I’m Pamela Calero, a Communication Artist & Visual Storyteller. I give visual form to ideas to simplify projects that think outside the box.
My multidisciplinary approach uses storytelling as a pillar to go beyond the normative & communicate by providing valuable insights and making the message not only informative but also visually engaging and accessible to diverse audiences.
My work is about empowering people, projects, brands, and ideas, through creativity & depth.
This means I spend time and energy researching and conceptualizing a project to let its essence embody a concept, which in turn shapes the form that suits that idea best.
I’m an artist who uses soft techniques to talk about complex topics. I do this through poetry, an art and a method that weaves my creative practice and allows me to say complex things in simple(r) ways.
I like to defamiliarize the familiar, to perform archaeological digs on words and ideas to discover what lies beneath, and in doing so, remove the negative prefix from (in)visible and let connexions be seen.
My work revolves around conceptual-linguistic games, the relationship between life, fiction, and normalcy because there is no such thing as normal.
What I like about points of view is their ability to change. Lateral thinking and a critical, curious mind allow us to look at what lies in front with different eyes
I turn the invisible into something other people can see. I craft & tell stories using skills I’ve acquired studying Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Masters in Philosophy & Art Theory, Photography & Editorial Design, Creative Illustration, & courses in Art Therapy.
Approaching solutions with wit allows me to create and live the creative life I love as I strive to make it a total work of art(gesamtkunstwerk). Why? Because art has healed me. Being healed implies being vulnerable. Everyone has recovered at a certain point from something, from a paper cut to a less anatomical wound.
I was born in Cali, Colombia. I write, draw, live and create in Barcelona at the intersections of the personal and the global, the anecdotal and the conceptual
I am a Chapter Director of Ladies, Wine & Design Barcelona (a non-profit where we organize monthly events for creative minds to empower women & non-binary creatives.
My work is a bridge to look at what lays in front with different eyes & let new connections be seen.
EXHIBITIONS
Communication / Incommunication Group show
+ Finalist in the Makma International Poster Award Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernism Valencia, Spain. 2020
Time and Space
Group Show
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
(CICA Museum)
Gimbo, Soth Korea
Llibres d’artista
Group Show
+ Finalist in the Premio Art Byblio Award
Biblioteca Joan Maragall
Espai Zero/Llotja
Barcelona
A Tus Pies
Group Show
Fàbrica Moritz
Barcelona
Se Alquila / Margen
Group Show
Teatro Auditorio del Recinto Ferial
de la casa de Campo de Madrid
Entrecot
Happening Performance
Experimenta Málaga
Me/ Moi/ Yo
GroupShow
Galería Neebex
Bogotá, Colombia
LA VITRINA
GroupShow
Flora Arts + Natura
Bogotá, Colombia
De Cada 11
GroupShow
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá (MAC)
Bogotá, Colombia
Libro Árbol
GroupShow
Plataforma Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
AWARDS
Arqueología del dolor
Poetry Book Publication
Winner of Editorial Lectio’s
Call for Poetry Contest
Mexico DF, Mexico
First Place Winner
of the mural contest for Jamboree
Jazz Club in Barcelona.
TALKS
Presentation at the Camps, (In)justices, Solidarity in the Americas Conference University of Graz, Austria.
Paper Presentation
at The Power of Language.
3rd International Conference
of English and American Studies
Shkodër, Albania
Paper Presentation
at Transverberations: Iberian Mysticism
in a Global Context.
University of Manchester
Photo Conference Presentation
Photography as a registration
tool and as a language for the un-resolved
Fotoconexió
Artistic Circle of Sant Lluc
Conference Presentation
at the second session of the Cultural Studies & Psychoanalysis Workshop: Judith Butler in Barcelona.
Instituto Universitario de Cultura de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra &
Sección Clínica de Barcelona
(Instituto del Campo Freudiano)
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Master in Creation and Management of Creative Businesses
Empresas Creadoras
(Online) 2022
Master in Creative Illustration
EINA · Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona. 2019
Art Therapy Foundations Course Metàfora Centre d’Estudis d’Arteterapia Barcelona. February — May 2017
Master in Photography & Editorial Design
EINA · Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona. 2016
Master in Comparative Studies in Art, Literature & Philosophy
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. 2015
Bachelor in Graphic Design
(Double degree)
IED Instituto Europeo di Design Barcelona
Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano Barcelona & Bogota. 2014
Bachelor in Fine Arts
Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano Bogota, Colombia. 2013
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Women of Type Book
Selected work and feature
Exponer es más que poner una obra en la pared
Blog Article for SHIFTA
Girls From Today
(te) Queremos publicarte II
Acción Planetaria
Arte solidario: nuevo mural de la Clínica Solidaria
EINA Blog
Pamela Calero presents "Social Media Will Tear Us Apart"
Quan arribin els marcians (TV3)
L'impacte de la història, l'atenció raptada i Kiko Amat
The Poetry Method is an idea, a strategy, a method, and a way of seeing the world.
The Poetry Method vertebrates my Art & Creative Services to help people, brands & projects, get to the core of what they want to communicate, with wit & ease.
