Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana
Lima, Callao; Perù / 1991
Lives and works in London, UK
CV
Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana (he/him, they/them) is an artist and filmmaker based in London. He holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His practice spans moving image, performance, installation, and collaborative platforms, informed by extensive experience in arts education, curatorial initiatives, public programmes, and cultural production across the UK, the US, and Latin America.
In 2025, Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cabana received the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award and was awarded a Fundación Botín Art Grant.
Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana redefines the concept of immersive new media through an interdisciplinary methodology to his artistic practice. The artist’s visual vocabulary combines stylistic elements of video, performance, installation, and folklore, exploring mediatic intersections of these elements all at once. Deeply informed by themes of cultural identity and Afro Diasporic genres, Rodriguez Cambana’s approach develops eclectic strategies of personal storytelling, lived subject matter, and the theater of the everyday. Parting from personal experiences, notions of community, and intimate narratives, Rodriguez Cambana recovers moments from history and places them in a visual context of contemporaneity. In his previous projects such as Ópera de Balcón, at Cell Project Space, the multilayered installation echoes intimate instances and spaces between Black/indigenous communities—with their particular understanding of what migration undertakes as a life experience— and reflections of performative nuances within conceptual and physical landscapes constantlychanging. Rodriguez Cambana’s work problematizes socio-cultural notions of permanence, the complexity of memory and its adjacent biased emotional imagery. He creates, interprets, and translates his own lived reality in a critical attempt to decipher the history and narrative of the African diaspora collective identity. In doing so, he turns to the full array of semantic possibilities present in the deliberate use of mediums linked to memory and affective bonds in the archive.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Taking a Bow, Art Exchange, University of Essex (Colchester, 2025); Ópera de Balcón, Cell Project Space (London, 2022); Chela’s: Esa Vez Que Perreamos y Todos Nos Vieron, Des Bains (London, 2022).
Recent group exhibitions include: Footnotes, Brixton House (London, 2023); De, Desde, En, Entre, Hacia, SET Woolwich / Peckham (London, 2023); Curved Space, PEER Gallery / ACME (London, 2022); Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite (Essex) and South London Gallery (London, 2021); Mattflix, Matt’s Gallery (London, 2021); Dancing to My Future, Deptford X (London, 2021); The Pigeon Pavilion, Bangkok Biennale (London, 2021). The artist has also presented work internationally at festivals and public programmes including the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (2020, Kassel), Transcinema International Film Festival (2019, Lima), and the Ghetto Biennale (2015, Port-au-Prince).
Taking a Bow/Haciendo una Reverencia
2024-2025
installation
Art Exchange, Colchester, UK
Noelia and Thiara Series of photographs commissioned as part of Metal’s ‘In Other Words’ publication, curated by Kate Marsh, Harold Offeh and Xavier de Sousa.
2022-2023
35mm Photography
installation view, Chela's: Esa vez que perreamos y todos nos vieron, DES BAINS
2022
Cardboard, pastel, LED lights, table, chairs, white neon light, turquoise wall paint, audio, timber, framed drawings
Cara de Niño
2019
performance, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico, D.F.