Salome Cosmique

• Website: www.salomecosmique.com

Salomé Cosmique is a Colombian artist, Trauma Informed Teaching Artist and curator currently residing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has a degree in visual arts from the University of Strasbourg in France. In 2012, (while in France) she obtained her National Diploma of Plastic Arts, with a concentration in sound arts from the School of Arts of the Rhine (Haut École D'art du Rhin) in Mulhouse, France. From 2017 to 2023, Salomé lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (USA) where she worked as a curator in Dissident Bodies, Dislocada/Dislocated and Love 4 Immigrants. In Philadelphia, she had exhibited in several individual and collective exhibitions.

For Salomé, the arts form a positive vehicle which can bring beneficial changes to society as well as the potential to transform lives, art as a healer, something she promotes in her artistic pursuits. Since 2012, her performance work has been inspired by colonialism, immigration, women's inequality and dissident bodies. Through her pictorial work the artist seeks to remember the memories of our ancestors. She has exhibited in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and India. She has been granted with: The Micro Grant of Bartol Foundation and Art and Change of Leeway Foundation.