Raul Ferrera-Balanquet

Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet (PhD & MFA), an Indigenous Kairibe and Africana Arab Caribbean interdisciplinary artist, was born in Havana, Cuba. He received his PhD from Duke University, as well as his MFA from the University of Iowa. Ferrera-Balanquet is the author of Aestesis Decolonial Transmoderna Latinx_MX, (2019) and is currently the Co-Executive Director of Howard University’s Gallery of Art. Ferrera-Balanquet is a founder member of Latino Midwest Video Collective, Laboratorio Cartodigital, and the Afroyucatecxs collective.

His writings have appeared in Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2, UCLA; Bienal de La Habana Para leer, Universitat De Valencia, Spain; Inter, Art Actuael, No 102, Québec, Canada.

He has also exhibited his work at Haceres Decoloniales, Galeria ASAB, Bogota, Colombia; BE.BOP 2013 Black Europe Body Politics, Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany; “Cuba: La Isla Posible”, CCCB Barcelona, Spain. In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from Critical Minded, FONCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, ANAT-Australia, and The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation.

Dr. Ferrera-Balanquet is sharing “Nomad Dreams /Sueños Nómada” for the session “An Exhibition of Decolonial Transborder Art.” Nomad Dreams /Sueños Nómada is an experimental interactive documentary, game, and socially engaged performance interrogating the virtual and physical colonial mechanisms resulting from irregular population movements at the iron wall across the US-Mexico border.