Erika Diettes
Erika Diettes was born in Cali, Colombia she currently lives and works in Bogota, Colombia. At the age of 15, Erika and her family moved to Washington DC where her father worked as a police attaché at the Colombian Embassy. Once settled into her new school, she began to study art, ceramics, theatre and photography.
Erika Diettes
- Born
- 1978 · Cali.
- Nationality
- Colombia
- Occupation
- artist · photographer
- Languages
- Spanish
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Erika Diettes was born in Cali, Colombia she currently lives and works in Bogota, Colombia. At the age of 15, Erika and her family moved to Washington DC where her father worked as a police attaché at the Colombian Embassy. Once settled into her new school, she began to study art, ceramics, theatre and photography.
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Her parents were supportive of Erika's artistic goals and her mother gifted Erika her first camera, which she used in creating her first book Silencios. She attended the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá where she received a degree in social communications, the Universidad de los Andes Bogota where she received her MA in Anthropology. Diettes is best known for her series of portraits titled Sudarios, this photography project is made up photographs of women who were forced to witness the torture of their loved ones during the Colombian conflict. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museums of Modern Art of Bogotá, Cali, Medellín and Barranquilla, the National Museum of Colombia, the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Santiago de Chile, Centro Cultural recoleta in Buenos Aires. In 2017, Diettes was awarded the Tim Heatherington Fellowship.
• Silencios (2005) • Rio Abajo (2008) • Noticia al aire...Memoria en vivo (2010) • Sudarios (2012)
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation artist. Institutional cataloguing adds that erika Diettes is recorded with the occupation photographer. The same evidence establishes that erika Diettes is recorded as a citizen of Colombia. Institutional cataloguing adds that erika Diettes is recorded with the gender female. Born on 1 January 1978.
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- Introducción. Erika Diettes, un compromiso con el arte y la sociedad, El Objeto como reliquia. La obra artística de Erika Diettes, 2025
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- Prácticas artísticas, agenciamiento y relicarios en la obra de Erika Diettes, El Objeto como reliquia. La obra artística de Erika Diettes, 2025
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- Pratiques artistiques, agentivité et reliquaires dans l’œuvre d’Erika Diettes, L'Objet comme relique, 2026
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- 1.Foster, Alasdair. Erika Diettes: A Poet of Grief and Humanity. ~ Talking Pictures ~. 2021-04-23.
- 2.Erika Diettes. LensCulture.
- 3.Méndez, María Gabriela. Erika Diettes: Transformar el duelo de un país. www.bienestarcolsanitas.com. May 9, 2018.
- 4.Erika Diettes. LensCulture.
- 5.Erika Diettes: Stories Told from the Threshold. www.slu.edu.
- 6.Davis, Laura. 20 shrouds follow the Moon as Cathedral's latest stunning artwork. Liverpool Echo. 8 March 2019.
- 7.Erika Diettes: Sudario #9. mfah.org.
- 8.No. 73. collections.sbma.net.
- 9.Erika Diettes: Tim Hetherington / World Press Photo Fellowship 2017. Tim Hethering Trust. April 26, 2017.
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Introducción. Erika Diettes, un compromiso con el arte y la sociedad, El Objeto como reliquia. La obra artística de Erika Diettes, 2025Crossref registry
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Prácticas artísticas, agenciamiento y relicarios en la obra de Erika Diettes, El Objeto como reliquia. La obra artística de Erika Diettes, 2025Crossref registry
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Pratiques artistiques, agentivité et reliquaires dans l’œuvre d’Erika Diettes, L'Objet comme relique, 2026Crossref registry
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