Artist Rafael Saldarriaga brings elements of his native Colombia into vivid focus by way of bright still lifes and figurative portraits with darker, more somber tones. Whether capturing a bowl of oranges with realistic clarity or depicting an otherworldly basket of apples on a table against the backdrop of dry prairie, Saldarriaga creates work with a unique essence.
Born in Medellín, Colombia, Saldarriaga graduated from the School of Urban and Architectural Design at Pontifical Bolivarian University in 1983. He began his journey to being a painter in 1984 and moved to the United States in 1993, settling in New Mexico for a couple of years. From 1994 to 1995, Saldarriaga performed live drawings at Hardwood Hoffman Studio in Albuquerque. He then relocated to Hawaii and, from 1997 to 1998, did live drawings for the Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center on Maui.
Throughout his career, Saldarriaga has exhibited in solo and group shows, including the 1996 Sapporo International Art Festival in Japan, in which he won the Premier Prix du Public award.
After his time in Hawaii, Saldarriaga moved to New York City, where he also performed live drawings and exhibited his work from 1998 to 1999. He later moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, where he currently lives and works, creating more wonderful still lifes and surrealist figurative work.
On 1stDibs, explore a wide selection of Rafael Saldarriaga’s still life, figurative and landscape paintings.
Basket Of Oranges In The Landscape
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Basket of oranges in the landscape. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established...
Canvas, Oil
$24,000Sale Price|20% Off
Large Yellow Lilies By The Window New York
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Yellow Lilies By The Window New York From the artist studio in Chelsea New York. Rafael Saldarriaga was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. Af...
Canvas, Oil
Tropical Fruit In The Basket
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Large Tropical Fruits In the Basket. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established his residency in New York City. He studied in Live de Zulateqi's Art Academy and also graduated from the school of Architecture and Urban Design with Pontificia Bolivariana University. In 1984 he became a full-time painter. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005- Galleria de Arte El Taller, Medellin, Colombia 2003-4 Notes in Color, Colombian Center Gallery, New York City 2000- Artist on the Scene, AMC Gallery, New York City 2000- Bodegones, Colombian Government Trade Bureau, New York City 1998- Still Life, United Nations Secretarial Bldg., New York City Bodegones, Consulate General of Colombia, New York City 1999-01. Open Studio, New York, NY 1985- Club Campestre, Cali Colombia 1984-93- Open Studio, Medellín, Colombia 1976- Academia de Arte Libe de Zulategi y Mejia, Medellín, Colombia GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006. Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Open Studios, New York, NY 2005. Latin American Expressions, The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, CT 2004. Latin American Art Exhibition, Wally Findlay Galleries, New York, NY 2008 Latin American Art Exhibition, Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, FL 2001. Drawings and Photographs, Gunter Knob Studio, New York City 1999. New House Galleries for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY . Selected Latin Artists, Art Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey . Chelsea Art Walk, New York, NY 1998. AT&T Latino Art Festival 1998, Queens, NY . Latin American Art in the 90s, St. Johns University, Jamaica, New York . Chelsea Art Festival, New York City . The Belle Arts Gala, NE Gallery, New York City 1997. Hui No’eau Visual Art Center Open Studio, Maui, Hawaii . Colombia in New York, Euroamerica Gallery, New York City . Gran Prix...
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition, Large Oil lPainting on Canvas
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Abstract Composition 2024 Large abstract with texture, artist signed and titled. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. Aft...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Alstroemeria Yellow Lilys In The Basket large oil painting
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Alstroemeria Yellow Lilys Still Life oil painting. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After l...
Canvas, Oil
$28,000Sale Price|20% Off
Lilies In East Village New York
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Lilies in East Village New York. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established his residency in New York City. He studied in Live de Zulateqi's Art Academy and also graduated from the school of Architecture and Urban Design with Pontificia Bolivariana University. In 1984 he became a full-time painter. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005- Galleria de Arte El Taller, Medellin, Colombia 2003-4 Notes in Color, Colombian Center Gallery, New York City 2000- Artist on the Scene, AMC Gallery, New York City 2000- Bodegones, Colombian Government Trade Bureau, New York City 1998- Still Life, United Nations Secretarial Bldg., New York City Bodegones, Consulate General of Colombia, New York City 1999-01. Open Studio, New York, NY 1985- Club Campestre, Cali Colombia 1984-93- Open Studio, Medellín, Colombia 1976- Academia de Arte Libe de Zulategi y Mejia, Medellín, Colombia GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006. Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Open Studios, New York, NY 2005. Latin American Expressions, The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, CT 2004. Latin American Art Exhibition, Wally Findlay Galleries, New York, NY 2008 Latin American Art Exhibition, Wally Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, FL 2001. Drawings and Photographs, Gunter Knob Studio, New York City 1999. New House Galleries for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY . Selected Latin Artists, Art Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey . Chelsea Art Walk, New York, NY 1998. AT&T Latino Art Festival 1998, Queens, NY . Latin American Art in the 90s, St. Johns University, Jamaica, New York . Chelsea Art Festival, New York City . The Belle Arts Gala, NE Gallery, New York City 1997. Hui No’eau Visual Art Center Open Studio, Maui, Hawaii . Colombia in New York, Euroamerica Gallery, New York City . Gran Prix...
Canvas, Oil
White Lilys Landscape
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
White Lily Naranjas And Oranges 2021 RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii establishe...
Canvas, Oil
Oranges In The Basket
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life with oranges in the basket. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii establi...
Canvas, Oil
Basket Full Of Flowers
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Basket full of flowers, Artist signed, mixed media, oil on canvas. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in Ne...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Rosadas In The Landscape
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Rosadas 2022 RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established his residency in New Y...
Canvas, Oil
Still Life With Oranges In The Basket
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life with Oranges in the basket at night, framed. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico a...
Canvas, Oil
White Chrysanthemums And Oranges
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
White Chrysanthemums and oranges. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established ...
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Oranges
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life with oranges canvas size 16x20 framed 22.5x26.5 RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United St...
Oil, Canvas
Red Lily Love And Passion
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Red Lily Love And Passion 2022 RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established his ...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Still Life With Lilys
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Lilys 2022 RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established his residency in New Yo...
Canvas, Oil
Pink Chrysanthemums In The Basket
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Basket Full Of Pink Chrysanthemums 2021 RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After livin...
Canvas, Oil
$5,942
H 24.61 in W 34.45 in D 3.94 in
'Still Life with Books' by Fernand Adriaenssens ( 1859 – Antwerp – 1944 )
Located in Knokke, BE
Fernand Adriaenssens 1859 – Antwerp – 1944 Belgian Painter 'Still Life with Books' Signature: signed lower middle left 'F Adriaenssens', on revers signed and placed Antwerp 'F. Adriaenssens Anvers' Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 50,5 x 75,5 cm, frame size 62,5 x 87,5 cm Biography: Adriaenssens Fernand...
Canvas, Oil
Golden Maximo Turquoise
By Carlos Mercado
Located in San Juan, PR
Mixed Media Photography , hand painted C-Print mounted on a gold acrylic mirror enclosed on a Plexiglass box In this new series Mercado big format as a medium to intervene Jack Del...
Acrylic, Canvas, Neon Light, Spray Paint, Photogram
On The Town: New York / restaurant scene oil on canvas
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'On The Town: New York', depicts a scene from a night in the town in NY. NY, from a series of paintings that depict dining - food and drink experiences by artist Mimi Jensen, who use...
Canvas, Oil
$12,914
H 59.06 in W 47.25 in D 1.58 in
ABSTRACT Mirko Baricchi Oil Gestural Landscapes Flora Earth Tones Mixed media
By Mirko Baricchi
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Mirko Baricchi (born 1970) is an accomplished Italian painter who currently lives and works between Vicenza and La Spezia, regions located in Veneto and Liguria, Italy, respectively....
Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$6,514
H 48.04 in W 36.23 in D 1.58 in
Contemporary Abstract Painting by Colt Seager, Geometric Color Field, Oil Canvas
By Colt Seager
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork in our collection comes with a Certificate of Au...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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$6,800
H 26.5 in W 52.5 in
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Suspenders Amidst the Cattails
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas Signed in red, u.l. $6500.00 + $300.00 framing This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art mo...
Canvas, Oil
$9,942
H 47.25 in W 39.38 in D 1.58 in
Abstract Oil Painting by Mirko Baricchi – Contemporary Color Field Composition
By Mirko Baricchi
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Mirko Baricchi (born 1970) is an accomplished Italian painter who currently lives and works between Vicenza and La Spezia, regions located in Veneto and Liguria, Italy, respectively....
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$8,500
H 20 in W 28 in
Brown Trout -Late 19th Century Scottish Still Life. Naturalist Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
A finely executed late 19th-century still life by John Bucknell Russell (1823-1919) of two brown trout in the foreground, along with a beautiful landscape. Fine example of a period fish still life, popular in Scotland during this period. It is presented in a gilt frame. Unsigned canvas...
Canvas, Oil
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
By Michael Tole
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty. The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Oil, Canvas
$5,485
H 38.98 in W 46.07 in D 1.58 in
Contemporary Textured Abstract Painting by Colt Seager
By Colt Seager
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Colt Seager (b. 1993) is an American painter and sculptor located near Chicago, IL. Inspired by the inherent holiness of the natural world, his work is rooted in a process-based appr...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$3,450
H 48 in W 24 in
"Summer Sunrise" - Contemporary Acrylic Barn Painting on Canvas
By Justin Wheatley
Located in Denver, CO
Justin Wheatley was born and raised in Clinton, Utah. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Utah State University with an emphasis in drawing and painting, and a Masters of Arts fro...
Canvas, Oil
$5,500
H 24 in W 18 in D 2 in
On The Town: San Francisco / restaurant scene oil on canvas
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'On The Town: San Francisco', depicts a scene from a night in the town in San Francisco, from a series of paintings that depict dining - food and drink experiences by artist Mimi Jen...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 25.6 in W 21.66 in D 1.58 in
Christina Gschwantner – Contemporary Abstract Multicolor Line Painting Canvas
By Christina Gschwantner
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The work reflects the artist’s mastery of gesture and emotion, where each mark becomes a visual language. A striking piece that brings movement, depth, and intensity to any collectio...
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$2,500
H 33.75 in W 41.75 in
Still Life with Decanter by Philadelphia Artist Larry Day, 1962
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Larry Day (American, 1921-1998) Still Life with Decanter Oil on canvas, 33 3/4 x 41 3/ 4 inches FRAMED: 41 x 49 inches (approx.) Signed at lower right: “Day” Exhibition label on str...
Canvas, Oil
$5,500
H 25 in W 19 in D 2 in
On The Town: Paris / restaurant kitchen scene oil on canvas - food + dining
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'On The Town: Paris', depicts a warm and inviting restaurant dining experience. A scene from a night on the town in France from Jensen's series of paintings that depict and celebrate...
Oil, Canvas
Oranges In The Basket Between Palm Trees
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Oranges In The Basket Between Palm Trees RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii establ...
Canvas, Oil
Pink Ranunculus Flowers In The Basket
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pink Ranunculus flowers in the basket, oil painting. White floater frame. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After livin...
Canvas, Oil
Red Perennial With Oranges In The Landscape
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Red Perennial with oranges in the landscape, oil painting. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico...
Canvas, Oil
Still Life Lillies With Oranges In The Landscape
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life Lillies With Oranges In The Landscape oil painting. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Me...
Canvas, Oil
Calla Lily Cartuchos En Paisaje
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Cartuchos En Paisaje Calla Lily RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii established ...
Canvas, Oil
Wall Of Oranges
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Wall of Oranges, 48x48 Contemporary Pointillist style. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico an...
Canvas, Oil
Fruit Basket In The Landscape
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Large Still Life with Fruits in the basket. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living in New Mexico and Hawaii est...
Canvas, Oil
Sill Life with Red Lilies
By Rafael Saldarriaga
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Large Still Life with Red Lilies in Landscape. RAFAEL SALDARRIAGA was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. After living i...
Oil, Canvas