Blas Isasi (Lima, 1981)
Lives and works in New Orleans
Education
Tulane University 2020
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Studio Art-Sculpture
Thesis: Before the Revolt. Restless Materiality
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 2005
Bachelor in Art (BA), Major in Painting
Awards/Grants/Fellowships/Residencies
2021 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence
March-July 2021. New Orleans, USA
2019 Honored Mention in the International
Sculpture Center´s (ISC) 2019 Outstanding
Student Achievement in Contemporary
Sculpture Award Program. USA
2019 Summer Merit Fellowship.
Tulane University, New Orleans.
2017 (escuela incierta) at Lugar a dudas in Cali,
Colombia.
2015 Brauschweig PROJECTS Scholarship,
granted by the Hochschule für Bildende
Künste Braunschweig (Braunschweig
University of the Arts) and the State of
Lower Saxony. Artist-in-Residence/Visiting
scholar. November 2015 – October 2016
Brunswick, Germany.
2014 Jan van Eyck Academie. Artist-in-Residence
Maastricht, Netherlands. March 2014 –
May 2015
2013 PeerGroup: P.A.I.R (Portable Artist in
Residence) June – August, Donderen
(Drenthe), Netherlands.
2013 CAMAC (Centre D´Art - Marnay Art
Centre) Artist-in-Residence. Grant by
the FondationTanot. Marnay-sur-Seine
(Départament de Aube, Champagne-
Ardenne), France. May
2012 Núcleo Group: Selected to take part in the
Art Laboratory lead by Colombian curator
María Iovino.
Lima, May - November 2012
2010 I Concurso Nacional de Pintura Sérvulo
Gutiérrez (Sérvulo Gutiérrez I Nacional
Painting Contest): 3rd place.
2005 Premio a la Crítica (Critic´s Award), PUCP
Lima, Peru
2004 Winternitz Award in the 4th and 5th
academic year at the PUCP. Lima, Peru
Solo exhibitions & projects
2025 Desde el meandro hasta el recodo
(Forthcoming). SHED Projects.
Cleveland, OH
2024 1001532 CE (Forthcoming), Prospect 6,
the future is present, the harbinger is home.
Curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony
G. Patterson. New Orleans, LA
2022 An idea is just the shape of a flower,
The Front
New Orleans, LA
2020 It´s like talking to a wall, Carroll Gallery
Woldenberg Art Center. New Orleans, LA
2016 Entre la ficción y el gesto
Curated by Jorge Villacorta Chávez.
Galería ICPNA de Miraflores.
Lima, Peru
2015 Ensayos Cartográficos,
80m2 – Livia Benavides Gallery.
Lima, Peru
2012 Pentimento, Wu Gallery. Lima, Peru
Group Exhibitions
2025 Geometrica, Pop Y Rucas (Forthcoming),
Charlotte Street Foundation. Curated by
Yashira Davalos. Kansas City, MO
2023 Miradas contemporáneas: nuevas
adquisiciones en la Colección ICPNA
2015-2023. Sala Juan Pardo Heren.
Lima, Peru
2022 1922 – 2022, Vusco Volvvver. 77 Artistas con
Trilce. Curated by Jorge Villacorta and
Victor Vich. Palacio de las Bellas Artes de
Miraflores. Lima, Peru
2022 Summer Readings, Carroll Gallery at the
Woldenberg Art Center, curated by
Samantha Best and Elliot Stokes.
New Orleans, LA
2022 Ecstatic Objects. Contemporary Art Gallery
Southeastern Louisiana University.
Hammond, LA.
2020 Cracks in the slab. Duo exhibition with Dan
Charbonnet. Good Children Gallery.
New Orleans, LA
2019 Summer Solstice, Good Children Gallery.
New Orleans, LA
2018 I Concurso Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo
ICPNA, Sala J. Pardo Heren. Lima, Peru
2017 Legado y divergencia: 78 años de Artes de la
PUCP, Sala Germán Kruger Espantoso.
Curated by Max Hernández Calvo.
Lima, Peru
2017 PArC (Perú Arte Contemporáneo) Art Fair.
Lima, Peru
2017 Sinopsis. Galería Lucía de la Puente.
Lima, Peru
2017 XI Subasta de verano del MALI
Lima, Peru
2016 Presence sensed. Braunschweig University of
the Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste).
Brunswick, Germany
2016 Entre la cámara lúcida y el fax.
Resignificaciones del dibujo.
Curated by Carlo Trivelli. Galería ICPNA
de Miraflores. Lima, Peru
2016 Komma. Curated by Corinna Schnitt.
Kunstverein & Stifung / Sprinhornhof,
Germany
2016 X Subasta de verano del MALI . Lima, Peru
2015 El dibujo en el Perú: arqueología de la
realidad. Curated by Carlo Trivelli.
Art fair ESTAMPA 2015. Madrid, Spain
2015 Una mirada a la colección Vistacorta.
Curated by Carlo Trivelli,
Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru
2015 Nazca. Duo exhibition with Kim Habers.
Kers Gallery. Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Open Studios
Jan Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, 2015
2015 IX Subasta de verano del MALI . Lima, Peru
2014 Dominio. Duo exhibition with Eduardo
Hirose. Curarted by Jorge Villacorta
II Bienal de la Fotografía de Lima
Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland
Lima, Peru
2013 Expedición Amazonas.
Curated by Augusto Del Valle.
Pancho Fierro Municipal Gallery
Lima, Peru
2012 Intersecciones, Wu Gallery. Lima, Peru
Bibliography
SETENTA Y SIETE ARTISTAS PERUANOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS (SEVENTY SEVEN CONTEMPORARY PERUVIAN ARTISTS). MATE – Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, 2017
BIENAL DE FOTOGRAFIA DE LIMA, 2014, Catalogue. Lima, 2014.
Publications as author
La obra de Juan Javier desaparece. ¿Qué hacer?, in “Paraguas Existiencial. Juan Javier Salazar”. LUNWERG Ed. Lima, 2022
En busca del tiempo encontrado (In search of time found), in “Guillermo Montesinos Pastor. Fotografía 1916-1924”, edited by Jorge Villacorta Chávez and Andrés Garay Albújar. KWY ed. Lima, 2020.
Sinceridad y plegado: un alegato a favor de una muestra sin lugar, Ansible nr. 4, Lima, 2017
El universo amazónico de Christian Bendayán (The Amazonian universe of Christian Bendayán). Bisagra magazine nr. 001. Lima, Peru, 2016.
Guillermo Montesinos Pastor: Un solitario ante la naturaleza (Guillermo Montesinos Pastor: A loner vis a vis nature) together with Jorge Villacorta and Andrés Garay. Fotográfica Bogotá 2013´s catalogue. Bogotá, 2013