Pedro Gómez Egaña is a Colombian artist born in 1976, who is currently based in Norway.
Trained both as a composer and visual artist at Goldsmiths College and the Bergen National Academy of Arts, his practice varies from sculpture, to stage performance, video, installation and sound works. Gómez-Egaña’s recent output could be seen as an exploration of motion in relation to fundamental forces like gravity, repetition, accidentality, or anxiety. His pieces often include compositions of text and phonographic material, as well as mechanical or video animations of simple drawings. Although his practice involves multiple technical resources and artistic disciplines it appears to construct worlds of particular simplicity.
From 2003 to 2006 Gómez-Egaña carried out a 3 year research project on the relationship between musicality and physicality sponsored by the British Council of England that rendered a variety of collaborative and solo exhibitions, performances and papers. He has been involved with art, music, and dance venues, exhibitions and festivals such as the Purcell Room, Chisenhale Dance Space, Brussels Biennial 2008, FACT Liverpool, Rencontre International d’Art Performance de Quebec, Multipistes, 66East Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Art London, DareDare Montreal, Tanz Quartier Wien, BMIC London cutting edge series, L'appartement 22 Morocco and Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien, amongst others.
Gómez-Egaña has been guest and resident lecturer at the MA programme in visual arts at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Goldsmiths College London, and the Laban Centre London. He is currently research fellow at the Bergen Academy of the Arts, Norway.
Amongst the awards and grants received are the Bildende Kunstneres Norway Award for "Swimming Sideways" in 2008, and for “Birds” in 2007, a 3 year research stipend for the project "Calliraphies" 2008-2011, the Performing Rights Society of England Creative Collaborations Award for “Mahler’s 5ths” in 2004, and the Colombian Ministry of Culture Research Grant for “Cunicula” in 2002.