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ILIAN ARVELO

Is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist born in Caracas and based in Miami. She studied Fine Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and contemporary dance in Caracas. Her practice encompasses performance, video, photography, installation, and new media, exploring memory, migration, identity, transformation, and the relationship between the body and territory.

Her work has been presented internationally at the Venice Biennale Sessions, Venice Architecture Biennale, Miami New Media Festival, Photo Alicante Festival, Art Palm Beach, and Arturo Michelena Biennial.

Recent projects include Cartografía de la Memoria, Full Red, Vertebrates, and Shifting Latitude. In 2026, she presented the video artwork Virgin with Termites with the Glacsystems Collective at the Pavilion of New Guinea during the Venice Biennale.

Arvelo is currently an artist-in-residence at Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA), where she develops interdisciplinary, research-based projects.

EDUCATION:

2011 — Photography Studies, Nelson Garrido Organization (ONG), Caracas, Venezuela.

2008 — Diploma in Fine Arts, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

2018 — Certified Body Therapist and Pilates Coach, Miami, Florida, USA.

2006 — Advanced Workshop with Jannis Kounellis, Milan, Italy.

National School of Contemporary Dance, Caracas, Venezuela.

Cándido Millán School of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 — Cartografía de la Memoria. Interdisciplinary installation, video, photography,
and performance project. Curated by Félix Suazo. ID Art Lab, Miami, Florida, USA.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS

  • 2026

    Virgin with Termites (2013), video art. Glacsystems Collective, Pavilion of New Guinea,
    Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

  • Threads of Time, video installation. First Prize, MIFA Residents Annual Exhibition, MIFA Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.

    Pinta Art Fair, participating artist, Miami, Florida, USA.

    Clandestina Art Fair, participating artist, Miami, Florida, USA.

    Relative Abstraction, performance, Doral International Art Fair (DIAF), Doral, Florida, USA.

    Latinas Sing of Nature, Miami Dade College Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.

    Shifting Latitude: Weaving Stories, MIFA Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA. CV_ILIAN_ARVELO_2026_actualizad…

    2025

  • 2024

    Laberinto de Falopio: Tribute to Roberto Fabelo, ID Art Lab, Miami, Florida, USA.

  • Vertebrates, performance, Dossier Exhibition. Curated by Félix Suazo and Domingo De Lucia, Miami, Florida, USA.

    Miami New Media Festival, invited performer and juror (2023–2024). Curated by Andreina Fuentes; produced by Milagros González, Miami, Florida, USA.

    2023

  • 2022

    Bienal Wynwood — 25 Countries, M Art Spaces, Miami, Florida, USA.
    Metafluxus    , multimedia performance. Curated by Félix Suazo, ID Art Lab, Miami, Florida,
    USA.
    Placebo Art Show Night.     Curated by Félix Suazo, ID Art Lab, Miami, Florida, USA

  • Multimedia Art Actions 2021, Performances Night ID Art Lab group produced by Domingo de Lucia

    2021

  • 2020

    Mi Art Space Photography Art Show  2020 work as a Juror

    Base  Art  Line  Collective Exhibition  2020, with ID Art Lab group  curators Félix Suazo, Domingo de Lucia and Pía Cruzalegui.

    Border Line  Collective Exhibition  2020, with ID Art Lab group  curators Félix Suazo, Domingo de Lucia and Pía Cruzalegui.

  • Miami New Media Festival 2019,  Miami EEUU.

    +58ART, Canvas Miami Gallery Miami EEUU.

    Mother , I see Mayself  in your eyes , Concret  Space ,curator Dayaliz Gonsalez, Miami EEUU.

    Photoalicante  Fest, Alicante  Spain.

    Art  Palm Beach  2019, GBG gallery curator  Alejandra Mendez, West Palm Beach EEUU.

    2019

  • 2018

    Coral Gable art night show, Miami EEUU.

    Collection Suites , DORCAM, Painting, Sculpture and Design  curator  Jorge Gutierrez,       Miami-EEUU.

  • Energy, Circularity, and Transformation (participation as artist and curators), Miami EEUU.

    Miami New Media Festival 2017,  Miami EEUU.

    Video Art session Glacsystem art lab space, Miami Florida 2017.

    2017

  • 2016

    Venta /Matic. Miss Wynwood, Miami-EEUU.

    Graphics Semiotics in the MACZUL, Contemporary Art Museum of Zulia, Maracaibo- Venezuela.

    Symbiotic Graphics Abra Caracas Gallery Los Galpones Art Center

    Caracas-Venezuela.

  • Border Line, Collective Photographic D´ Museo Gallery Caracas – Venezuela.

    III Photography Festival Mérida Photo (special guests) Merida – Venezuela.

    P.I.G.S Traveling Exhibition of contemporary art Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain.

    2015

  • 2014

    67 Biennial Arturo Michelena Room, Valencia – Venezuela.

    City Video Fest, Valencia – Spain.

    Arte e Cittá. Biennale Sessions , Biennale di Venezia, Venice Italy.

  • Arte e Cittá, Museo Tuscolano, Rome Italy.

    The right to the city and the Art Practice, Il diritto alla cittá e le praxeis dell´Arte.

    Marinonni Theater , Biennale di Venezia, Italy.

    2013

  • 2011

    Collective Exposition of Video Art Migrating, Urban, and Intimate, Contemporary Art Museum of Carcacas, Caracas Venezuela.

  • International Biennial of Video Art, Los Andes University, Curator Benjamin Villarez, Merida Venezuela.

    International Encounter of Multimedia Art French Alliance, Won awarded with the 3rd Price, Caracas Venezuela.

    International Biennial Asymmetry Video Art Fest . Cusco, Peru.

    Biennale di Architettura di Venezia. Padiglione Carlos Scarpa (Venezuela), Venice Italy.

    2010

  • 2008

    Archetype, Imaginary y Myths Venice – Italy

  • Collective sample of Fuorimisura Art, Outdoor Art curatori Massimo Mazzone, Umbria Italy.

    Biennale di Architettura di Venezia Padiglione Carlos Scarpa (Venezuela) Venice, Italy

    2006

  • 2005

    Contemporary Collecctive Art (2nd Place Awared), Palazzo Reale. Milan Italy Collective. Exhibition, Tusculano´s Museum, Rome Italy.

    Mostra Internazionale di video arte, Pescara Italy.

  • Video Zero Collettiva, Selected Videos. Accademia di Brera, Milan

    Misto Bosco Collective Exhibition. Collateral Events in the MIART Milan Italy

    2002

  • 2003

    Contemporary Collecctive Art (2nd Place Awared), Palazzo Reale. Milan Italy

    Collective Exhibition, Tusculano´s Museum. Rome Italy

    Mostra Internazionale di video arte. Pescara Italy

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

67th Arturo Michelena Biennial, Valencia, Venezuela.
City Video Fest, Valencia, Spain.
Arte e Città, Biennale Sessions, Venice Biennale, Italy.
The Right to the City and Art Practice, Venice Biennale, Italy.
Migrating, Urban and Intimate, video art, MACC, Caracas, Venezuela.
International Biennial of Video Art, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela.
Asymmetry Video Art Festival, Cusco, Peru.
Venice Architecture Biennale, Padiglione Carlo Scarpa, Venice, Italy.
Archetype, Imaginary and Myths, Italy.
Fuorimisura. Curated by Massimo Mazzone, Umbria, Italy.
Museo Tuscolano, Rome, Italy.
Mostra Internazionale di Video Arte, Pescara, Italy.
P.I.G.S. Contemporary Art Itinerant Project, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain.

CURATORIAL & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2023–2024 — Invited performer and juror, Miami New Media Festival, Miami, Florida,
USA.
2020 — Juror, Photography Art Show, M Art Spaces, Miami, Florida, USA.
2017 — Artist and co–curator, Energy, Circularity and Transformation, Miami, Florida,
USA.
2017 — Miami New Media Festival, Miami, Florida, USA.
2017 — Glacsystem Art Lab — Video Art Session, Miami, Florida, USA.

EDUCATION

2011 — Photography Studies, Nelson Garrido Organization (ONG), Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 — Diploma in Fine Arts, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

2018 — Certified Body Therapist and Pilates Coach, Miami, Florida, USA.
2006 — Advanced Workshop with Jannis Kounellis, Milan, Italy.
National School of Contemporary Dance, Caracas, Venezuela.
Cándido Millán School of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.
2022
Bienal Wynwood — 25 Countries, M Art Spaces, Miami, Florida, USA.
Metafluxus, multimedia performance. Curated by Félix Suazo, ID Art Lab, Miami, Florida,
USA.
Placebo Art Show Night. Curated by Félix Suazo, ID Art Lab, Miami, Florida, USA.
2021–2018
Multimedia Art Actions — Performance Night, ID Art Lab, Miami (2021); Base Art Line / Border Line,
ID Art Lab, Miami (2020); Miami New Media Festival, +58ART, PhotoAlicante Festival, and Art Palm
Beach (2019); Coral Gables Art Night and Collection Suites, DORCAM (2018).

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