Esteban Rafael Pérez is an artist working in video, sound, and installation. Through processual and relational strategies, he develops long-term research projects that explore non-human perspectives and the agency of matter. His practice is articulated through reciprocal modes of engagement with non-western knowledges, collaborators, and more-than-human entities.
1992 Born in Quito, Ecuador
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
2025 Meisterschüler, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
2024 SOMA Academic Program, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 MFA, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver, Canada
2018 BFA Contemporary Arts, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
2024Umoinflorescencia, Sólida Galería, Oaxaca, Mexico
ASHGRANXX3, Poste Audio at Centre CLARK, Montreal, Canada
2022Palimpsestuous Oscillations, SBC galerie d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2021Liquid Land, RBC Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2019Transitorio, Más Arte Galería, Quito, Ecuador
2026Bienal de Arte y Nuevos Medios VIDEOAKT, Lima, Perú
you are warmly invited, HB55 Kunstfabrik, Berlin
2025Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito
Rundgang, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
Protocols, Pandora Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Guest Book, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, Canada
2024Un mundo feliz, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
Open Studios #3, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, France
2023POWERMEX, BLECH, Halle, Germany
Experimental Loop, 405-B Colonels Row Gallery, Governors Island, New York
Barbecho, Munive Arte Contemporáneo, Tlaxcala, Mexico
2022Multiverso 001, Q Galería, Quito, Ecuador
Abya Yala: Orígenes Estructurales, New York Latin American Art Triennial, NY
2021Carry-On!, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
Beyond the Horizon, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Vancouver, Canada
MFA grad show, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Radical (Re)Worlding, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Response: Our Land Narrative, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020MFA Interim Show, Michael O'Brien Exhibition Commons, Vancouver, Canada
2019Especial de Navidad 2.0, No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador
MFA Open Studio, Emily Carr University of Arts + Design, Vancouver, Canada
Habitual, No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador
2018Triplete, No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador
Dissipare, Galería Khora, Quito, Ecuador
2017Premio Brasil, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador
San Violentín, Pentasiete Art Studio, Quito, Ecuador
2024Ruina Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico
2022SBC galerie d'art contemporain Residency, Montreal, Canada
Empire of Dirt Residency, Creston, Canada
2021Similkameen Studio Residency Award, Griffin Foundation, Keremeos, Canada
Wedge Residency, Contemporary Art Gallery and Ground Floor, Vancouver, Canada
Satellite Residency, Shumka Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2026Premio Nacional de Artes Mariano Aguilera, Honourable Mention, Ecuador
2025BUAM 2nd Prize – Acquisition Award, Ecuador
2021Vancouver Art Attack Award, Honourable Mention, Canada
Satellite Award, Shumka Centre, Canada
2020The Audain Travel Award, The Audain Foundation, Canada
2026Volcanic Futures, XV International Bauhaus Colloquium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
2025Volcanic Futures, Research Ecologies Colloquium, Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences, Germany
2022Palimpsestuous Oscillations' Talk, SBC galerie d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Wedge Output, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Positionality Symposium: Questioning Mestizaje, Sur Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Similkameen Artist Talk, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
2020First Nations Data Sovereignty and Research Creation, ECUAD, Vancouver, Canada
Earth Project Talk, grunt gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2024Cómo pelar una naranja, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
2022Voicing Abstraction / Wave #7, Infrasonica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021Satellite x Activism, Shumka Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Contingencias, Modos de Habitar y Disidencias, Más Arte Galería, Quito, Ecuador
2025Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2024HEROINE, Frankfurt, Germany
2022Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Vancouver, Canada
2020Third Realm Filmmaking, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
BUAM Collection, Quito, Ecuador
Log House Collection, Keremeos, Canada
The Human Resources Department permanent collection, ECUAD, Vancouver, Canada