Kami Rey Vegas

Kami Rey Vegas, Colombian artist with fundamentally self-taught training in plastic arts and musical training at the Francisco Cristancho Camargo institutes in Bogotá, Bellas Artes in Medellín, and the Conservatory of the National University of Colombia. He began his public artistic career during childhood, with the creation of the image designs and exterior sign for “El Goce Pagano,” a pioneering cultural institution in the dissemination of Afro-Antillean music in Bogotá and Colombia. From his beginnings, Kami Rey Vegas showed a deep interest in the possible artistic synthesis between music and painting. In the late 1980s, due to personal and cultural interest, he embarked on an international journey of more than ten years through South America, Israel, and Europe during which he matured numerous aspects of his artistic interest. He returned to his country in the early 2000s to continue with the pictorial work of his experiences, emphasizing his primary taste for zoomorphic figures and the graphic appeal to humans who produce music.