Juan Bastardo

Is a transnational artist born in Guadalajara, Mexico based between Mexico and California.

Combining sculpture, art installations and video involves concepts such as indeterminacy and hybridization, alongside manual and digital processes to question and reflect upon artifacts and their ability to modify and reinvent the individual, as well as their public, historical and contemporary discourses, and dimensions.

Recent works use gestures and processes taken from manual practices and digital cultures, focused on human and artifact as interfaces to inspect concepts re-design and bastardization, engaging questions on how technologies interact with and affects the physical body and their potentiality.

He holds an MFA from University of California, San Diego, a BFA degree in Visual Arts from the University of Guadalajara, and a BA degree in Design from the Bribiesca Art Institute in Mexico.

His work has been exhibited in places such as The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art in Riverside, the San Diego Art Institute (now ICA San Diego). The Armory Center for The Arts in Pasadena. The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) in San Bernardino. The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. Torrance Art Museum in Torrance. Vincent Price Museum in Los Angeles in California, as well as CECUT in Tijuana, Baja California, Museo de las Artes, Museo de la Ciudad, and Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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