Join Culture Club as Biennial Artist in Residence Victor Del Oral shares his process behind new works exploring writing, geometry, and metal, created during his time in Denver.

Biennial Artist in Residence

Victor Del Oral joins the Biennial of the Americas as our current Artist in Residence for a four-week residency in Denver. Rather than working in conventional language, Victor is keeping a diary written through sculptural inscriptions in aluminum, a material he treats simultaneously as surface, support, and writing tool. Twice a week, he'll create new pieces drawn directly from his walks, encounters, and observations across the city, building a body of work in real time as Denver shapes it.

At this Culture Club event, members will get a rare look inside that process: seeing how a place becomes material, and how writing can take physical, sculptural form.

About Victor

Victor Del Oral is a Mexico City–based artist whose decade-long practice centers on what he calls "lectoesculturas," or reading-sculptures: living installations that fuse body, space, and text into a single structure. He holds an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, Germany, and his work has been shown internationally, including at Manifesta 13 in Marseille, the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito, ACC Gallery in Weimar, and Mexico City's Museo Experimental El Eco. His honors include the CIFO Emerging Artist Award from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, a DAAD fellowship, and three-time recognition as a Mexican Young Creators Fellow; he is currently a Fellow of Mexico's National System of Art Creators. Across his work, Victor treats writing as a craft-based practice, one that questions the systems and materials we use to communicate, and imagines what language becomes when it's inscribed, incised, or built into space itself.