Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. 1980
Living and working between the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, known as Vancouver, Canada, and Mexico City since 2011
EDUCATION
2025
PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies. University of British Columbia. Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program (ISGP). Vancouver, Canada.
2013
Master in Fine Art. University of British Columbia. Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVA). Vancouver, Canada.
2011
Master in Fine Art. National School of Fine Arts in the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). Mexico City, Mexico.
2004
B.A. Graphic Design and Visual Communication. National School of Fine Arts (UNAM). Mexico City, Mexico.
EXHIBITIONS
BIENNIALS
BIENALSUR 2023-24
2024 Video Programming. Movimientos Urgentes (Urgent Movements). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
BIENALSUR 2020-21
2021-22 Complejo Museográfico Provincial Enrique Udaondo. The Eternal Return of the New World. Luján, Argentina.
2021 Fundación Francis Naranjo. A New Order. Breaking Down Borders. Canary Islands, Spain.
Solo Shows
2027 Artcite Inc. Mil Usos (Jack of All Trades). Windsor, ON, Canada. (June)
2026 Espacio CACA. Mil Usos (Jack of All Trades). Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. (February)
2024 Hamilton Artist Inc. Little México. Hamilton, Canada.
2023 The New Gallery. Little México. Calgary, Canada.
2022 AWA Cultura. Recorridos no Evidentes. Caracas, Venezuela.
2021 Abrir Galería. Strident Aesthetics. Towards a New Liberation. Lima, Peru.
2021 Fazakas Gallery. La Cintura Cósmica del Sur (The Cosmic Waist of the South). Vancouver, Canada.
2019 Aramauca Contemporary Art Platform. Injertos (Grafting). Chiapas, Mexico.
2019 The Reach Gallery Museum. Little México. Abbotsford, Canada.
2019 Grunt Gallery. Strident Aesthetics. Towards a New Liberation. Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Fazakas Gallery. Panoply of Possibilities. Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Gallery 1515. Merging Perceptions. Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Arnica Artist-Run Centre. Embroideries. Kamloops, Canada.
2015 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Definiciones (Definitions). Victoria, Canada.
2014 Fazakas Gallery. La Casa de las Mascaras (House of Masks). Vancouver, Canada.
2012 AMS Gallery UBC. Presencia Anacrónica (Anachronistic Precense). Vancouver, Canada.
2004 La Boligoma Gallery. Teoría de Euler (Euler Theory). Mexico City, Mexico.
2002 Emma Rizo Art Gallery. Yaxactun (The Great Route). ENEP-UNAM. State of Mexico, Mexico.
Group Shows
2026 Adrián Ibañez Galería. Simulacra and Simulation. Bogotá, Colombia.
2025 Plaza Fátima Cultural Centre. Décima primera Muestra Iberoamericana de Arte Miniatura y Pequeño Formato (Eleventh Ibero-American Exhibition of Miniature and Small Format Art). San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León. Mexico.
2025 RP Estudio. Una de las muchas miradas del arte contemporáneo nacional (One of the many views of the national contemporary art). Puebla, Mexico.
2025 Laguna. Economía de la ligereza (Economy of Lightness). Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 Workers Art & Heritage Centre. The People United. Hamilton, Canada.
2022 Sur Gallery. The People United. Toronto, Canada.
2022 Interference Archive. Silencio, Fuego, Palabra, Vida. New York, United States.
2022 Secuencia de Inútiles. Postales por Ayotzinapa. Madrid, Spain.
2020 AWA Cultura. 1er Salón Virtual Incubadora Visual. Caracas, Venezuela.
2019 Sur Gallery. Power in Resistance. Toronto, Canada.
2018 Galería de la Raza. Comida es Medicina/Food is Medicine. San Francisco, USA.
2018 Penticton Art Gallery. eRacism. Penticton, Canada.
2017 Círculo Cubano de México. 73 Vintage Moto Art. Mexico City, Mexico.
2017 VIVO Media Arts Centre. Not Sent Letters. Vancouver, Canada.
2016 Fazakas Gallery. Emerge. Vancouver, Canada.
2016 Fazakas Gallery. Divergent Convergence. Vancouver, Canada.
2016 Gallery Gachet. In This Together. Vancouver, Canada.
2016 Arnica Artist-Run Centre. Light it Up. Kamloops, Canada.
2015 Granville Island Cultural Society. Day of the Dead Exhibit. Vancouver, Canada.
2015 The Toast Collective. Not Sent Letters. Vancouver, Canada.
2013 Monica Reyes Gallery. Diffractions of the Local. Vancouver, Canada.
2013 Fazakas Gallery. Story. Vancouver, Canada.
2013 Satellite Gallery. Ten Thousand Suns. Vancouver, Canada.
2013 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. As Seen Here. Vancouver, Canada.
2012 AHVA Library Gallery. Ded Reckoning. UBC. Vancouver, Canada.
2012 Mercado de las Pulgas (Flea Market). Dólar (Dollar). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011 Tamayo Museum. XV Biennial of Painting Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City, Mexico.
2010 TV-UNAM. Arte Shock: Interactive Program. Visual Arts and Artistic Process. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Monterrey Glass Museum. II Biennial of Art in Glass. Monterrey, Mexico.
2008 Jesus Gallardo Art Gallery. T-REX International Contemporary Art Festival. León, Mexico.
2006 Tres50 Art Gallery. San Sebastián Mártir. Popular Manifestation. Chiapas, Mexico.
2004 Monterrey Glass Museum. First Glass Art Contest. Monterrey, Mexico.
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2003 National School of Fine Arts (UNAM). Esferas (Spheres). Mexico City, Mexico.
RESIDENCIES
2024 RONDO Art Residency. Mexico City, Mexico.
2018 Summer Indigenous Art Intensive. Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. UBCO. Kelowna, Canada.
ART COLLECTIVES
2024 – Consulado Rebelde (Rebel Consulate) (CoRe). Collaboration with Salvadorian artist Osvaldo Ramírez Castillo
2016 – Galo Preto Coletivo (Black Rooster Collective). Collaboration with Brazilian artist Bozo Bacamarte
COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE & CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Dignidad Migrante Society. Non-profit Organization, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Since 2018: Advisor of the board, Archive Coordinator, and Cultural Events Volunteer.
Curatorial/Artistic Projects for Dignidad Migrante Society:
2026 LA ESCUELA___. “Invisibles y Desechables. Art, Resistance and Education”. Descentralized Symposium “Redes as Resistance”. Coordinated by MoMA PS1 (New York), Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City), Espacio Odeón (Bogota), and La Nueva Fábrica (Guatemala City). New York, US.
2025 FLEET Mobile Artist Studio. Invisible and Disposable. Burnaby, BC, Canada.
2025 Car Free Day. City of Burnaby. Burnaby, BC, Canada.
2025 OFAFF. Outdoor Fine Arts Fair and Festival. Township of Langley Civic Facility. Langley, BC, Canada.
2025 World Party 2025. Coordinate by Alegría Soy Cultural & Community Society. Burnaby, BC, Canadá.
2025 Place des Arts. Invisible and Disposable. Temporary Foreign Farm Workers. Life and Rituals After Work. Leonore Peyton Salon. Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada.
2024 Douglas College. Invisible and Disposable. Temporary Foreign Farm Workers. Life and Rituals After Work. Amelia Douglas Gallery. New Westminster, BC, Canada.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014 Simon K.Y. Lee Global Lounge. Mēxihco. El omeyokan disipado (Mēxihco. The dissipate paradise). Artwork by Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda and Josema Zamorano. UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Carlos Colín. Un archivo desde “La Dignidad” (An Archive from ‘La Dignidad’). II Latin American Encounter of Art Archives. Faculty of Arts Pontifical University of Chile, Archive/Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth, São Paulo, Brazil, Arkheia UNAM/MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico & Santiago, Chile. Publicación digital.
2020 Carlos Colín. Cámara de combate. El festival de cine latinoamericano como reflexión-acción (Cámara de combate. Latin American Film Festival(s) as Reflexión–Acción. Postcolonial Directions in Education. Edición: The (De)Colonial Pedagogical Possibilities of Film and Film Festivals. Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020, p. 127 – 141.
Journal Articles (in-submission)
Carlos Colín. Baroque Paradigm (Abyssus abyssum invocat). Capilano Review 2026.
MEDIA REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
2022 Peripheral Review. Written by Angie Rico. June 27, 2022. Vancouver, Canada.
2021 Canarias 7. “Cuando el arte ilumina realidades ocultas” by Victoriano Suárez Álamo. August 25, 2021. Las Palmas, Spain.
2020 Arte Informado. “Decolonialismo, poscolonialismo y cuestionamiento colonial en 11 artistas” (Decolonialism, postcolonialism, and colonial questioning in 11 artists) by Gustavo Pérez Diez. August, 2020. Spain.
2020 Reading the Migration Library. Project created and curated by Lois Klassen. Vancouver, Canada.
2019 La Source. Written in French by Luc Bengono. January, 2019. Vancouver Canada.
2029 Gallerie West. “Carlos Colín: La Sublevación de la Máscara – El Motín Iconoclasta”. June, 2019. Vancouver, Canada.
2019 The Cascade. “Exploring the nature of work” by Karen White. May 29, 2019. Abbotsford, Canada.
2019 Gallerie West. “Carlos Colín: Little México”. May, 2019. Vancouver, Canada.
2019 Akimbo. Hit List. Interview by Kim Fullerton. February 12, 2019. Toronto, Canada.
2019 Gallerie West. “Carlos Colín: Strident aesthetics. Towards a new liberation”. January, 2019. Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Humble Arts Foundation. “Photography Highlights from Seattle’s Last Art Fair Left Standing” by Jon Feinstein. August 3, 2018. Seattle, US.
2016 Toronto Life. “The 10 most exciting artists to check out at Art Toronto” by Emily Landau. October 26, 2016. Toronto, Canada.
2015 365 Artists | 365 Days. Interview. August 29, 2015. Milwaukee, US.
2014 Inside Vancouver. “Latin American art features the masks of Carlos Colín” by Shawn Conner. June 25, 2014. Vancouver, Canada.
2013 Vancourier. “State of the Arts: New gallery mixes Northwest Coast art with contemporary. Fazakas Gallery launches with Story exhibit” by Cheryl Rossi. October 1, 2013. Vancouver, Canada.
2013 Ubyssey. Written by Aurora Tejeida. September 15, 2014. Vancouver, Canada.
2008 Milenio. “Enmarca luto la segunda Bienal de Arte en Vidrio” by Gustavo Mendoza Lemus. Monterrey, Mexico.
2006 Cuarto Poder. “Visiones de San Sebastián” by Verónica Huesca. January 30, 2006. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico.
2004 El Norte. “Entregan hoypremios del Primer Concurso de Arte en Vidrio” by Martha Ramos. September, 2004. Monterrey, Mexico.
2003 Reforma. “Montan expo de fotos con estilo minimalista” by Heidy Torres. November 13, 2003. Mexico City, Mexico.
ARTWORK PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGUES
2026 Chapter. “Defying Borders Through Artist Publishing and Other Aesthetic Actions: Lois Klassen in conversation with Daisy Quezada Ureña”. Book: Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian Experiences and Practices in Film, New Media, and Visual Arts. Edited by Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Analays Alvarez Hernandez and Zaira Zarza. Concordia University Press. Montreal, Canada.
2025 Proyecto Editorial BANDERA No 6: “Reflexiones sobre el trabajo” (Editorial Project BANDERA No 6: “Reflections on Work”). Casa Espiral, Mexico City, Mexico.
2025 RP Estudio. Collective Show. Catalogue. Puebla, Mexico.
2025 Carlos Colín. Little México. Artist Catalogue. Writing by Danica Evering. Published by Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton, Canada.
2023 BIENALSUR 2023. Catalogue. Edited by Diana Beatriz Welsher. Published by UNTREF (National University of Tres de Febrero). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2022 ACEVES SEPÚLVEDA, Gabriela. “Encounters with “Latin American Art” in Canada: From Toronto to Vancouver, 1999-2021”. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 1 (2022): 122-136. University of California Press. California, US.
2022 LOIC, Erika. “The Once and Future Histories of the Book: Decolonial Interventions into the Codex, Chronicle, and Khipu”. Scholarly Essay. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 1 (2022): 9-26. University of California Press. California, US.
2022 TOLEDO, Tamara. “Sur Gallery. A Space for Curatorial Strategies for Representation”. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 1 (2022): 110-121. University of California Press. California, US.
2022 The People United. Exhibition catalogue. Curatorial essay by Tamara Toledo. Toronto, Canada.
2021 Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex. Database. Created by professors Jinny Yu, Celina Jeffery and Ming Tiampo from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.
2021 BIENALSUR 2021. Catalogue. Edited by Diana Beatriz Welsher. Published by UNTREF (National University of Tres de Febrero). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2019 Carlos Colín. Injertos (Grafting). Artist Catalogue. Essay by Diana Perozo. Published by Araumaca Contemporary Art Platform. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
2019 Carlos Colín. Catalogue. Essay by Adrienne Fast. Published by The Reach Gallery Museum Abbostford. Abbotsford, Canada.
2019 Carlos Colín. Artist Catalogue. Essay by Dana Claxton. Published by Grunt Gallery. Vancouver, Canada.
2012 XV Rufino Tamayo Biennial. Catalogue. Coordinate by Juan Carlos Pereda. Published by Olga and Rufino Tamayo Foundation A.C. Mexico City, Mexico.
CONFERENCE & PANEL PRESENTATIONS AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS
2026 Carlos Colín. “Invisibles y Desechables. Art, Resistance and Education”. Decentralized Symposium “Redes as Resistance”. LA ESCUELA___. Coordinated by MoMA PS1 (New York), Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City), Espacio Odeón (Bogota), and La Nueva Fábrica (Guatemala City). New York, US.
2023 Carlos Colín. “Un archivo desde la dignidad”. II Latin American Encounter of Art Archives. Faculty of Arts Pontifical University of Chile, Archive/Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth, São Paulo, Brazil, Arkheia UNAM/MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico. Santiago, Chile.
2022 Carlos Colín. “Questioning Notions of Mestizaje”. Positionality. Symposium on Latin American & Latinx Art in Canada. Sur Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
2020 Carlos Colín. “Research-Creation Practice”. University of Antioquia. Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia.
2019 Carlos Colín. “Library Research + Creative Practice”. Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Carlos Colín. “Batman versus Superman in Baroque Times.” CALACS (Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies). Université du Québec à Montréal. Montreal, Quebec
2017 Carlos Colín. “The Baroque in the XXI Century in Mexico.” ISGP Nexus Conference. UBC
2016 Carlos Colín. “Cultural Illusions: The Hybrid Elitism.” CALACS Congress. University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada.
2015 Carlos Colín. “Visual Arts and Revolution in Mexico.” 6th Latin American Research Group Workshop. University of Victoria. Victoria, Canada.
2014 Carlos Colín. “Strike, Revolution, and Visual Arts.” Out of the Box ISGP Conference. Liu Institute. UBC. Vancouver, Canada.
2011 Carlos Colín. “Public Art in Latin America.” Fifth Graduate Student Colloquium. National School of Fine Arts, UNAM. Mexico City, Mexico.
ARTIST TALK
2024 Artist Talk. Vancouver Technical Secondary School (VTSS). Vancouver, Canada.
2022 Artist Talk. Reading the Migrant Library created by Lois Klassen. Vancouver, Canada.
2019 Artist Talk. Sur Gallery/Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Toronto, Canada.
2017 Guest Responder. Terreno: Borderlands Linguistics. Emily Carr University. Vancouver, Canada.
2015 Artist Talk. “In Another Place, and Here.” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Victoria, Canada.
2014 Artist Talk. “Latin American Art as Utopia and Social Practice.” Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (FHIS), UBC. Vancouver, Canada.
MENTORSHIPS
2019 The Mentorship Project (TMP). Arnica Artist-Run Centre. Kamloops, Canada.
GRANTS / AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Canada Council for the Arts. Art Abroad Program. Canada.
2024 Canada Council for the Arts. Art Across Canada. Canada.
2024 BC Arts Council. Individual Arts Grant. British Columbia, Canada.
2022 Canada Council for the Arts. Category Explore and Create. Canada.
2020 1er. Salón Virtual Incubadora Visual. Award: First Place. Caracas, Venezuela.
2024 Canada Council for the Arts. Category Explore and Create. Canada.
2014-2019 CONACYT (Mexican government funding agency).Doctoral Fellowship. Mexico.
2018 Canada Council for the Arts. Category Explore and Create. Canada.
2017 Artist Studio Award Program (2018-2021). Work Studio. City of Vancouver, Canada.
2016 Emerging Artist Award (Category Visual Arts) nominated by Dana Claxton. The Mayor’s Arts Awards. Vancouver, Canada.
2016 MITACS Globalink Research Award. UBC. Vancouver, Canada.
2009 Graduate Fellowship. UNAM. Mexico City, Mexico.
ART FAIRS / AUCTIONS
2026 ARTBO Fin de Semana (ARTBO Weekend). Bogotá, Colombia.
2025 Clavo Movimiento Art Fair. Mexico City, Mexico.
2021 Splash Arts Umbrella. Art Auction. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2018 Seattle Art Fair. Seattle, WA, US
2014 & 2016
Toronto Art Fair. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Vancouver Art Gallery. Art Auction. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
COLLECTIONS
Sur Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
MUNTREF. Tres de Febrero National Museum University. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Francis Naranjo Foundation. Canary Islands, Spain.
The Reach Gallery Museum. Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
Monterrey Glass Museum. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Aramauca. Contemporary Art Platform. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Private art collection in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, United States, and Canada.
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
UBC – University of British Columbia
2025 Sessional Instructor. “Sculpture” (VISA 260 002). 3 Credits. Art History, Visual Arts & Theory. UBC. (Jan-April). Vancouver, Canada.
2022 – Sessional Instructor. “Sculpture” (VISA 260 001). 3 Credits. Art History, Visual Arts & Theory. UBC. (Sep-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2022 – 23 Sessional Lecturer. “Advanced Seminar II” (VISA 481 001). 3 Credits. Art History, Visual Arts & Theory. UBC. (Jan-Apr). Vancouver, Canada.
ECUAD – Emily Carr University of Art + Design
2025 Sessional Lecturer. “Art and Culture since 1950” (AHIS 210 S001). 3 Credits. Spring (Jan-Apr). Vancouver, Canada.
2024 Sessional Lecturer. “Core Interdisciplinary Studio” (FNDT 165 F004). 6 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2024 Sessional Lecturer. “The Ethics of Representation” (SOCS 302 F001). 3 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2024 Sessional Lecturer. “Studies in Modern Art” (AHIS 325 F001). 3 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2023 Sessional Lecturer. “Topics in Modernism” (AHIS 408 F001). 3 Credits. Fall (Jan-Apr). Vancouver, Canada.
2023 Sessional Instructor. “Creative Processes” (FNDT 108 F022). 3 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2023 Sessional Lecturer. “Studies in Modern Art” (AHIS 325 S091). 3 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2022 Sessional Instructor. “Interdisciplinary Studio Core” (FNDT 165 F137). 6 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2020 Sessional Instructor. “Creative Processes” (FNDT 108 F197). 3 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Sessional Instructor. “Topics in Global Art” (AHIS 410 F001). Topic: “Art and Resistance in XX and XXI Century”. 3 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
2018 Sessional Instructor. “Studies in Illustration Genres” (HUMN 308 F001). “The Mighty Images: The Legacy of Baroque in Latin America” 3 Credits. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
CC – Canadian College
2021-23 Instructor. “Introductory Sociology”. 3 Credits. Vancouver, Canada.
2020-21 Instructor. “Sociology of the Family”. Two Sections (SOCI 13 C & D). 3 Credits. Winter (Jan-Apr) and Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
NEC – Native Education College
2020 Instructor. “Cross-Cultural Tourism” (TSM 125). 3 Credits. Aboriginal Tourism Operation Program. Winter (Jan-Apr). Vancouver, Canada.
2019 Instructor. “Computer Applications” (TSM 105). 3 Credits. Aboriginal Tourism Operation Program. Fall (Sept-Dec). Vancouver, Canada.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
Spanish, English, Portuguese (read and write 100%)
Nahuatl, Mexica (Aztec) Language – In progress
Italian – In progress