María Durán Sampedro is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia. Duran has earned an MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts (2020), and a BFA with Distinction and Honors in Communication Design at the Pratt Institute (2017). Duran’s solemn sculptures embody the effects of trauma. In her painting and photography, she divulges fictional narratives as well as mental health themes through charged symbolism and planar intersections. Duran has exhibited at La Mama Galleria in Manhattan, and the outdoor artspace Artlot in Brooklyn. She has recently co-curated The Center Cannot Hold at Equity Gallery in New York, NY, which was listed on Artsy's featured shows of March 2020. Duran has also been nominated for the 2020/21 AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship. She has been featured in three issues of Spectator magazine and was a Chosen Illustrator of the Ai - Ap Latin American Illustración 6 Competition.