Isaac Contreras is an artist who works mainly in sculpture and image-making. He explores how images and objects create meaning and shape social expectations—especially those that suggest transition, cultural contact, or alterity.
Hailed from the desert of Baja California Sur, he is interested in the histories of places and things, using hands-on labor as a method of inquiry. He is drawn to borders, margins, and moments of overlap as sites of possibility.
Graduated from the Haute École d'art et de Design de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland (2017); has been a fellow of Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes & PECDA, Mexico (2010-2011) and artist in residence at Triangle France Marseille, France (2014), Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy (2017) and Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland (2020).
International exhibitions include the 3rd Poly/Graphic Triennial of San Juan (Arsenal, Puerto Rico, 2012); Sarai Reader 9: The Exhibition (Devi Art Foundation, India, 2013), Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary (Lulú, Mexico, 2015), Bourses Ville de Genève (Centre d'art Contemporain, Switzerland, 2017) and Abusos de las formas (Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico, 2020).