Writer, film director and visual artist who works and produces in El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico. Founder member of Curatorial Cinema, The Fire Theory and Burn and Die Films.

His visual work is part of the collections: Museum Reina Sofía (Madrid, España). Illy Art Collection (Venecia, Italia), MAMBO, Colombia y and private collections in collections in USA, Italy and France. Recent Solo exhibition on Error Proyecto (with support of the Jumex Foundation). Puebla, Zaragoza. México; Ex Teresa Art Museum. México, D.F.; Valenzuela Klener Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.; Shangyuan Art Museum. Beijing, China. Group exhibitions in Vasos Comunicantes Colección 1881-2021, Reina Sofía Museum. Madrid, Spain. Sustainable Connections at the Triennale of Milan. Milan, Italy. Biennial of the Frontiers, Tamaulipas, México. Notes for Tomorrow, ICI. Itinerant (Turkey, Belgium, Canada, Taiwan, China, Zimbabwe). Dios, Unión, Libertad.  Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger Norway. The Fire Theory ICE at Open Source Gallery, New York, USA.

His film projects has been presented in Belgium, Costa Rica, Peru, Zimbabwe, China, Turkey, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Perú, Perú, Colombia and USA.

Lectures and fellowships in SITAC IX Nodos. Puebla. México. Beca Mundi in Flora Ars Natura, Bogotá Colombia. ARCUS Project Residency Program, Moriya Ibaraki. Japan. Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Santa Fe Art Institute by the Harpo Foundation, Baja California, EU. Residency of the Americas, by the Darling Foundry Centre, Quebec Canada. Publications in: Contemporary Languages from Central America from Luisa Fuentes Guaza. Editorial Turner; Y.ES. Collect Contemporary Art in El Salvador, ACTIO Magazine, among others.

His work goes through various media, including film projects, research, and pedagogy. Ernesto Bautista’s work is a constant collision between the poetic and the social.