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About

luis rodriguez shiro beta is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and professor exploring border identity, digital cultures and speculative futures through sculpture, transmedia narratives and emerging technologies. Based between Mexico City and Tijuana.

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Exhibitions & Residencies

2026MexiCali Biennal Paranormal/Borders (group exhibition) — Stepping Gallery, Calexico / Arista, Mexicali
2025Cultivo (group exhibition) — Temoskali Exhibition Space
2025Envios del Futuro (group exhibition) — Museum of Contemporary Art of Zapopan
2024Vestigios de Luz (group exhibition) — Digital Arts Zurich Festival
2024PRINT — Abloom (group exhibition) — Mexico Design Week
2024Coalescencia (solo exhibition) — Secretariat of Culture Jalisco, Guadalajara
2024Deus Ex Machina (group exhibition) — Quartier Général, La Chaux-de-Fonds
2022Abloom (collaborative exhibition) — La Ferme des Tilleuls, Renens
2022État des Lieux — Artistic Residency — Lausanne
2019TecnoPop — Laboratorio de Arte Alameda — Mexico City

Grants & Awards

2025PECDA Baja California (Audiovisual and Alternative Media Category) — Mexican Secretariat of Culture
2024Digital Arts Zurich Festival (DA Z Award) — Honorable Mention, Video category
2023Nestlé-ECAL Scholarship Diploma Award
2023Design Exhibition Grant — PAD Jalisco
2022Encouragement Prize of the City of Renens — Exhibition Grant

Publications

Education

2024EPFL+ECAL Lab, Master of Advanced Studies in Design Research for Digital Innovation
2023ECAL, Master in Product Design
2018ITESM, Bachelor in Industrial Design