As an artist and programmer, Abreu investigates art forms
generated with algorithmic processes and inserted into everyday
digital life.
His work takes multiple forms, such as installations, graphics,
sound art, interactive digital media and audiovisual concerts.
Abreu is interested in proposing to the observer and listener
new ways of relating to visuality, sound and space; Abreu
believes in the capacity for wonder as a way to highlight and
revitalize the conversation about social issues or about art
itself.
His work can be found in public collections such as FEMSA
Foundation, CINTAS Foundation, Patronage of the Historic Centre
(Mexico), Televisa Art Foundation, MUAC (Mexico City), and
Extremadura and Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art.
He has received awards, distinctions and residencies: The Lumen
Prize, 2023 Gold Award Winner, ZKM Residence – Center for Art
and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021), The Prix Ars Electronica
(Honorary Mention 2012, Linz, Austria); The CINTAS Foundation
Fellowship in Visual Arts, (2011-12, Miami, US). The National
System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the
Arts (Mexico, 2012-2014, 2017-2019 and 2022-2025). He was also
director of the 1st International Festival of Electronic Arts
Transito MX.
His work has been shown in exhibitions and spaces such as Impact
and Legacy: 50 years of the CINTAS Foundation. Big Bang Data,
Fundación Telefónica España. TEA: superconnected, National
Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Museum of
Contemporary Art of Monterrey and Antiguo Colegio de San
Ildefonso. Bienal Portugal Arte 10 EDP, Serendipity. Stanlee and
Gerald Rubin Center For The Visual Art. In/posición dinámica,
Ars Electronica, Alameda Art Laboratory and Cultural Center of
Spain. The Impolitics, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy;
among others.
CV
Awards, Distinctions & Residencies
The Lumen Prize, 2023 Gold Award Winner (London, UK) || Erasmus Fellowship, European Union Programme,TAI School of the Arts
(Madrid, 2024) || ZKM Production and
Research Residence – Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021)
|| Honorary Mention The Prix Ars Electronica
(Linz, Austria, 2012) || The CINTAS
Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts , (Miami, US, 2011-12)
|| Selected work at ISEA, International
Symposium on Electronic Art ( Montreal, 2020; and Korea, Asia Culture
Center, 2019) || The National System
of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (Mexico,
2012-2014, 2017-2019 and 2022-2025) || Support Program for Production and Research in Art and Media of the
National Center for the Arts. (Mexico, 2007), || Award from the Goethe Institute for the Media Facade. (Mexico, 2005)
among others.
Selected Solo Shows
Evidence, Museum of the University of Guanajuato (2021) || Helical, Museum of Modern Art, site-specific sound project, México
D.F, (2016) || Looming, The Front Gallery,
San Diego, US, Translocality project room (2015) || Premature, Casa del Lago, University Cultural Center Juan José Arreola
(2014) || Triangulation (1), Sonnenschein
Gallery, Lake Forest, Chicago, US (2014) || Triangulation (2), Albright Gallery, Lake Forest, Chicago, US (2014)
|| Multiple vortex tornado, Greusslich
(2013). Contemporary, Berlin, Germany || Climate Agent, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City (2012) || Decúbito, Casa Vecina, Mexico City (2012) || M(r.p.m.) Deutschlandlied, Greusslich Contemporary Gallery, Berlín
(2011) || Segundo Aire, Galeria Nina
Menocal, Mexico City (2010) || Safe,
Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City (2009) || 23.90 mts, site-specific sound project: Trolebús, Mexico City (2009)
|| Bubble Level, El Eco Experimental
Museum, Mexico City (2008) || Unswitchable
(suspension due to freezing), Board of Trustees of the Historical Center,
Mexico City (2007) || Art Statement
Markup Language. Alameda Art Laboratory, Mexico City (2003)
|| Panopticon. La Torre de los Vientos,
Mexico City (2002).
Selected Collective exhibitions
Custodia.place, Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro (Mexico,
2023) || Attack from the codes, Interactive
Museum of Puebla (Mexico, 2023) ||
26th International Symposium on Electronic Art Video //PLAY: On-Site
Moving Programme, Montreal (2020) || Impakt Festival, Sound of One Computer Thinking, Center for Media Culture,
Nederlands (2019) || Big Bang Data,
Fundación Telefónica España & Centro de Cultura Digital CCD, Ciudad de
México (2017) || Zonamaco Mexico Arte
Contemporaneo, International Art Fair (2017)
|| Resonancias desde el jardín de las
delicias, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City (2016) || X Bienal Internacional de Arte SIART 2016 || Cibergeografias, Centro Cultural de España (Av. Camacho), La Paz, Bolivia
(2016) || La Estela en el Horizonte,
Casa del Lago, Centro Cultural Universitario Juan José Arreola (2015)
|| Bruit Noir / Black Noise, Rue Peel,
Montreal (2015) || Zonamaco Mexico
Arte Contemporaneo, International Art Fair (2014)
|| Dia Art Center, New York, Collaboration
with Iñaki Bonillas, (2014) ||
Impact and Legacy: 50 years of the CINTAS Foundation, Freedom Tower,
Miami, US (2014) || NETescopio, Edith-Russ-Haus
for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany (2014) || TEA: superconnected, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2013)
|| Teoría de la entropía, Centro cultural
Tijuana, Mexico (2013) || X Bienal
Monterrey FEMSA, MARCO, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso
|| CCB Contemporary, Centro Cultural
El Bosque, Mexico City (2012) || X
Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey,
Mexico (2012) || NETescopio: Centro
de Exposiciones SUBTE, Montevideo, Uruguay (2012) || Bienal Portugal Arte 10 EDP, The first edition of the International
Survey of the Contemporary Art Serendipity (2010) || Archivo: trabajo de campo, muestra en 11th aluCine Toronto Latin Film
& Media Arts Festival (2010) || Contra
Flujo: Independence And Revolution at Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center
For The Visual Art (2020) || In/posición
dinámica, Ars Electronica, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda Y Centro Cultural
de España, Festival del Centro (2010) || Los Impolíticos, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy (2009). Nkisi
Project, Miami FL (2009) || Distortions:
Contemporary Media Art from Mexico, The College Art Gallery, New Jersey
(2009) || The NTU School of Art, Design
and Media, Singapore (2009) || Desmontaje,
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
(2008) || V Muestra de Arte Sonoro:
Fragmentos Sonoros. Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City (2007) || Feria ARCO. Madrid, Spain (2006) || Data Space. ARCO. Museo Conde Duque. Madrid, Spain (2005) || e-maxico. Museo Rufino Tamayo, selección de netart México. Mexico City
(2004) || LatinoNetarte.net. Java Museum. (2003) || Panóptico (la torre de los vientos). Feria de Arte Art Basel Miami.
Presentó: PAC (Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo). Miami, USA (2002).
Selected Concerts and A/V Performances
Programmers and Violins: Open Media Unit of the 2023 Cross-Media Art
Festival (Shanghai, CH) ||
Medialab Matadero, (Madrid, Spain, 2023) || Cutout Fest, Museum of the City (Queretaro, 2023) || ICLC, International Conference on Live Coding, Creative Coding Utrecht,
(Netherlands.2023) ||
Algorithmic Art Assembly, Gray Area Grand Theater (San Francisco, 2022)
|| Festival Internacional Mutek México
(2022) || ZKM - Center for Art and
Media (Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021) || Live coding + VR, Festival Internacional Mutek México-Japón (2020)
|| Visiones Sonoras 16, Festival Internacional
de Música y Nuevas Tecnologías (2020) || Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces performance and craft, sound sculpture
performing, University of Durham, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary
University of London y Deutsches Museum Research Institute / FoAM Kernow
(2020) || Reudo Fest 20, Perú, (2020)
|| Act Festival Food Hack 2019 || ISEA 2019, Coding In Atypical Places, Live Coding Act (2019) || Mutek Mexico, live act with CNDSD (2019) || Mutek Montreal, live act with CNDSD (2018) || NeumaT, Visiones Sonoras, Festival Internacional de Música y Nuevas
Tecnologías, Morelia (2015) ||
Post-consumer sound waste site-specific sound project: Border, Art Center,
Mexico City (2008), Festival bend++ opus., Tokyo Polytechnic University,
Department of Media Art: Kanta Horio lab. Tokio, Japón (2006), Museo
XTeresa Arte Actual, Mexico City (2006) || ASML sequencer (visual-sound performing) || Media Art Fest: BigBlip05. Brighton, UK (2005).
Teaching Experiencess
Head and co-creator of the study programs at the University
Center for Design, Cinema and Television in Mexico (2013-2018):
1) Bachelor's Degree in Interaction and Digital Media, 2)
Specialty in Creative Code for Design, 3) Specialty in Creative
Code for Animation and Video and 4) Specialty in Data
Visualization.
Masterclass and workshops at the International Live Coding
Conference (2023) || the Bogotá
Cinematheque (2023) || Conservatory
of Music in Antwerp || HKU Games
at Interactive School, Utrecht (2023) || Medialab Matadero, Madrid (2023) || The Networked Imagination Laboratory ,McMaster University, School
of Intermedia Art (2023) || Academy
of Arts China, Shanghai (2023), etc.
Cultural Management and Curatorship
Director of the 1st Transito MX International Electronic Arts
Festival and curator of the second edition of this festival || Curator of media art and sound art programs at the Border Cultural
Center || Co-founder and co-organizer
of the Dorkbot Mexico project || Jury
and Mentor of the Young Creators fellowship from the National Fund for
the Arts of Mexico, among others.
Bibliography
Gaming Utopia, Ludic Worlds in Art, Design and Media, Claudia Costa
Pederson, Indiana University Press, Printed in the United States of
America, 2021. || Latin America, Modern
and Contemporary Art, Femsa Collection, Printed in Mexico, 2015. || Tea/Super Connect, International Techno Art Exhibition, National Taiwan
Museum of Fine Art, Shu Min Li, Printed in Taiwan, 2012 || Trolebus 2005-2009, published by Ariadna Ramonetti, Printed in Mexico,
2010 || Contraflow, Independence and
Revolution, The Stanlee and Rubin Center for the Visual Art at The University
of Texas at El Paso, printed in U.S., 2010 || [IN] Posición Dinámica, Ars Electronica MX, English / Español , printed
in Mexico, 2010 || Los Impolíticos,
Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Coedited by Electa Napoli and Palazzo delle
Arti Napoli, curated by Laura Bardier, English / Italiano, printed in
Italy, 2010 || Código D.F. Arte y Cultura
Contemporánea desde la Ciudad de México, English / Español , printed
in Mexico, 2010 || Transitio_mx 02,
Fronteras, Editado por Consejo Nacional para las Cultura y las Artes
(CONACULTA), Printed in Mexico, 2009 || Artes y Medios Audiovisuales. Un estado de situación, Jorge Laferla
(compilador), Español, published by *Aurelia Rivera - Nueva Librería,
printed in Buenos Aires, 2007.
Public collections
FEMSA Foundation, CINTAS Foundation || Patronage of the Historic Centre (Mexico), || Televisa Art Foundation, || MUAC
(Mexico City), || Extremadura and Ibero-American
Museum of Contemporary Art || Guanajuato
University Museum
Degrees
- Bachelor of Informational Design by the Higher Institute of
Design of Havana
- Master of Engineering in Information Technology by Universidad
Anáhuac * credits completed