College of Performing Arts Faculty

Profile

Juanli Carrión is an artist, researcher and activist whose work over the past decade has unfolded in the research, development and education of community engaged artistic practices with an emphasis on social and environmental justice. He is currently expanding his practice beyond the art realm to work that becomes policies, non-profit organizations, associations, groups, or other sustainable social or political structures with the aim of translating the results into artistic, pedagogical and community strategies. 

In 2017 he founded OSS Project Inc. a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect communities with artists to create gardens as places to empower, celebrate and reclaim identity and knowledge, while addressing systemic and structural issues of social inequity.

His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Art in General, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC or BAM in the US; ARTIUM, La Casa Encendida, La Panera Art Center, MUSAC, or CentroCentro in Spain; Ex-Teresa Museum and MUPO in Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art in Peru, National Gallery of Modern Art in India and MOCA in Serbia among others. 

Carrión is an Assistant Professor at The New School, where he teaches Creative Community Development & Sustainable Design, and his work and research has been presented publicly in the form of lectures, panels and workshops at Columbia University, Open Engagement at Carnegie Mellon University, SVA, Pratt Institute, SUNY, NYU, AIA New York, Fordham Graduate School for Social Service, National Academy of Sciences, Wavehill, Apexart and Getty Institute among others.

Research Interests

Sustainable design, community development, social practice, environmental justice, participatory design, community gardening, urban gardening, Sustainable Creative Place-empowering, creative placemaking.

Portfolio

OSS Project, Inc