Draft:Victor Arroyo - Wikipedia

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Victor Arroyo is a video artist recognized for a style that combines community-based research with ethnography. His practice is situated in the crossfield between cinema and contemporary art.^[1]

Arroyo studied visual arts, filmmaking, design art practices and social research methodologies at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and Concordia University in Canada. He holds a PhD in Humanities from Concordia University.^[2]

His first video installation, Turcot, about the reconstruction of this multi-billion-mega-highway structure, resulting in the relocation of hundreds of local residents, premiered at the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA in 2012.^{[3] [4] [5]}

In 2021 he directed his first feature film, Cherán, about the P’urhépecha insurrection of 2011 in the forest of Michoacán, premiering at BIENALSUR^[6], and followed by a presentation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA as well. ^[7]

His work has been widely exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and festivals all around the world.^[1]

• DOXA Documentary Film Festival - Winner Short Documentary Award (2019)^[8]
• Sheffield Doc/Fest - Nominee Doc/Dispatch Prize Best Short Documentary Film (2018) ^[8]
• Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire Montréal RIDM - Nominee Grand Prize National Short and Medium-Length Competition (2018) ^[8]
• Mitacs Globalink Research Award (2015)^[9]

• Global Emergent Media Lab Member^[10]
• Images Festival Board Member^[11]
• Journal for Artistic Research Peer Reviewer^[12]