Mexican artist, researcher and architectural designer.
His work uses architecture, drawing, sculpture, writing and video to explore histories of indigeneity in architectural modernity and the production of extreme environments in the Americas. He has been a fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and a grantee of Jumex Foundation for Contemporary Art, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and DCASE, among others. His work has been shown at DePaul Art Museum, BienalSur, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Uri-Eichen Gallery, SITE Galleries, SpaceP11 and Centro de Arte y Filosofia. He has been a guest speaker for institutions and organizations like MoMA’s Emilio Ambasz Institute x DocTalks, the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, Smart Museum of Art, Materia Abierta, UPenn, MAS Context and CENTRO.
Lecturer of Architecture History and Studio at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He manages the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, The University of Chicago.
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Exhibition at Albert Pick Hall, University of Chicago
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Previous clients and collaborators include, Art Institute of Chicago, Singapore Art Museum, Edith Farnsworth House, Goethe-Institut Chicago, Michael Rakowitz Studio, Black Athena Collective, Dawit L. Petros, and Center for Latin American Studies at The University of Chicago.
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Studies for Parasitical Relations
On infrastructures as ideological frameworks.
Work in progress
This is an ongoing research on how ideological frameworks as means of (re)production establish the ways we interact with the built environment and with(in) the social. Using PLA and Mycelium culture as a material and conceptual thread, a series of 3D printed and found objects, images and actions, are used to narrate on how the macro is conditioned by the particularities of the nano and its modes of establishing relations, whereas those are that of a mutualist scenario, or as it has been for a long time, a parasitic one.