Federico URIBE

BIOGRAPHY

Federico Uribe is a Colombian artist, born in Bogotá, who lives and works in Miami. Over the past decade, his work has gained international recognition, particularly in the United States, and has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions. His sculptures are included in multiple institutional and private collections. Uribe’s practice resists conventional classification, drawing equally from sculpture, painting, and classical art traditions while engaging a distinctly contemporary material language.

TECHNIQUE

Uribe creates meticulously constructed sculptures using everyday and industrial objects such as bullet shells, colored pencils, shoelaces, electrical wires, pins, books, and discarded materials. Rather than modeling or carving, he builds his works through repetitive weaving, assembling, and layering processes that emphasize structure, rhythm, and form.

By transforming functional objects into animals, plants, and natural forms, Uribe explores the relationship between humanity and nature. Materials often associated with consumption or destruction are reconfigured into life-affirming images, creating a deliberate tension between medium and subject. Through this process, his work invites viewers to reconsider the symbolic and aesthetic potential of familiar objects, emphasizing beauty, resilience, and renewal.