Colombia
Medellin 1979. Master of Fine Arts, Utrecht School of Arts,The Netherlands. He obtained his degree in visual arts from the University of Antioquia in 2003. Winner of the Visual Arts category in the "Referentes" Awards for Art and culture 2018, awarded by the Medellin’s municipality. He is co-founder and member of the cultural corporation El puente_lab, cultural activation laboratory; through which he has participated in various projects and workshops with international artists in the city of Medellín; and several exhibitions in Italy, Austria, Lithuania, Turkey and at the XIII Havana Biennial. In 2004 he participated in an artistic residence UNIDEE Fondazione Pistoletto University of Ideas in Biella Italy, and has continued to cooperate with the institution in design and art projects. Vásquez's work has been developing since 2003 taking part in numerous exhibitions throughout the country, including the Regional Artists Salon, Curatorship: "Investments + Art + Exchanges + Transactions", Medellín and Armenia. The 42 National Artists Salon in Barranquilla and Cartagena. "surreptitious Covert Stories" In the Banasta Gallery. In the exhibition "Antioquias", Diversity and Imaginaries of Identity, Museo de Antioquia.
He is currently Director of the Paul Bardwell Gallery of Contemporary Art at the Centro Colombo Americano and is in charge of the Deseartepaz program of the same institution.