KALEE GUAUTA

Contemporary Artist
Born in 1987, Fómeque, Colombia
Lives and works in Fómeque, Cundinamarca, Colombia

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Kalee Guauta is a self-taught Colombian contemporary artist whose practice explores memory, perception, vulnerability, faith, healing, and the human interior through painting. His work combines symbolism and surrealism with an ongoing investigation into crossmodality and sensory experience.

Since 2015, Guauta has investigated the relationships between the senses and the possibilities of expanding the pictorial experience through visual, auditory, tactile, spatial, gastronomic, and performative elements. Since 2018, mental and emotional processes have become an important dimension of his practice, leading to a body of work concerned with vulnerability, personal healing, and the construction of symbolic languages for experiences that are difficult to articulate through words.

His recent practice has incorporated faith, spirituality, darkness, light, and healing as fundamental dimensions of his artistic research. In 2025, he developed Sanar, an artistic project, and Tiniebla Luminosa, a pictorial series. In 2026, he presented Entre telas de sanación, a pop-up exhibition bringing together works from these and previous projects.

Since January 2026, Guauta has been developing an ongoing artistic investigation into silence, approaching it not only as the absence of speech, but as a practice of perception, introspection, presence, faith, and resistance to external noise.

SELECTED ARTISTIC PROJECTS & RESEARCH

2026–present

Silence
Ongoing artistic research exploring silence as a practice of perception, introspection, presence, faith, and resistance to external noise.

2026

Entre telas de sanación
Pop-up exhibition bringing together works from Depression Anatomy, No 7stoy solo, Sanar, and Tiniebla Luminosa.
Fómeque, Colombia.

2025

Sanar
Artistic project exploring healing, vulnerability, faith, and transformation through artistic practice.

2025

Tiniebla Luminosa
Pictorial series exploring darkness, faith, light, vulnerability, and spiritual transformation.

2019

Inside My Mind, 7 meses – 7 días – 7 horas
Multidisciplinary artistic project exploring mental, emotional, and perceptual processes through painting and writing.

2015–present

Crossmodality and Sensory Experience
Ongoing research into relationships between the senses and the expansion of the pictorial experience through visual, auditory, tactile, spatial, gastronomic, and performative elements.

SOCIAL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2017

Art by Smiles
Fundación Operación Sonrisa, Bogotá, Colombia

2016

Art by Smiles
Colegio SaludCoop Patio Bonito, Bogotá, Colombia

PUBLICATIONS

2019

Inside My Mind, 7 meses – 7 días – 7 horas
Independent publication, Bogotá, Colombia

ARTISTIC TIMELINE

2005

Beginning of artistic practice and development of an individual relationship with painting.

2008

Full dedication to artistic practice as a self-taught artist.

2015

Beginning of sustained research into crossmodality and sensory experience.

2018

Mental health and emotional experience become increasingly central to the artistic practice.

2019

Development and publication of Inside My Mind, 7 meses – 7 días – 7 horas.

2021–2024

Development of projects addressing perception, mental and emotional experience, vulnerability, memory, and interpersonal connection.

2025

Development of Sanar and Tiniebla Luminosa, marking a deeper incorporation of healing, faith, darkness, light, and spirituality into the practice.

2026

Presentation of Entre telas de sanación, a pop-up exhibition bringing together works from recent projects. Beginning of an ongoing artistic investigation into silence.