Biography
Felipe Castelblanco is a multidisciplinary artist, working at the intersection of participatory, film, and Media Art.
His work explores institutional forms and creates platforms for inter-epistemic dialogue in unlikely spaces. Felipe has exhibited at museums and galleries internationally, including ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Royal Academy in London (UK), Taoyuan Fine Arts Museum (TW), and the San Diego Museum (US) and has been the recipient of several international awards, including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (USA, 2019), Starr Fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools in London (2015).
Felipe holds an M.F.A from Carnegie Mellon University (US) and in 2021 completed a practice-based PhD from the Academy Art and Design Basel FHNW and the University of Arts Linz.
In 2011 he founded the Para-Site School, a parasitical nomadic educational platform serving underserved students; later in 2014 he served as a Cultural Emissary for the US State Department to the Philippines and in 2021 he was recognized by the Berlin-based Breaking Walls Foundation for his contributions to arts and society. In recent years, Felipe’s creative work has focused on developing avenues for biocultural peacebuilding in the Andean-Amazon foothills of Colombia by supporting diverse modes of vegetal and human cooperation, and fostering cultural diplomacy through sustained engagement with Indigenous, farmers and migrant communities and the international cultural, academic, and eco-political spheres.