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Mauricio Kabistan
Nicaragua, 1980.
Multidisciplinary artist. Lives and works in El Salvador, Central America. Currently, he's an artist and co-manager at The Fire Theory, co-curator at Luis Poma Theater Lobby Exhibitions Program in San Salvador and as a museographer and montage designer at Espacio 42B in Santa Tecla.
Participated in INTERGALACTIX against isolation curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions LACE, Los Angeles, USA; AL DICTADO ARTE Y CONFLICTO EN CENTROAMERICA, curated by Juan José Santos and Isabela Villanueva, MAMM Medellín, Colombia; “DONDE HUBO FUEGO…” part of “DIALOGOS EN EL ARTE SALVADOREÑO” curated by Simón Vega and Rafael Alas Vásquez, Art Museum of El Salvador MARTE; ICE, curated by Omar López-Chahoud, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; GOD UNITY LIBERTY, curated by Omar López-Chahoud, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway; X CENTRAL AMERICAN BIENNIAL, curated by Tamara Diaz Bringas, San Jose, Costa Rica; RELOCATING SAL curated by MARTE-C, HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; INDIGENOUS VOICES Latin American Pavilion – IILA 56. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte la Biennale di Venezia; VIII BIENNALE OF VISUAL ARTS OF CENTRAL AMERICAN ISTHMUS, Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City. Winner of the 2026 DAAD COLLECTIVE GRANT with The Fire Theory by The Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin, Germany; YES GRANT FOR ARTISTS 2017 from YES Contemporary, El Salvador; nominated for the Grant and Commissions program of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO, among other recognitions as First Prize “Rodolfo Molina” in SUMARTE 2016; Second Place, X Prize for Young Art, Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador. Curatorial short residency in 2021 at the Royal Academy of Spain IN ROME as part of “Reactivando Videografias” Program, Rome, Italy; residency in 2019 at Casa Tres Patios with The Fire Theory, Medellín; Colombia, among others recognitions. Publications on CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGES OF CENTRAL AMERICA by Luisa Fuentes Guaza, Editorial Turner; CENTROAMERICA EN ACCIÓN by Pancho López, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo MADC; AURALIDADES DE MUNDOS HERIDOS by Susan Campos Fonseca part of the book BORDER-LISTENING/ESCUCHA LIMINAL from Radical Sound Latin America, Berlin, Germany.