Joaquín Aras (b. 1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist and filmmaker. His work focuses on the emotional distance between the public and the media, and on how narrative can preserve memory and challenge historicity. He holds a degree in Communication (UCA) and a master's degree in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from EGS (Switzerland). He participated in the 2012 Artists Program and the 2013 Film Lab at Universidad Di Tella. He attended workshops led by Martín Bonadeo and Diana Aisenberg. He has held solo exhibitions at Isla Flotante (2012, 2013), Museo La Ene (2014), Móvil (2016), Cine York (2018), and Piedras (2019, 2021). He has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (Argentina), MAC-Niterói (Brazil), MNAV (Uruguay), Lund Konsthall (Sweden), Taipei CAC (Taiwan), and Grand Union (UK). His works have been selected for the Braque Prize, the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial, Bienalsur, and the National Salon. He received an Honorable Mention at the 21st Klemm Prize. He has received grants from the National Arts Fund (FNA), the Telefónica Foundation, the Oxenford Collection, and the Plataforma Futuro Prize. He won the CIFO-Ars Electronica 2023 Prize. He was selected for the CCA Kitakyushu Fellowship Program 2018/19 (Japan). He won the Gasworks + URRA 2019/2020 residency with the support of Érica Roberts and in partnership with arteBA.
PROJECTS
Group exhibition reconsiders Argentina’s surrealist artistic legacy from the unstable terrain of the contemporary world, displacing the human as its privileged subject and tracing agency across bodies, technologies, ecologies, matter, other forms of life, and invisible forces.