“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”- Paolo Coelho
Born in Venezuela and raised in Canada, John Londoño studied Fine Arts at Concordia University, where his passion for photography first took shape. Early exhibitions in esteemed art spaces during his studies set the stage for a multifaceted career as a photographer and image-maker. Over more than a decade, Londoño has built a diverse portfolio, collaborating with prominent musicians, directors, and global brands—among them Grimes, Céline Dion, Eminem, and Oasis—while maintaining a deeply personal artistic practice that extends beyond the commercial realm.
Londoño’s art invites audiences to inhabit the delicate tension between reality and fiction, exploring spaces where clarity dissolves into ambiguity and meaning shifts between enlightenment and senselessness. His work, exhibited across Canada, Latin America, and Europe, reflects a profound engagement with themes of impermanence and perception.
Relocating to Europe marked a pivotal moment in Londoño’s journey, reconnecting him with the tactile, serendipitous process of his early analogue practice. This move has allowed him to fully devote himself to his artistic practice, creating space for deeper, more contemplative work that reflects his evolving creative goals. His recent series revisits the aesthetics and processes of his formative years, bridging the material and virtual worlds to explore the interplay between the physical and ephemeral.
Collaboration remains central to Londoño’s creative ethos. Beyond photography, he engages in multidisciplinary projects spanning video, writing, and experimental formats like art films and projections. Guided by a wandering spirit and a sensitivity to the unexpected, his practice embraces the transformative potential of art to deepen our connection to time, space, and one another.