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Patricia Bonilla is a Colombian visual artist currently residing in Marietta, GA.

Ms. Bonilla employs playful saturated colors, contemporary design, digital photography and collage. Glass, nature and urban signs are her favorite topics.

Through her painting collages Ms. Bonilla seeks to share joy that can be in life.

"Bonilla’s El Colombia color (1979-1985) is an acid and humoristic review of the Colombian women stereotypes. This series, participant in the Sao Paulo Biennial (1983) among other avant-garde events in that period, is an anticipated deconstruction of the roles assigned to women in our culture, from the self-portrait. El Colombia color had not been exhibited in three decades until now, forthwith shows a remarkable and surprising present: a dreamlike journey, occasionally caustic, but essentially warm by popular culture. In her roles as a virgin, hippie, widow, prostitute or heroine, or even dressed up as a man, selling raspaos, Bonilla anticipated the critical interpretation of gender roles in Colombian art, being without a doubt a pioneer, as she was in photographic experimentation, combining procedures and visual sources."