Draft:Victor Arroyo

Victor Arroyo is a video artist recognized for a style that combines community-based research with ethnography. His practice is situated in the crossfield between cinema and contemporary art. He studied visual arts, filmmaking, design art practices and social research methodologies at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and Concordia University in Canada. He holds a PhD in Humanities from Concordia University.

Artistic practice
His first video installation, Turcot, about the reconstruction of this multi-billion-mega-highway structure, resulting in the relocation of hundreds of local residents, premiered at the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA in 2012.

In 2021 he directed his first feature film, Cherán, about the P’urhépecha insurrection of 2011 in the forest of Michoacán, premiering at BIENALSUR, and followed by a presentation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA as well.

His work has been widely exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and festivals all around the world. Additionally, he has lectured at several institutions, such as Concordia University, Carleton University , and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image at the University of London.

Awards

 * DOXA Documentary Film Festival - Winner Short Documentary Award (2019)
 * Sheffield Doc/Fest - Nominee Doc/Dispatch Prize Best Short Documentary Film (2018)
 * Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire Montréal RIDM - Nominee Grand Prize National Short and Medium-Length Competition (2018)
 * Mitacs Globalink Research Award (2015)

Affiliations

 * Global Emergent Media Lab Member
 * Images Festival Board Member
 * Journal for Artistic Research Peer Reviewer