Published Writing:

The Border Regime, the Political Dimension of Migratory Childhoods, and Hacking as a Strategy for Transformation, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana in interview with migratologist Valentina Glockner. University of Colorado, Boulder, 2024.

Playa Bagdad / SpaceX: Transboundary Noise, the Colonial Voids of Infrastructure, and Counter-Archiving as a Place-Making Practice in Vistas Journal by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). New York City, US, 2024.

A narration of x-o.global: first steps towards the perversion of GPS in the tropical cartographies of Latin American migration in Sociology Lens: Cerceral Edgelands. Alberta, Canada, 2023.

Playa Bagdad / SpaceX: Sound, Necropolitics, and the Industrialization of Space in xCoAx Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. Porto, Portugal, 2022.

x-o.global: GPS, cartografías sonoras y la digitalidad migrante in Toda la Teoría del Universo. Concepción, Chile; 2022.

Playa Bagdad / SpaceX: reflejos de ruido in Centro de la Imagen. Mexico City, Mexico; 2022.




Jerónimo Reyes-Retana is a researcher and artist. An impulse to cultivate compositional forces through long-term projects guides his practice into the fissures (dis)connecting governance regimes built upon technological superiority. By the contingent implementation of relational and reflexive methodologies in peripheral sites across Latin America, Reyes-Retana examines hybrid territorialities exposed to the social, environmental, and economic anxieties derived from the techno-utopian determinisms of Western culture. In his work, these places act as nerve centers to interrogate the political anatomy of a global design, where practices of systemic erasure are still obscured by the seductive fictions of modern/colonial progress. Reyes-Retana’s artistic and investigative interests gravitate toward a situated mode of praxis, deploying various mediation technologies as instruments of inquiry, place-making, and counter-archiving. This approach fosters dialogic relationships that inform installations and community-based iterations, striving to open pathways of epistemic disobedience to alternative political imaginaries.

Reyes-Retana’s work has been showcased in solo exhibitions at various institutions and non-profit venues, including the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MX), Mario Kreuzberg in Basel (CH), Big Medium and Co-Lab Projects in Austin (US). In 2019, the Mexico City-based gallery OMR commissioned his site-responsive installation Map of a Twin Mind. In 2020, Reyes-Retana participated in the notable group exhibition Otrxs Mundxs at Mexico’s renowned art institution, Museo Tamayo. In 2024, he was selected as the commissioned artist for the central patio installation of Salón Acme’s eleventh edition in Mexico City, where he presented A Fountain (Different Dissents). That same year, he also participated in the Texas Biennial. Reyes-Retana’s community-based initiative, Public Art Program: For a Shared (Outer) Space at Playa Bagdad—a marginalized settlement impacted by transboundary sonic violence from SpaceX’s launch port on the US-Mexico borderlands—was awarded the Public and Educational Program grant by Museo Jumex in Mexico. In 2025, Reyes-Retana is scheduled for a solo exhibition at Lodos gallery in Mexico City.

Reyes-Retana is a doctoral candidate in Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned his MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from the University of Texas at Austin, where he received the FONCA-CONACYT Fellowship from the Mexican National Council for Arts, Culture, and Technology. Additionally, Reyes-Retana has participated in parallel education programs such as Materia Abierta and Soma Summer in Mexico City. He has also taken part in artist residencies at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy; Toda la Teoría del Universo in Concepción, Chile; Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, Mexico; and Ucross in Wyoming.

Reyes-Retana is an educator who teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder (US), and Centro, Mexico City (MX).