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 within the
colonial voids
of Latin America. Reyes-Retana defines colonial voids as populations and territories threatened by practices of erasure intrinsic to the pursuit of progress. Through community-based strategies grounded in
listening
and in the implementation of investigative aesthetics, his practice scrutinizes regimes of (in)visibility by working directly with those affected. His work has been exhibited at
Museo Tamayo
, MX;
Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez
, MX;
Ars Electronica
, AT;
Lodos
, MX;
Denver Art Museum
, US;
Museum of Latin American Art
, US;
Co-Lab Projects
, US;
Mario Kreuzberg
, CH;
Distant Gallery
, NL;
Ucross Foundation
, US;
Black Cube
, US; and
Liste
, CH; among others. His writing and research have appeared in publications and programs by the
The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
;
xCoAx: Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
;
Toda la Teoría del Universo
;
Storefront for Art and Architecture
;
Ellipses: Journal for Creative Research
;
Sociology Lens: Carceral Edgelands
, the
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
,
LA ESCUELA___/MoMA PS1
; and
Earshot: Agency of Sonic Investigation
. Reyes-Retana has received the FONCA-CONACYT Fellowship through the Mexican National Council for Arts, Culture, and Technology, as well as the Public and Educational Program Grant from
Fundación Jumex
in Mexico City for his community-based initiative
Public Art Program: For a Shared (Outer)Space
in Playa Bagdad, Tamaulipas, MX. His film installation
Void in Resonance
received the
CIFO-Ars Electronica Award 2025
. Reyes-Retana is currently a doctoral candidate in Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State University.
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