Edinson Javier Quiñones Falla Campo Zemanate is an artist of Nasa descent, born in La Plata, Huila (Colombia) in 1982. He holds a BFA in Visual Arts and a Master’s degree in Arts Integrated with the Environment from the University of Cauca.

His artistic practice is self-referential, tracing the passage between the countryside and the city: the ways of seeing and perceiving territories, the coca leaf as an ancestral and sacred plant, and the media narratives that associate it with trafficking, organized crime, and national identity. Through installations, interventions, drawings, photographs, and videos, his work recreates, connects, reveals, and exposes a condition that seems to have become ingrained in Colombia’s collective psyche.

Based in Popayán, Quiñones has developed his work through a profound exploration of the wounds inflicted on his ancestral territory by the international war on drugs. In 2012, following the death of his maternal grandmother —a Nasa midwife and traditional healer— he embarked on an emotional journey that led him to engage more deeply with the coca plant, documenting family experiences linked to it, its ancestral dimension, and its relationship to the armed conflict.

In addition to his work as an artist, Quiñones has led projects such as the Manuel Quintín Lame Intercultural International Salon of Indigenous Art, Minga Decolonial Practices, and the Popayork Artistic Residencies.

His work has been presented in various spaces in Colombia and abroad, including the Valenzuela Klenner Gallery (Bogotá), Gallery Mario Kreuzberg (Berlin), the United Nations Headquarters (New York), and the National Salon of Artists of Colombia, among others.