Untitled Columbia, 1996
Black and White Photograph
11" x 14"

Cecilia Arboleda holds a BFA in Photography from Florida International University. She is a past recipient of a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship, as well as a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, and she has participated in many group and juried exhibitions

“Since the body of my work is a portfolio about Latin America,” says Arboleda, “I seek to provide for the people in this country, through photography, an opportunity to create a cultural exchange and to learn about a culture outside their own experience. My work isn't intended to emulate any images of other places or times. Their references are to themselves. These photographs are meant to be intimate, frank, privately motivated statements. They are coming from my own strong cultural traditions. My photographs are thus both objective records and subjective expression.”