Miguel Moyano

Who is Miguel Moyano?

Miguel Moyano is a Colombian artist born in Bogotá, he studied at the National University of Colombia, specializing in three-dimensional drawing at the Schule für Gestaltung Bern, he took anatomy drawing classes with the Russian master Udo Siigg, engraving classes with master Luis Paz and painting classes with the Vatican miniaturist, Marisa Schmitt-Viassone.

Registered within realism, the drawing of Miguel Moyano is characterized by an obsessive search of perfection in form, in which the artist goes into the spirit of what it represents and reflects it in his work. His training in the German school is shown in a rigorous drawing, working on three recurring themes: objects, figure and landscape.

In 1974 he won the Prismacolor Drawing Award.

In 1993 he had his first exhibition in Switzerland and since then has participated in about fifty exhibitions in Colombia and abroad.

In 2002 he made a mural at the Children's Museum es:Museo de los Niños de Bogotá, in 2003 he won a national award in the Poetry Contest: Rest in Peace War, organized by the Casa de Poesia Silva and in 2005 he won the Salón Nacional de Agosto organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art.