International artist, sculptor, and painter K.A. Colorado has spent nearly four decades working in various climatic conditions throughout the world, using ice and snow as both a medium and a subject.
From working in Antarctica and the Patagonian Icefields, to creating snow sculpture in France, to performing an environmental sculptural installation at a glacier in the Yukon, K.A. Colorado has produced art installations all around the globe and created art that has dealt with the global conditions associated with climate change.
His artwork has taken him atop precarious icebergs, alongside rugged mountains in alpine regions, and into the hot desert. He has performed environmental art installations on the Antarctic continent, fabricated steel pyramids in Culiacan, Mexico, carved monumental stone in the Czech Republic, and created the first-ever kinetic snow sculpture which was unveiled in Perm, Russia, near the Ural Mountains.
Invited to CADIC-CONICET in Ushuaia, Argentina, Tierra Del Fuego, by noted geologist and glaciologist Dr. Jorge Rabassa, K.A. Colorado has studied and visually captured icebergs in his paintings and sculptures to depict the changing glacial conditions in the Antarctic.
K.A. Colorado is the creator of the Ice Core Sculptures Series, a propriety series of three-dimensional artworks depicting ice cores and imbedded with environmental and scientific data. Since 2008, K.A. Colorado’s Ice Core Sculptures have been exhibited throughout the world and collected by museums, universities, and scientific institutions.
As the only artist invited among a group of renowned scientists and climatologists from around the world, K.A. Colorado participated in the International Conference on Hydrometeorological Security held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2006. His paper on “Aesthetic Considerations and Implications of Snow Mass and Texture Changes” was published and posted at the Conference, which was attended by climatologists and geologists whose areas of expertise include the Polar regions.
K.A. Colorado was the recipient of the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum LA Artcore Award in 2008. In 2010, K.A. Colorado was selected as speaker and presenter at the TEDx Conference in Monterey, California. K.A. Colorado served as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Artist-In-Residence from 2014 to 2015, during which time he created an art sculpture for NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries program for permanent exhibition. Several of K.A. Colorado’s series of masterpiece paintings and sculptures were acquired by the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in 2017 for permanent exhibition, and he was invited to work as Artist-in-Residence at the university from 2018 to 2019. The artist’s artworks have been collected by many museums, universities, and public institutions throughout the world, and he has spoken at several academic, library, and scientific venues. As an international artist, K.A. Colorado’s work has joined science and art together aesthetically, conceptually, and intellectually, and has explored the historical and human ramifications of our changing climate and environment.