Jerónimo Reyes-Retana

Jerónimo Reyes-Retana (b. Mexico City) is a researcher, artist, educator, and community organizer whose work examines the poetics of infrastructure and the politics of noise in the colonial voids of Latin America, which he defines as marginal—and often erased—sites shaped by the environmental, geopolitical, and social anxieties produced by the pursuit of progress through projects of technological innovation.

 

Reyes-Retana’s work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions at institutions and nonprofit art spaces, including Ars Electronica; Museo Tamayo; Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez; the Denver Art Museum; Co-Lab Projects; Ucross Foundation; the Museum of Latin American Art; and Black Cube. His writing and research have been featured by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), Storefront for Art and Architecture, Ellipses: Journal for Creative Research, La Escuela–MoMA PS1, the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), xCoAx: Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X; Toda la Teoría del Universo; and Earshot: Agency of Sonic Investigation, among others.

 

In 2025, he received the CIFO–Ars Electronica Award, which recognizes outstanding Latin American and Caribbean artists whose practices engage with the intersection of art, technology, and society. He is also a recipient of a Fundación Jumex grant in the category of Education and Public Programs, supporting his community-based initiatives in the northern borderlands of Mexico.

 

Reyes-Retana holds an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Emergent Technologies and Media Arts Practices in the Department of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.