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 completed a master’s degree in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at EGS (Switzerland). In 2012, he participated in the Artist Program and the Film Laboratory at the Universidad Di Tella. He has held solo exhibitions at PIEDRAS (2021, 2019), Móvil (2016), Museo La Ene (2014), and Isla Flotante (2014, 2012), as well as group exhibitions at 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 Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial, Bienalsur, and the National Salon. He has received grants from FNA, the Oxenford Collection, and Fundación Telefónica; the Young Art Biennial Project Award; and an honorable mention in the Klemm Prize. He was awarded the CIFO-Ars Electronica Prize in 2023. He was part of the CCA Kitakyushu Fellowship Program (Japan) and won a residency at Gasworks+URRA with the support of Érica Roberts and arteBA. His work is included in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the Oxenford Collection, and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, among others.