Ana María Gómez López
fine arts

Cooperation scholarship：
Funded by the Mondriaan Fund

Ana María Gómez López is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Cali, Colombia, currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice is centered on self-experimentation as an artistic method and archival research on histories of science and global legacies of utopian thought. First-hand engagement with museums, libraries, and scientific collections is the backbone of her artistic and pedagogical commitments. 
 
Ana María's work has been shown at the Stedelijk Museum, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Fonds d’art contemporain Genève, and the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, as well as in film festivals such as DOK Leipzig and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. She was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and has been awarded fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, International Institute for Social History, Osler Library for History of Medicine, and Max Planck Institute for History of Science. Ana María holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she was an Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Institute for Ideas and the Imagination at Columbia University in Paris. She currently teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. 
 
During the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa Residency in Kyoto, Ana María will research perliculture in the Keihanshin metropolitan area and the overall Kansai region—a location of significant historic and present-day importance for this Japanese industry. Equally, the traditional role of pearls in Shinto and Zen Buddhist traditions will also be examined across many of Kyoto’s shrines and temples that connect this spherical gem to the spiritual realm or animistic life-forces. This two-fold dimension of pearls—as a form of heritage artisanry and an object of devotion—will decidedly inform her approach to Mouthpiece, a new artwork centered on the creation of an artificial pearl with her mouth.