Salome Cosmique
Salomé Cosmique is a Colombian artist, educator and curator currently residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (USA). 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. Upon finishing her studies, she moved to Puerto Rico, where she participated in several collective and individual exhibitions.
In 2017, Salomé moved to Philadelphia where she has continued to develop her artistic, curatorial and educational career. She is currently a curator of Dissident Bodies and Dislocada /Dislocated and works as an educator in different art projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 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, United States, Caribbean, South America and India.
Awarded Grants
2022
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Salome Cosmique's Voces de Inmigrantes is a series of art workshops as well as a public space exhibition where members of the immigrant community in South Philadelphia can share their stories and process their experiences of crossing the border. Through this project, Salome hopes to dignify the immigrant stories and call attention to the importance of migrants in South Philadelphia, while providing a safe space where community can gather and make art and express themselves.