Federico Pérez Villoro (b. 1987, Guadalajara) lives and works in Mexico City. He is an artist and researcher that through installations, essays, software and videos, explores the ways in which power is exercised through computational technologies. His recent projects address the history of the domestication of rivers and other bodies of water and the imposition of technical operativity upon living ecosystems.
His work has been exhibited internationally and published by ADOCS, DELUS, The Seving Library, Printed Matter, Source Type, C Magazine, Gato Negro Ediciones, diSONARE and The Gradient at the Walker Art Center. His research has appeared in journalistic media such as Quinto Elemento Lab, The New York Times, Aristegui Noticias, among others. He has taught at Rhode Island School of Design; US and California College of the Arts, US; and lectured at universities such as New York University, US; ETH Zurich, CH; Rutgers University, US; CalArts, US; The New School, US; UNAM, MX; Escuela de Artes Jalisco, MX; and Hongik University, Seoul, KR. In 2023 he received the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo Sponsorship Grant and was awarded the C/Change grant by the Goethe-Institut and Grey Area in San Francisco, US. That same year he was a resident at Pivô Pesquisa in São Paulo, BR. In 2019 he founded Materia Abierta, a summer school on theory, art and technology in Mexico City that has been developed with the support of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Museo Tamayo, Casa del Lago UNAM, MX; KADIST, US; among other organizations. In 2013 he received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, US.