MISAEL JOSÉ OQUENDO
born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

RECENT EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, EVENTS
2026
(Screening) Gothico’s Quench at Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival - Athens, GR
2025
(Curatorial) Minor Harmonies at Tala - Chicago, IL
(Screening) Mesothelioma at Triad Theater (Paradise SHREDition) - Manhattan, NY
(Screening) Fan Cams & Laurels at Triad Theater (Paradise SHREDition) - Manhattan, NY
(World Premiere) Fan Cams & Laurels at Pebbles Underground Film and Art Festival
(World Premiere) Mesothelioma at Vidiots (Milan Machinima Festival) - Los Angeles, CA
(Solo Exhibition) Temenos at Tala - Chicago, IL
2024
(Group Screening) Rainforest Cafe Cinema at Guerrero Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
2023
(Group Show) In the Process, Noah Towne & Misael Oquendo - Brooklyn, NYC
(Artist Talk) Conversation between Emma Pryde, Misael Oquendo and Robert Zehnder for Agony in the Garden at Clearing - Los Angeles, CA
(Group Show) NICE WORK at Sulk Chicago - Chicago, IL
2022
(Screening/Q&A) Festival of (In)appropriation - Dandelions in Virginia at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
    and at the Los Angeles Filmforum    
(Screening) Presidium Overactive II Screening in Los Angeles, CA
(Screening) Mascota at Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA
2021
(Screening) Mascota at Jude Chicago


EXHIBITION TEXTS
2025
Minor Harmonies by Laila Majid, Joeseph J. Greer and Anastasia Sif Karkazis
2023
Nature Loves Change by Jesse Clark
Cache Nexus by Joseph J Greer at Hyacinth Gallery
Define the Loved Subject by Min Ji Son at Quarters Gallery
In the Process by Noah Towne and Misael Oquendo
2022
Ageless Machine by Robert Zehnder at Mrs. Gallery

PRESS
(Interview) Between Infomercials and Existential Dread: The Eerie Worlds of Misael José Oquendo



SELECTED PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMATS

"Introduction" from Autonomy Potemkin (2020) by Misael Oquendo
Excerpt sample from MA thesis in Aesthetics & Politics

Excerpt from Autonomy Potemkin: From Creative Autonomy to Speculative Profit (2020)