Artists

1992, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Juan Ignacio Cabruja is an experimental artist currently focusing his work on the pictorial exploration of light, its absence, and how it interacts with space and other materials. He understands the atmospheric as an aesthetic category that he constantly explores. He is interested in how the audience emotionally relates to the climates and atmospheres he generates. He works with elements and tools related to the night, in a sensitive way, trying to create suspended temporalities and spaces. He also often revisits historical paintings, generating citations by using the color maps of those works in an abstract manner.

He works as a lighting designer, visual artist, and creates light and interactive installations. He approaches this as a way to experiment and continue exploring the phenomenology of the different projects he develops.

He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the U.N.R. and explores different tools and theoretical and technical knowledge by attending various educational spaces. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in “Theory and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts” at UNTREF and “Ab – ele”, a space for choral exchange for project, curatorial, and editorial work taught by Carla Barbero and Javier Villa. In 2022, he completed the postgraduate program "Technologies in Contemporary Art. Update Program" (UBA). In 2021, he participated in the "Artist Program" taught by the Torcuato Di Tella University and in 2019, he completed "Escuela Prestada" at the J.M. Musto Municipal School, Rosario, a program that invited artists to work and engage with the school, its teachers, students, and workshops. He has also taken courses and clinics with renowned artists.

Some of the group exhibitions and presentations in which she has participated include the Salón Nacional Rosa Galisteo (2024); Premio Fundación Andreani (2023); XIII Bienal de Arte Sacro Contemporáneo (2023); Premio Argentino a las Artes Visuales de la Fundación OSDE (2021); and the 48º Salón Nacional de Tucumán de Artes Visuales (2020), among others.

Some of her solo exhibitions include Materia Difusa at Crudo, Buenos Aires (2025), curated by Rodrigo Alonso; Errantes. Una inclusión incierta del espacio público at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (2025); Rastro-Pulsión at Centro Histórico Museo La Manzana de las Luces/Bienal Sur, Buenos Aires (2023), curated by Florencia Battiti; Errantes. Una inclusión incierta del espacio público at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Zagreb (2023); Luz Mala at Satélite, Córdoba (2022); and Mediato at Crudo, Rosario (2021).

He currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Press and Digital Publications:

• Errantes. Inclusión incierta del espacio público en BIENAL SUR.
• Rastro pulsión en BIENAL SUR.