Biography  

Omar Reyna (Mexico)

Omar Reyna is a Mexican-Canadian artist based in Yukon, Canada. Omar holds a diploma in Philosophy of the Image from the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana in Mexico City, Mexico. In the past ten years, he has completed several training workshops, the online Career Management for Curators & Artists at the NODE Centre in Berlin (2022), the online Seminar in artistic research and creation at the Center for Research Innovation and Development of the Arts in Nuevo Leon, Mexico (2021) and Photography editing and visual narrative at Lens School of Visual Arts in Madrid, Spain (2020-2021). 

Omar Reyna's studio work is with photography, the compositions of the photographs are edited through the physical manipulation of the objects and materials he photographs. Omar has showcased in the collective exhibitions Experimenta the Other Photography (2022), Millepiani, Rome Italy, Contemporary Landscape (2021), at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea and People Places Things (2021), at the Project Gallery V, online exhibition space based in New York.