ESTEBAN PÉREZ (b. 1992 in Quito, Ecuador) graduated from Emily Carr University of Arts + Design with an MFA degree in 2021. His work has been part of exhibitions such as: ‘Radical Reworlding’ (AHVA Gallery UBC, 2021), ‘Triplete’ (No Lugar, 2018), and Premio Brasil (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, 2017), and in 2019 he had his first solo show Transitory (Más Arte, 2019). In 2020, he was the recipient of The Audain Travel Award in Vancouver.
In the same year, he won the 2nd Place Award in RAW, an MFA online exhibition, organized by the University of Montana, USA. He was selected for the Premio Brasil–Arte Emergente (CAC), an award funded by the Brazilian embassy in Quito for the promotion of Emerging Artist.
Master of Fine Arts, 2021, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver, Canada
Contemporary Arts degree, 2018, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Liquid Land, RBC Media Gallery at Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, April 2021, Vancouver
Transitorio, Más Arte Galería, May 2019, Quito
Beyond the Horizon curated by Karl Hipol, Gordon Smith Gallery, September 2021, North Vancouver
MFA grad show curated by Pablo de Ocampo, Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, May 2021, Vancouver
Radical (Re)Worlding, AHVA Gallery at University of British Columbia, March 2021, Vancouver
Response: Our Land Narrative, The Polygon Gallery, March 2021, Vancouver
Raw, MFA Online Exhibition,2nd Place Award, University of Montana, October 2020, Montana
MFA Interim Show curated by Candice Hopkins, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, September 2020, Vancouver
Especial de Navidad 2.0, No Lugar, December 2019, Quito
MFA Open Studio, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, November 2019, Vancouver
Habitual, No Lugar, September 2019, Quito
Tushuc Festival, La casa catapulta, August 2019, Quito
Ahora o nunca, Lokumbia Festival, January 2019, Quito
Objeto Encontrado/Triplete, No lugar, August 2018, Quito
Dissipare, Galería Khora, 2018, Quito
Libre, La Torera Galería, 2018, Quito
Premio Brasil, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo 2017-2018, Quito
San Violentín, Pentasiete Art Studio, 2017, Quito
Anti-Racism Student Action + Respond (ARSAR) Fund, 2021, Emily Carr University of Art +Design, Vancouver
Summer Microgrant, 2020, Emily Carr University of Art +Design, Vancouver
Entrance Scholarship, 2019, Emily Carr University of Art +Design, Vancouver
Academic Merit Scholarship, 2017-2018, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Vancouver Art Attack Award, Honourable Mention 2021, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver
Satellite Residency Award by the Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, 2021, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver
The Audain Foundation Travel Award, 2020, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver
2nd Place Award,2020, Raw MFA Online Exhibition, University of Montana, USA
Teaching Fellowship, DRWG 309 Narrative Images class, Spring 2021, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver
ECUAD Similkameen Studio Residency Award, Griffin Art Projects, September – October 2021, Griffin Foundation, Vancouver
Wedge Residency at the CAG, July – August 2021, Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) and Ground Floor, Vancouver
Satellite Residency program by the Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, 2021, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver
“Open doors to art” artist talk programmed during the Wedge Residency at the CAG for the VLACC, July 15, 2021, Vancouver.
Earth Project talk for the First Nations Data Sovereignty and Research Creation: Communities of Practice Workshop, 2020 part of the series of Digital + Creative Knowledge Sharing at Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver
Earth Project talk for Sue Shon’s class Critical Race Theory, 2020, at Grunt Gallery and Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. Volume 2 Issue 1, June 2021, Cappadocia University, Turkey Click here
Contingencias, Modos de Habitar y Disidencias: libro conmemorativo, 2021, Más Arte Galería, Quito
SPACE(S), Woo Publication, Fall 2020, Vancouver
Premio Brasil exhibition catalogue, 2017, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Quito
The Polygon Podcast, Ep 16. - Response: Our Land Narrative