Cristián Velasco Chilean, b. 1971
Cristian is an interdisciplinary artist who, through the relationship between the body and objects, reflects on belonging, change, and memory—in essence, the human condition as seen through his poetic lens.
Cristián Velasco is a social communicator with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Finis Terrae University and a diploma in Art Anthropology from the Transdisciplinary Laboratory for Research and Reinvention in Mexico City. His work focuses on the individual and social space, exploring—through the domestic sphere, objects, and landscape—conceptual and aesthetic issues associated with the body and memory; the concepts of habitability, territory, identity, and time. Interested in the processes of creation and the intersection between industrial and artisanal work, his practice moves between painting and textiles, video, performance, objects, and installation.
Delving into the dialectic of objects, his interdisciplinary approach explores diverse fields of meaning, reflecting on aspects of contemporary societies through poetic and symbolic tensions surrounding the concepts of belonging, change, and transformation.
He has received grants on four occasions from the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage, and his work is included in the Luciano Benetton Collection (Italy), the Windsor & Newton Collection, the Compañía de Cervecerías Unidas (CCU) Collection (Chile), the Santa Cruz Museum of Contemporary Art (Bolivia), the Chiloé Museum of Modern Art (MAM) (Chile), the Ca. Sa Collection, Chile; the Arte Al Límite (AAL) Collection, Chile; the Antonio Miraldi Collection, Spain; the Under Armour Collection, Panama; and The Palmer Museum of Art at The Pennsylvania State University. Since 2011, he has been represented by Yam Gallery in Mexico, and his work is part of various private collections both in Chile and abroad.
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Cristián VelascoCombinado 1 (Multitasking 1), 2026Assembly of objects on a wooden panel.220 x 195 x 20 cm -
Cristián VelascoCombinado 2 (Multitasking 2), 2026Assembly of objects on a wooden panel.220 x 190 x 65 cm.
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Cristián VelascoGenética popular (Popular genetics), 2026Intervened clay pots. Pedestals with objectsVariable dimensions
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Cristián VelascoCartografía de sueños 1, El vuelo eterno de la paloma. (Mapping Dreams 1, The Eternal Flight of the Dove), 2025Objects and paint on a wool and polyester blanket.195 x 150 cm
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Cristián VelascoProblemas domésticos (Domestic problems), 2025Intervened ceramic platVariable dimensions
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Cristián VelascoEl reflejo de la conciencia (The reflection of consciousness), 2024Convex mirror and synthetic wig.50 x 25 x 10 cm
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Cristián VelascoEncuentro floral (Floral encounter), 2024Handmade flowers on a blanket.195 x 150 cm
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Cristián VelascoMáscara 1 (Mask 1), 2024Various objects on a blanket.195 x 150 cm
My work focuses on the individual and social space, exploring—through the domestic sphere, the collection of objects, and the landscape—conceptual and aesthetic issues associated with the concepts of habitability, territory, identity, and time. Interested in the processes of creation and the intersection between industrial and artisanal work, my practice spans painting, textiles, video, performance, objects, and installation.
I am interested in exploring the poetics of forms, the intersection of materials, origins, and textures, addressing the concepts of “performativity” and “fields of meaning,” in order to—from there—reflect on aspects of contemporary societies through symbolic intersections and the ideas of memory, aesthetics, change, and transformation.