Biography 

Luis Jacob (born 1971, Lima, Peru) 

Luis Jacob is a Peruvian visual artist, writer, and curator based in Toronto. Luis holds a bachelor of arts in semiotics and philosophy (1994) from the University of Toronto. In 2003 he was involved in the Anarchist Free University in Toronto, a community education collective. Luis’s curatorial work is instructed by research in archival material, social relations, and their collision on representation in the arts in Canada. He was the curator in residence at the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he curated the exhibitions programming for My Rolodex (2002) and the Golden Streams: Artists’ Collaboration and Exchange in the 1970s (2002). In 2016, he curated the exhibition Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, an exhibition that was published in book form in 2020 by the Art Museum in partnership with Black Dog Press. Luis’s writing has also been published in Canadian Art magazine. 

Luis’s studio work is informed by research about phenomenology and social disruptive philosophies, reflected in installations, videos, drawings, and sculptures. He has showcased in solo exhibitions including Borderline Cases: Two in the Brush (2022) at Patel Brown Gallery in Toronto, Habitat (2017) at TPW Gallery in Toronto, and The Grand Balcony (2016), curated by Philippe Pirotte for the Biennial de Montréal at the Galerie de la Universite de Quebec à Montréal. His work has also been part of collective exhibitions including the online exhibition 26th Annual Christmas Spice (2022) at Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto, the Tip of the Iceberg (2019) at Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Austria, and the online exhibition 150 oeuvres en 150 ans (2018–2023) at La Galerie de l’ Universite de Quebec à Montréal.