Víctor del Oral
2026 Biennial x Salón Acme Residency Award
Presented for the second consecutive year in partnership with Salón ACME in Mexico City, the Salón Prize offers one of their participating art week artist’s a 4–6 week residency in Colorado.
Since 2015, the Biennial of the Americas Artist Residency Program has fostered cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States through residencies, partnerships, and public programming. It supports artists in expanding their practice, networks, and audiences.
Víctor del Oral
Is a visual and textual artist living and working between Mexico City, Weimar and Berlin, Germany. His work moves between sculpture, words, installation and body.
“I am a textual artist moving through sculpture, language, installation, and the body. My work reveals the vulnerability and transience of writing systems and supports, questioning the limits of communication.
I see writing as a craft that binds geometry and viscera, and identity as an ongoing negotiation between language and landscape. I build inhabitable texts through performative mechanisms.
Through neologisms and installations, I shift words toward their material dimension, unsettling dominant Western writing forms—including the alphabet. For the past 10 years, I have developed “Lectoesculturas”: living texts that fuse body, space, and writing”
- Víctor del Oral
