Luis Berríos-Negrón

Luis Berríos Negrón is a Puerto Rican environmental artist and experimental architect researching decolonial forms and forces of climate injustice. He is an Associate Professor at Umeå University. Recent exhibitions and installations include “Tormentera (Refuge)”, Hosting Lands, DK, 2024-ongoing; “Estratas, viveros y entrañas / Strata, Nurseries, and Entrails”, Las Lunas, Caguas, PR, 2022; “Sin Título / Untitled”, POST, Houston, Texas, 2022; “Passage of the Specularium”, Onoma, Fiskars, FI, 2020; “Anarquivo Negantrópico”, Gammelgaard, DK, 2019; “Wardian Table at Agropoetics”, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, DE, 2019, “Impasse Finesse Neverness”, Museum of Ethnography and Archaeology of Bahia, Salvador, BRA, 2017; “Collapsed Greenhouse at Undisciplinary Learning”, District, Berlin, DE, 2016; “Earthscore Specularium”, Färgfabriken Konsthal, Stockholm, SE, 2015; and “Tear do Terreiro”, 3ra Bienal da Bahía, Salvador, BRA, 2014. He holds a BFA from Parsons New School (2003), and a MArch from MIT (2006). As Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Art and Architecture at the UmArts Research Centre and in partnership with Bildmuseet (2023-2024), he is concluding “Tree nurseries remediating of colonial memory of landscapes” (TBD, 2025). This is the continuation of a research residency titled “Strata, nurseries, and entrails” (2021-22) that took place within the ongoing, national post-hurricane reforestation project by Para La Naturaleza, Puerto Rico, and from his PhD dissertation in Art, Technology, and Design from Konstfack & KTH titled “Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures” (Konstfack Collection 2020). 

 

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