juan miguel marin

Juan Miguel Marin (b. Ecuador, 1980) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY (Canarsie Ancestral Lands). His art practice seeks to untangle migrations through a constellation of diaristic gestures, offering a deeply vulnerable inquiry into the complex relationship between identity and displacement. Informed by the trauma of migration, Marin’s work reflects a constant negotiation of self and other, identity and memory.

In Marin’s meditative practice, the unconscious becomes a guiding force. Each gesture reveals paths to understanding that can only emerge through lived experience—an experience deeply embedded in collective histories of migration. Rooted in autobiography, Marin’s work is an emotional landscape where memory is both a refuge and a source of conflict. The dialogue between past and present selves is in constant evolution. Marin's practice occupies an in-between state, questioning what it means to belong, to remember, and to heal.

Marin’s work invites the viewer into this ongoing meditation, allowing them to reflect on their own emotional terrain. It is in this dialogue that he seeks a form of home—a place of emotional and psychological grounding within the complexities of the self, resonating with the body as a vessel for empathy and reconciliation. Through his work, Marin offers a profound reflection on how trauma, memory, and identity shape not only the individual but also the spaces we inhabit.

Marin’s work has been exhibited, installed, and performed around the world, in public spaces, galleries, and cultural institutions including Pioneer Works, El Museo del Barrio, BRIC, Azotea (Argentina), Museo de Diseño y Arte Contemporáneo (Costa Rica), among others.