TORONTO, CANADA

CAROLINA DELGADO-DURUFLÉ

Urcunina (White)

$996.00
Exhibition Submission Statement

Migrating is a daily meditation on containment, on what is inside and what is outside, on who is welcome and who is not, on what is visible and what is hidden. My work, inspired by the Urcunina Volcano (Galeras in Spanish) that towers above my hometown of Pasto in Colombia, expresses fragments of those meditations. Now that I live in Toronto, I think about my volcano when I create. Behind porcelain surfaces can hide as many memories as the observer can hold. Some memories are right there at the top, easy to spot. Others can remain dormant for decades, hard to express in a foreign world and sometimes even apparently gone forever. 

Dimensions: 9"H x 5"W x 2"D

Material: white porcelain, watercolour underglaze, clear glaze

Artwork ships: beginning october 22nd

Urcunina (White)

Carolina Delgado-duruflé, 2025
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Artist Statement

Technically speaking, a volcano is a mountain, typically conical, inside which lava, rocks, steam, and gas can be found and are emitted in times of activity. I grew up at the
foot of a volcano and was taught through weekly drills at school to never forget what it contains. Its Indigenous name in Quillacinga is Urcunina (Fire Mountain), and is much more helpful than its figurative name in Spanish, Galeras (Galley) when it comes to going beyond appearances. Now that I live in Toronto, I try to draw the same wisdom from making porcelain volcanoes. Behind their neat surfaces can hide as many memories as the observer can hold. Some memories are right there at the top, easy to spot. Others can remain dormant for decades, hard to express in a foreign world and sometimes even apparently gone forever. Until…

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About the Artist

Carolina Delgado-Duruflé is a multidisciplinary artist. Born in Colombia, she opened the award-winning shop “Planta Baja” in Bogotá and practiced interior design for a decade before moving to Toronto in 2014. She has since focused on fine art, combining porcelain, glazes, metal, and glass to create islands of beauty through sculpture, shadow boxes, and installations. She was selected for Artist Project 2025, was featured in 100 Emerging Artworks: 2024 Women's Edition and on The Jealous Curator blog, and created a room installation for the reopening of Toronto’s historic Gladstone House in 2021. She received the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects’"Ground Award" in 2020 and previously exhibited at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, the Banco de la República Art Museum, Bogotá, and Agora Art Gallery, New York. A daughter and a mother, she draws from her personal experience to reflect on tradition, movement and resilience through her art.

Artist cv

CAROLINA DELGADO-DURUFLÉ

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2005 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Bogotá – Colombia

School of Art and Design
Trade Show Set Design: Ephemeral Architecture Space Diploma

2001-2003 La Salle College International – Bogotá – Colombia

Interior Design BA (Hons.)

2000 – 2001 Taller Cinco – Design Centre – Bogotá – Colombia

Textile Design (HND)

1999 – 2000 H.N.D., Anniesland College – Glasgow – Scotland
Art and Design: Advanced Portfolio (HND)

1998 – 2000 B.F.A., Glasgow School of Art – Glasgow – Scotland

International Foundation (Art and Design)
1998 – 1999 Anniesland College – Glasgow – Scotland
Landscape Design and Construction (NC)
Design Your Own Garden (Leisure)

GRANTS AND AWARDS
• 2021: Ontario Arts Council. Craft Project Grant (7,500$)
• 2020: "Ground Award". Winner of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects at Grow
Op 2020.
• 2012: Colombian Winner, Adidas Original White Space Project

PUBLICATIONS
• 2024: 100 Emerging Artworks: 2024 Women's Edition (Art to Hearts)
• 2021: Issue XXV - Women's Edition 2021 (Create! Magazine)
• 2020: The Jealous Curator art blog

EXHIBITIONS
• May 2025 - Artist Project, Exhibition Place Toronto
• June 2024 - The Club, by Rue Pigalle (Toronto, Canada), Private Studio Visit
• September 2021 - Gladstone House Toronto Re-Opening (Toronto, Canada) "Counting
Sheep"
• July 2021 - Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. Danielle Krysa Curated Collection.
• June-August 2020 - Labour of Love (Toronto, Canada) "Travel Within"
• March 2020 - Gladstone Hotel (Toronto, Canada) “Unfamiliar Weather,"
• January 2020 - The Shop (Toronto, Canada) “Resilience" 100 Vases / DesignTO
• June-July 2015 - Cedar Ridge Studio Gallery (Toronto, Canada) “Greening the Pan Am /
Parapan Am Games”, Art of the Americas Exhibition

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• November 2013 - Agora Art Gallery (New York, USA) “Planta Baja”
• October 2013 - artBO (Bogotá, Colombia) “Planta Baja”
• August 2012 - The Warehouse Art Gallery (Bogota, Colombia) “Planta Baja - Un mundo en
Verde”, Adidas Originals White Space Project
• August 2011 - Jose Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden (Bogota, Colombia) “Planta Baja -
Nuevo ciclo de vida”
• September 2010 - Casa Ensamble Theatre (Bogotá, Colombia) “Planta Baja - 10 por 10”
• May 2010 - La Residencia Art Gallery (Bogotá, Colombia) “Planta Baja”
• April 2003 - Portobello Design Centre (Bogotá, Colombia ) “La Salle College International
Exhibition”
• May 2000 - Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow, Scotland) “Anniesland College
Exhibition”

WORK EXPERIENCE
2014- Ceramic Artist, Toronto
2004 – 2014 Planta Baja, Interior Design and Vegetal Intervention, Colombia

Executive Director – Senior Designer
2012–2013 Hotel Click Clack, Bogotá, Interior Design
2007-2009 Falabella (Department Store)– Bogotá – Colombia
Art Director – Production of Falabella’s Catalogue

2005 - 2006 FRANCO Ltd.

Head of Corporate Image and Window Dressing for all Colombian Branches of
this Furniture Chain Store.

2004 -2005 Brunati Interiors y Dini Muebles - Bogotá
Commercial Display and Interior Designer Adviser

2004 -2005 Foto Japon - FRANCO Ltd

Head of Corporate Image and Window Dressing for all Colombian Branches
Description: National Chain Store of photo services

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