Photographer and visual artist born in Lima, Peru, in 1980, she has lived in Vancouver, Canada, since 2023. Currently, Solange is studying the MFA (Visual Arts) program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Before that, she had two academic degrees, a Professional Bachelor’s in Visual Project Direction and Photography (2022) and a Technical Professional in Photography (2006), awarded by the Escuela Superior Tecnológica Centro de la Imagen. She has taken various specialization courses in photography, including diplomas at the Node Center (Spain) and the Fundación Pedro Meyer (Mexico).
Adum Abdala is the First Place Winner of the III Photography Salon organized by the first Lima Photography Biennial and the ICPNA. In 2022, she was selected by the Prix Pictet for the publication of the book and exhibition Collage: Women of the Prix Pictet Since 2008. She has been awarded prizes, honorable mentions, or finalists in competitions such as the ICPNA Contemporary Art Award (2020) and Chosen AI-AP Winners (2019) in the 2nd NexoFoto Ibero-American Contest. (2014), in the Eugenio Courret Documentary Photography Contest (2013), and three times finalist in the Passport for an Artist competition.
She has five solo shows, ¡CENTRO! (2022) in Galería Pública, La conversión de la huella (2022) in the Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso, Swamp City (2017) in the Pardo Heeren room of the ICPNA, Natural (2015) in the Galería Ojo Ajeno and Picture Element (2011) at the Galería El Borde. Collectively, her photographic work has been shown in Lima in cultural centers and galleries, as well as outside her country of origin in different cities in America, Europe, and Asia. Since 2015, she has been part of the Latin American collective Foto-Féminas.
Since 2007, Solange has been teaching courses related to photography, and between 2013 and 2021, she was the Academic Coordinator in Continuing Education at the Centro de la Imagen. In 2021, she co-founded Galería Pública, a virtual gallery specialized in disseminating the diversity of photographic production in Perú.
