Ian Paulo Corral Viveros
Ian Paulo Corral Viveros is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between sculpture, installation, performance, textiles, and painting. Born in Mexico and currently based in Canada, Corral Viveros explores themes of memory, identity, the body, and human interaction. He also works with unconventional materials such as hair and ethically sourced natural specimens, blurring the boundaries between object and living presence.
His practice often incorporates hand-made processes such as crochet, ceramics, and embroidery, creating works that feel both intimate and uncanny. These forms become vessels for fragments of memory and culture.
Drawing inspiration from surrealist painters, experimental textile practices, and the theatricality of fashion designers, Corral Viveros develops visual worlds that merge the poetic with the grotesque, and the sacred with the everyday.
Corral Viveros graduated from the Fine Arts program at Algonquin College in 2017. His work has been exhibited in Ottawa at venues including SAW Gallery, Gallery 115 at the University of Ottawa, and in exhibitions associated with Algonquin College.
His work ultimately asks how identity, memory, and culture can be embodied through material forms, and how art might create spaces where personal and collective experiences can unfold.