Victor Arroyo

Victor Arroyo (b. 1977 Mexico) is a video artist working in the crossfield between cinema and contemporary art. His practice is situated at the intersection between aesthetics, knowledge production and community-based research. His research seeks to examine the specificity and geopolitics of place, exploring the possibilities laying dormant between ethnographic research, academic writing and artistic practice.

His work has been most recently exhibited at Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA, BIENALSUR, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Museo de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson, Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts
Santa Fe, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Kasseler Dokfest, RIDM Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire Montréal, Uppsala Kortfilmfestival, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Cinemateca de Bogotá, Cinémathèque Pacifique, Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, among others.

A recipient of several awards such as DOXA Documentary Film Festival Award, Mitacs Globalink Research Award and the Programme Documentaire à Risque PRIM.

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