Biography
Pedro Cabrera is a Colombian artist from Ibagué, Tolima. His practice moves between painting, sculpture and public mural, with a trajectory recorded from 1977 in salons, museums and galleries in Colombia and abroad.
His early exhibitions include the Salón 20 and Galería de la Independencia in Santa Fe de Bogotá (1977), the Museo de Arte Nacional and Museo Zea in Medellín (1978), and Arte Colombiano del Siglo XX at the Centro Colombo Americano (1982). Through the 1980s and 1990s he showed steadily in Ibagué and Bogotá, including the Salón Nacional de Artistas (1994) and a wide European and American circuit in 1995: Linz, Frankfurt, Kraków, Warsaw, Vienna, Basel, Zurich, Tel Aviv, Havana and New York.
In 1992 his painting Apología al Deporte was selected for the postage stamp honoring the XXV Olympic Games in Barcelona. Later public works include the sculpture Instrumento de Sol in Plaza Murillo Toro, Ibagué (2012), Signos y Formas in Pitalito (2019), and murals for civic buildings across Tolima — among them the Palacio de Justicia de Ibagué, hospitals, town halls and the Concha Acústica.
He has also taken part in international meetings of artists (OMAI) in Huila, Barquisimeto, Culiacán, Mendoza and Lima, and in exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Cuba, Cusco, Sinaloa and Mexico City, including México Colombia Exuberante at Galería José Luis Cuevas (2022).