Adrián Regnier Chávez
Animation, Artist, Realidad Virtual, Video, Visual Art
Mexico City, Mexico

Adrián Regnier Chávez (Mexico City, Mexico, 1989) studied Visual Arts at the National School of Sculpture, Painting and Engraving, ‘La Esmeralda’. Since 2011, he has developed important work in the fields of video, contemporary animation and Virtual Reality (RV / VR).

He has been supported on several occasions by national and international institutions: the Immersion Laboratory Residence Center of Digital Culture + BBVA Bancomer (Mexico, 2018-19), the Program of Support for Research and Production in Art and Media (PAPIAM; CENART / CONACULTA, Mexico, 2016-17); the MADATAC Residence in Casa de Velázquez (Spain, 2016) and twice for the Young Creators Scholarship (FONCA, Mexico, 2013-14; 2018-19), among others. It should also be noted that he is the youngest artist in the history of the private scholarship and commission program of the Cisnero Fontanales Art Foundation (CIFO, USA, 2013-14), and in competing for the prestigious ‘Reflet d’Or’ award for Immersive Work, of the XXV Geneva International Film Festival, for which he was invited privately in 2019.

He has exhibited individually at the Sinaloa Museum of Art (“Hemos Llegado Hasta […]”, México, 2018-19), the CENART Multimedia Center (“Días de Días […]”, México, 2017-18), the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art (“Habrán Más Cosas Buenas […]”, 2015) and the Leopoldo Flores University Museum (“Hay Una Forma De Ver […]”, 2017-18; “Habrán Unas Idas […]”, México, 2015).

He won first place in the IV International Biennial of Art of Veracruz (Mexico, 2018), and the XXXVIII edition of the National Meeting of Young Art (Mexico, 2018); the Exhibition of Digital Audiovisual Art and Advanced Advanced Technologies, MADATAC 07 (Spain, 2016); the International Festival of Electronic Art and Media TRANSITIO MX 6 (Mexico, 2015); and on three occasions, he won the XV, X and XII editions of the National Experimental Video Contest (Mexico, 2017; 2014; 2012). Likewise, he has been the winner of the Animasivo international festival of contemporary animation (VIII, 2015; XI, 2018) and of the international biennials of video art VideoBabel 2013 and Global Screen (Peru, Spain, 2013; 2011).

His work is part of collections such as MADATAC, Casa de Velázquez, Pi Fernandino, CIFO, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Casoria CCAM and Fundación Protovecka; and it has been selected, exhibited and awarded in more than 300 national and international festivals and contests of video art, cinema, animation and contemporary art.