Joaquín Stacey-Calle

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Joaquín Stacey-Calle
Joaquín Stacey-Calle (b. 2000) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Born in Quito, Ecuador, much of Joaquín’s multidisciplinary work is rooted in his place of birth, as well as his more recent homes of Miami and Los Angeles. Inspired by the local architecture and natural landscape of these places, Joaquín’s gestural abstractions explore identity, memory, and the transience that is inherent to the immigrant experience. Joaquín’s artistic process begins by sourcing from the extensive collection of family photographs taken by his father; rendering these images in oil, Joaquín consciously layers and omits paint—a process that results in a visual metaphor for the fragility of memory. In his paintings, photographs, and installations, everyday scenes are transformed into post-colonial and post-structuralist ruminations on the importance of processing the past to generate a new future.

Joaquín graduated with a BFA from Florida International University in 2022 and is set to graduate with an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2024. His work has been exhibited throughout Miami and Los Angeles and internationally in Alicante, Spain and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Joaquín’s work has notably been featured in a solo exhibition at The Laundromat Art Space in 2022, and in group exhibitions at The Bass Museum in 2020 and the Beaux Arts Museum in 2018. Joaquín has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Anderson Ranch Scholarship and Otis Academic Scholarship in 2023 and the Ellies Grant and Betty Laird Perry Award in 2022. Joaquín will take part in the 2023 Bakehouse Art Complex Summer Open, which he was a part of last year as well. He is a member of Comedor Azul, an artist collective consisting of himself, Amaris Cruz-Guerrero, and Leslie Gomez-Gonzalez.
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