Tony Evanko (Fundación Casa Tres Patios)

Tony Evanko is an artist, architect, founder and current director of the Foundation Casa Tres Patios, a contemporary art center in Medellín, Colombia dedicated to promoting social justice through art and education. In this position he has developed programs including exhibitions, lectures, workshops and community based artistic and alternative educational projects.

In 2015 he was part of the curatorial team for the International Art Encounter MDE15 in Medellín, Colombia. He has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Visual Arts in the University of Antioquia, the University of Fine Arts in Medellín (Fundación Universitaria de Bellas Artes) and the Landscape Architecture Department in the University of New Mexico.

Between 2010 and 2012 he participated as part of the Visual Arts Council in Medellín as the representative in the area of New Media.

As an artist he has participated in exhibitions in various galleries and museums in the U.S., Europe and Colombia, and his work is included in public and corporate collections in the U.S. and Colombia.

Tony is a partner on the Phase 2 Large Grant project 'Cuál es la verdad? (What is the Truth?) De-constructing collective memories and imagining alternative futures with young people in Chocó through music and arts' (Colombia).