Felipe Rivas San MartĂ­n

Clarice Oliveira Tavares Residency

Oct—Dec 2025

Interface, 2023. Image by Enrique MartĂ­nez.

Felipe Rivas San Martín (b. 1982, Valdivia, lives and works in Santiago and Barcelona) is a Chilean transdisciplinary artist, essayist, and sexual dissident activist. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His works are part of public and private collections such as the Reina Sofía Museum, Spain; 21C Museum, USA; MUNTREF, Argentina; the Chilean Ministry of Culture Collection; the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Chile; and the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile; among others. He is a co-founder of the University Collective of Sexual Dissidence, CUDS (2002-2019), a Latin American group dedicated to activism, artistic experimentation, and critical reflection. He is the author of the book Internet, mon amour: infecciones queer/cuir entre digital y material (Écfrasis editiones, 2019) and co-author (with Jaime San Martín) of the experimental science fiction book Sagrada Biblia Artificial (ESM, 2023). His work has been featured in the monographs Estatutos de la disidencia (2020) and Un Archivo Inexistente (2024).