Carlos Colín (Mexico, 1980) is a Mexican Vancouver based visual artist and pedagogue. Carlos’ research and artistic practice explores and connects the core cultural, theoretical, socio-political, tecno-feudal, religious, and artistic manifestations through baroque’s system as a colonial Western legacy in contemporary Mexico, Latin America, and by extension their migration communities.

Carlos studied his BFA in Visual Communication and Graphic Design, and a Master of Fine Arts at the National School of Fine Art at UNAM, in Mexico City. Moreover, he holds a second Master of Fine Arts at AHVA, and a PhD in Philosophy at the ISGP, both at UBC. His work has been exhibited in venues like the biennial BIENALSUR 2021; Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City; Aramauca Contemporary Art Platform in Chiapas, Mexico; AWA Cultura in Caracas, Venezuela; The Reach Gallery Museum, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and Grunt Gallery in BC; Sur Gallery in Toronto; and Galería de la Raza in San Francisco in USA to name a few. Colin was awarded the 2016 Emerging Artist, Mayor’s Arts Awards for the City of Vancouver in Visual Arts; the 2017 Artist Studio Award Program.