María Victoria Muñoz is a versatile Colombian-Swiss artist. Her B.A. in Plastic Arts was received from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Her project work was selected the best thesis in the year 2009 by the Faculty of Arts at Universidad de los Andes. “Oh””Culto” a installation and video performance was selected as one of the best six art projects by the Szpilman Award in Germany year 2010.
Maria Victoria’s work has been exhibited in India, Chiang Mai-Thailand, New York - USA, Buenos Aires - Argentina, Manila, Lipa, and Negros Island - Philippines, and Bogotá-Colombia. Refining her own visual and conceptual skills through experience, she works with a varied array of media. Using performance, photography, painting, writings, video and video installation, Muñoz Castillo reflects on how the memory works, the fragmentation of the self, the notions of appearance and identity, the body and the violence. She is deeply interested in understanding the experience of others through different contexts and situations. She questions everything that has been socially built as “normal” making a reflection about difference. Muñoz Castillo enjoys sharing her understanding of the world through her work and makes others question their own positions and naturalized assumptions.