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Miguel Cardenas grew up in Colombia and France. He holds an undergraduate degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he participating in the European Honors program in Rome, and a master’s degree in visual arts from Columbia, where he received the Agnes Martin award for excellence in painting. In addition to being a painter, he has worked as a political cartoonist, gallery director, curator, art advisor, and set designer. He has taught several art classes at Columbia and is currently a visiting critic for the undergraduate visual art majors. Miguel has exhibited in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Banco de la República museum in Bogotá.