"I understood early in my life that people is more important than objects, and that Art is not about things but about people. Art is about what we are, what we say, what we feel and what we think. This premise brings the question of the purpose of Art.
Is Art valuable for the tangible beautiful objects we can make or is it valuable for what these objects can do to us?"
Short Biography
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Sergio Nieto is an artist interested in various languages from poetry to music to visual arts.
He received his BFA in Visual Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana where he explored Video Art, Installation, Drawing and Painting as means to describe his experience, living in one of the major cities of South America. Bogotá has strongly influenced his work and his understanding about the urban experience, most of his pieces depict dichotomies and contrasts between public and private spaces, individuality and collectivity, nature and industry, spirituality and pragmatism.
As a teacher, he has guided his courses into the development of diverse visual and media languages, including the formation of critical thinking, questioning the relationship between nature and society, the relevance of human rights, the value of communicating emotions and the significance of building trust.
In 2010 he founded an organization for human development, entitled ‘Tetracto’. With this company he has contributed in the making of diverse works from local short films to tenders of the local government to social change programs.
His passion for education has grown over time, which brought him to the U.S. to pursue a Master Degree in Media Arts Production at the University at Buffalo, supported by the Fulbright Program and the Fundación Universitaria Panamericana.
