Born in Lima, Peru.
Longuitude: -12.086761
Latitude: -76.991573
dvijaha1999@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2011 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS
2022
A Machine To Live In - KASKcinema screening, Belgium
A Machine To Live In - Multiple screenings at “Future Shock: (Re)Visions of Tomorrow” at The Roswell Museum, USA
A Machine To Live In - Brussels Art Film Festival, Brussels
A Machine To Live In - Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Canada
A Machine To Live In - Odeon Brugg, Switzerland
A Machine To Live In - Trondheim Architecture Film Festival, Norway
A Machine To Live In - San Francisco Green Fest, USA
A Machine To Live In - Paris International Film Festival, France
A Machine To Live In - FAST FORWARD, Montenegro
A Machine To Live In - ARCA International Film Festival, Uruguay
2021
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
A Machine To Live In - O.S. 19° International Festival Signes de Nuit, FR
A Machine To Live In - O.S. ArchFilmFestival in Lund, SE
A Machine To Live In - O.S. IDFF Ji.hlava, CZ
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Annual Copenhagen Film Festival, DK
A Machine To Live In - O.S. 7° Festival Intl, de Cine de La Serena, CL
A Machine To Live In - O.S. 9th Milano Design Film Festival, IT
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Festival Image de ville - Institut de l’image, FR
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Cinema Urbana, BR
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Seoul Intl. Architecture Film Festival, KR
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Byron Bay Intl. Film Festival, AU
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Festival Intl. de Cine y Arquitectura, MX
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Festival de Marbella, ES
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Tallgrass Film Festival, USA
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Budapest Architecture Film Days, HU
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Portland Intl. Film Festival, USA
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Osaka Intl. Film Festival, JP
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Norwegian Intl. Film Festival, NO
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Fine Arts Film Festival, IT
A Machine To Live In - O.S. Festival de Cine de LASA, USA
2020
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection Festival Close-Up, Paris, FR
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection Fisura Festival, Mexico, MX
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection Architektur Film Tage Zürich, CH
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection Torino Film Festival, Torino, IT
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection Cámara Lúcida, Cuenca, EC
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection ADFF, New York + LA, US
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection RIDM, Montreal, CA
Uma Máquina Para Habitar - Official Selection MOSTRA, São Paulo, BR
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection AFFR, Rotterdam, NL
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection VideoEX, Zürich, CH
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection Vision du Réel, Nyon, CH
A Machine To Live In - Official Selection True False, Columbia, MO
2019
Deep Time Media - video installation, Transiting. Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, AZ
Deep Time Media - video installation, Planned Obsolescence. SJSU Gallery, San Jose, CA.
2018
Deep Time Media - video installation, Transiting. Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Metropolis - in collaboration with Prison Renaissance and Southern Exposure. Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Site Unseen - in collaboration with AESQ. San Quentin State Prison, CA
2017
DOA - walking audio tour, Everyone is Hypnotized. Pro-Arts, Oakland, CA
2016
Ways to Dissapear - in collaboration with AESQ. San Quentin State Prison, CA
The Cycle of life - live performance, Fyodor’s Performance Carousel. Wien Künstlerhaus/Wiener Festwochen. Vienna, Austria
A Pseudo-Ethnobotanical Chronology of Psychoactives - photo installation, Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening. Vox Populi. Philadelphia, PA
The Chronosophical Society: Transection 02 - installation, Conspiracy. Minnesota Street Project. San Francisco, CA
2015
Faultline - in collaboration with AESQ. San Quentin State Prison, CA
Crypto-Phototropics: On Plant Sight and Forecasting - solo performance, Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening. Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
On Futures, a conversation with D. Scot Miller - skype dialogue, 2048-Voice Over by Nadav Assor. Manofim - Jerusalem Contemporary Art Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
A Pseudo-Ethnobotanical Chronology of Psychoactives - photo installation, Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening. Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
On Gentrification - performance, EDELO Residency. Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco, CA
Below Your Feet - performance, disruptions. Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco, CA
2014
Waterline - in collaboration with AESQ. San Quentin State Prison, CA
The Chronosophical Society - installation and performance, Ghost Nature. La Box, Bourges, France
The Chronosophical Society - installation, Ghost Nature. Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2013
Moving Excerpts - video installation, Ugly Feelings, Townhouse Gallery. Cairo, Egypt
Los cuerpos ocupan, se ocupan y son desocupados - curated exhibition, Festival de Cine de Barichara, Colombia.
2012
Oscillations//LIVE - live performance in collaboration with Surabhi Saraf, New World New Sequences , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
Oscillations - interactive installation in collaboration with Surabhi Saraf, New World New Sequences , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
2011
O[]V - live performance, IMPACT Festival, Columbus Auditorium. Chicago, IL.
O[]V - video installation, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries. Chicago, IL
Moving Excerpts - video installation, Antena. MDW Art Fair. Chicago, IL
Moving Excerpts (On David Foster Wallace) - performance, Subtitles IV. Three Walls. Chicago, IL
Untitled - solo performance, Touch then Push or Pull and Maybe Nothing. Defibrillator. Chicago, IL
2010
Liminalities – solo performance, Real Cities: A Symposium on Brazilian Urbanism. The South Side Community Art Center. Chicago, IL
On Power, Sex, and Labor - solo performance, Sex, Power and Labor. Co-Prosperity Sphere. Chicago, IL
On Vulnerability - solo performance, Exposure Conference. Outerspace. Chicago, IL
2009
S.S.C.A.C...a title seems of little use when describing the history of the Center and what it means (to all of us) - collaborative installation, Learning Modern. Sullivan Galleries. Chicago, IL
Gesualdo Translations - collaborative performance with Alessandro Bosetti. Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago, IL
The Weight of Words - performance in collaboration with Gong Lab, The Demise of the SSCAC. The South Side Community Art Center. Chicago, IL
The Weight of Words - performance in collaboration with Gong Lab, Hypothetical Planets. Betty Rhymer. Chicago, IL
Untitled - site specific installation, The Demise of the SSCAC. The South Side Community Art Center. Chicago, IL
Song of myself - solo thesis performance. SAIC. Chicago, IL
The Weight of Words - video installation, Artist Run Chicago. Hyde Park Art Center. Chicago, IL
Words Feel Beneath - installation. Antena. Chicago, IL
2008
Words Feel Beneath - solo performance. Links Hall. Chicago, IL
Lengua in Holes - sound performance. Elastic Arts Foundation. Chicago, IL
On Migration - live audio broadcast. Neighborhood Public Radio.
Whitney Biennial, NY
Hey Girl! - performer participation with Societas Raffaello Sanzio.
Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL
2007
Reading Gestures - durational performance with Sarah Schnadt.
Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago, IL
Memorial Gestures - durational performance with Ernesto Pujol.
Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago, IL
2006
Spirit Elevating Brains - sound performance.
Interpenetration Festival II. Postgarage. Graz, Austria
Lanoisa - sound performance. Colectivo Antena. Teatro de Arena. Porto Alegre, Brazil
2005
Humans Here - solo performance. Valencia Community College. Orlando, FL
Back into - site specific installation. Valencia Community College. Orlando, FL
WORKSHOPS / LECTURES
2022 Uno sguardo sul Sudamerica - L'Aquila Film Festival
2020 A Machine To Live In - ZOOM Q&A, Torino Film Festival, Torino, IT
2020 A Machine To Live In - ZOOM Q&A, ADFF, New York + LA, US
2019 On Holes and Heaps - San Francisco Art Institute
2018 Life Walk 01, Desire Trails - Headlands Center for the Arts
2017 World of Tomorrow - Southern Exposure
2014 Radical Love, Conscientização, and Expanding Boundaries - SAIC
2013 Psicogeografía y Documentación Introspectiva - En Medio De
2011 Fragments - Performance Space SAIC
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2021 The Eco/System Award, Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA
2021 Best Experimental Film, Annual Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark
2021 Best picture Award, 7° Festival Internacional de Cine de La Serena, Chile
2021 Best Feature Documentary, ArchFilmLund Prize, Sweden
2021 Main Award, 19° Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris, France
2021 Jury Award, International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona, Spain
2021 Outstanding Editing award, Tallgrass Film Festival, USA
2021 Riabitare con l'arte, Lab 8, Fontecchio, Italy
2018 A Machine to Live, IFP Labs, IFP New York
2017 A Machine to Live, DOK Leipzig Preview, Germany
2017 A Machine to Live, Dok Inkubator, Sweden
2017 A Machine to Live, Dok Inkubator, Slovakia
2017 A Machine to Live, Dok Inkubator, Czech Republic
2017 A Machine to Live, SFFilm Documentary Grant, San Francisco
2016 A Machine to Live, Grant for Film Production Crew, Graham Foundation
2014 A Machine to Live, Grant for Film Production Crew, Graham Foundation
2008 World Less Traveled Grant, Marion Parry Travel Grant
2008 Leadership Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004 Humanities Excellence Award, Florida Association of Community Colleges
1997 BA Full Scholarship (Social Communications) Government of Brazil
PUBLICATIONS / RELEASES / REVIEWS
2022 A Machine To Live In, Review by Roswell Daily Record
2022 A Machine To Live In, Review by Film Threat
2021 La Distanza della Luna, Review by AbruzzoWeb
2021 La Distanza della Luna, Review by Rete 8
2021 La Distanza della Luna, Review by Laquila Blog
2021 La Distanza della Luna, Review by NewsTown
2021 La Distanza della Luna, Review by Rai News
2021 La Distanza della Luna, Review by Virtú Quotidiane
2021 Interview by Filippo Tronca, AbruzzoWeb
2020 A Machine To Live IN, Review by 24 Images
2020 A Machine To Live IN, Review by Cultframe
2020 A Machine To Live IN, Q&A by Torino Film Festival
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Correio Braziliense
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Interview by Cine Resenhas
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by GPS Lifetime
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Papo De Cinema
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Filmelier
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Cinema Com Rapadura
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Esquina Da Cultura
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Nerd Interior
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Salve Ferris
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by VEJA
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by Folha de São Paulo
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Interview by Mostra SP
2020 Uma Máquina Para Habitar, Review by TV Brasil
2020 A Machine To Live In, Film Review by Modern Times Review
2020 A Machine To Live In, Film Review by Ma Se Domani
2020 A Machine to Live In, Interview by Público
2020 A Machine To Live In, Film review by Ubiquarian
2020 A Machine To Live In, Film review by Screendaily
2018 Illustration and work review in Why Look at Plants?
2016 The Cycle of Life @ Collectors Agenda
2016 Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening @ ARTFCITY
2014 Illustration and work review in Ghost Nature by Caroline Picard.
2012 Oscillations' review by Alex Bigman at 7x7SF.
2012 The Weight of Words, Verdad, literary and fine arts journal.
2011 The Taste of Potassium: An Interview with S. Alvarez, by Caroline Picard.
2010 City As Site Catalog, by Maria Gaspar & the Chicago Public Art Group
2010 City as Cite: North and South Lawndale Project net album. Chicago, IL
2009 Online Review of The Demise of the SSCAC. Chicago Now.
2008 Text Off the Page, on David Lakein's "Planet Self". SAIC. Chicago, IL
2008 Test Tube, Spirit Elevating Brains - album net release. Lisboa, Portugal
2007 Test Tube, Spirit Elevating Brains - album net release. Lisboa, Portugal
2006 Antena, Lanoisa, - album net release. Porto Alegre, Brazil
2005 Antena, Lanoisa, - album net release. Porto Alegre, Brazil
2005 Chmafu Nocords, Spirit Elevating Brains - album release. Graz, Austria
2004 Chmafu Nocords, Spirit Elevating Brains - album release. Graz, Austria
2004 Phoenix Magazine, poetry, illustrations, photography. VCC. Orlando, FL
2003 Phoenix Magazine, illustrations. VCC. Orlando, FL
2002 Alchemist Magazine, illustrations, photography. VCC. Kissimmee, FL
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