contemporary Art (2014), and the Lyon Biennale (2019). He has also carried out site-specific projects at the Bogotá Botanical Garden (2005), Fragmentos: Space for Art and Memory (2019), Plaza de Bolívar (2016), the Art Museum of the Bank of the Republic in Bogotá (2011); the Amparo Museum in Puebla (2010), La Tertulia Museum (2017), and Lugar a Dudas (2013) in Cali. He is currently an associate professor at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá.