Luis Andrés López García

Quito-Ecuador (1996). He is a visual artist, teacher, and independent curator. He completed the Baccalaureus Artium Contemporary Arts from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (2018) with a minor in Art History, thanks to the Michelangelo scholarship granted by the institution. He has worked as a teaching assistant in Philosophical Readings and Philosophy of Art. In 2021 he completed the postgraduate diploma in Art Applied to Society from Überbau_house. He is currently pursuing the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the prestigious Royal College of Art (2024). He was a former member of the Eukarya art collective (2017-2019), where he produced large-scale artworks and exhibitions of diverse artistic projects. He worked as an assistant at the Khôra gallery (2017) under the direction of the director Anamaría Garzón. He worked at USFQ Press (2019-2020) as a coordinator of academic journals and monographs. He worked at ISM Quito as a Visual Arts Teacher in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (2020-2023). He was the museography and mediation assistant for the NAW exhibition at La Vitrina within the framework of the XIV Cuenca Biennial (2018). His recent work is curatorial, and he has had exhibitions at El Domo (Fretless Foundation), Toquilla Casa de Arte (Macas), USFQ, ISM Quito Chawpi, No Lugar, Puente Art Lab, Khôra, Espacio Violenta (Guayaquil), Cumandá Urban Park and the Contemporary Art Center of Quito. In January 2019, he participated in the HABEAS DATA VI residency for Contemporary Art Research at Überbau_house (São Paulo-Brazil) and published the research fanzine RHIZOME. He lives and works in London, United Kingdom.