Joaquín Aras (1985, Buenos Aires) is a visual artist and audiovisual creator. His work focuses on the emotional space between the audience and the media, exploring how narrative experiences can preserve memory and challenge historicity. Most of his projects begin with theoretical research and culminate in works of various formats, including videos, installations, texts, performances, drawings, prints, objects, and photographs.

He studied Communication at UCA (Argentina) and earned a master’s degree in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought from the EGS (Switzerland). He participated in the Artists Program and the Film Lab at Universidad Di Tella in 2012. Aras has held solo exhibitions at  Piedras (2025, 2021, 2019), Fundación Andreani (2024), Móvil (2016), Museo La Ene (2014), and Isla Flotante (2014, 2012); and group exhibitions at the Museo Moderno, MAC-Niterói (Brazil), Grand Union (UK), Bienalsur, MNAV (Uruguay), and Open House (UK). His works have been selected for the Braque Prize, the Bienal de Arte Joven de Buenos, Bienalsur, and the National Salon. He has received grants from FNA, Oxenford Collection, and Fundación Telefónica and an honorable mention in the Klemm Prize. He was awarded the CIFO–Ars Electronica Prize in 2023. Aras participated in the CCA Kitakyushu Fellowship Program (Japan) and won a residency at Gasworks+URRA with the support of Erica Roberts and arteBA. Most recently, he was an artist-in-residence at Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan). His work is part of the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the Oxenford Collection, and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection, among others.