My artistic practice explores the human interior through painting, focusing on memory, perception, vulnerability, faith, healing, and the experiences that shape our understanding of ourselves.
I began painting as a way of communicating sensations and experiences that were difficult to express through words. Over time, this personal necessity developed into a broader investigation into how images can become spaces of encounter between the visible and the emotional.
Since 2015, I have developed research into crossmodality and the relationships between the senses, expanding the pictorial experience through colour, texture, symbolism, sound, movement, and other artistic disciplines. My work seeks not only to be observed, but to generate personal and sensory experiences in which each viewer can connect with their own memories and emotions.
Since 2018, my practice has increasingly explored mental and emotional processes, vulnerability, and healing. In recent years, faith has become an essential dimension of my artistic language, allowing me to reflect on darkness, transformation, hope, and the possibility of light within human experience.
Projects such as "Sanar" and the pictorial series "Tiniebla Luminosa" emerge from this exploration, approaching darkness not as an absence, but as a space where confrontation, transformation, and light can coexist.
My current research focuses on silence as an artistic and personal practice. Since 2026, I have been investigating silence not simply as the absence of sound, but as a way of perceiving, reflecting, and resisting the constant noise of contemporary life.
Through painting, I seek to create spaces where the internal and external worlds meet, allowing the artwork to become a bridge between memory, perception, faith, and human experience.
Kalee Guauta (Fómeque, Colombia, 1987) is a self-taught Colombian contemporary artist whose practice explores the human interior through painting, with particular attention to memory, perception, vulnerability, faith, and personal healing.
He began his artistic practice in 2008, developing a personal visual language rooted in symbolism, surrealism, and the exploration of emotional experience. Since 2015, he has pursued an ongoing investigation into crossmodality and the relationships between the senses, expanding his practice beyond the purely visual through the integration of music, gastronomy, dance, performance, and other sensory elements.
From 2018 onward, his work has increasingly focused on mental and emotional processes, leading to projects including Inside My Mind, Pleasure Synesthesia, Depression Anatomy, and No 7stoy solo. In recent years, his practice has incorporated a deeper exploration of faith, darkness, healing, and spirituality, reflected in projects such as Sanar and Tiniebla Luminosa.
His work has been exhibited in galleries, cultural institutions, embassies, fairs, and independent spaces in Colombia, Argentina, France, Spain, Italy, and the United States. His exhibitions include Aqua Art Miami, Arte en la Red at Casa de América in Madrid, Passepartout at the Colombian Consulate in Paris, and several solo exhibitions in Bogotá.
In 2019, he published Inside My Mind, 7 meses – 7 días – 7 horas, extending his artistic research into literature.
Since January 2026, Guauta has been developing an ongoing artistic investigation into silence as a practice of perception, introspection, and resistance to external noise.