Blas Isasi Gutierrez
Education
2020 MFA Tulane University
2005 BA Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Biography
Professor Isasi is a Peruvian visual artist currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. His recent work explores the aesthetics and poetics of the Peruvian desert as an entry point to investigating Andean cosmology and its potential to shed light on key aspects of our troubled present that remain obscure. His goal is not to re-enchant the world after Modernity’s failure as a totalizing project but to highlight and to reveal the cosmic forces that never cease to shape politics, society, culture, economy, materiality, and reality.
Isasi has exhibited in many venues across Latin America, the United States, and Europe. In 2021 he was an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. He recently participated in Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, New Orleans’s Triennale curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson. He is also the 2024–2025 Henry L. & Natalie E. Freund Fellow at Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and is currently working on a project that will culminate in a solo exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum in early 2026. He is also a former recipient of the Braunschweig Projects Scholarship, a year-long artist residency in Brunswick, Germany.
Isasi has taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Tulane University, and Washington University in St. Louis where he is currently a visiting lecturer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with a major in painting from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in sculpture from Tulane University. He is also an alumnus of the Jan van Eyck Academie, a post-academic arts program in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Subjects Taught
- 3D Foundations 1
- 3D Foundations 2
Scholarly Creative/Research Activity
2026 Currents 125: Blas Isasi. Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) (Forthcoming). Curated by
Simon Kelly. Saint Louis, MO
2025 El viento will bring us home. SHED Projects. Cleveland, OH
2025 Prospect 6: Selections from The Future is Present, the Harbinger is Home
Curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson. Museum of
Contemporary Art Denver. Denver, CO
2025 Geometrica, Pop Y Rucas, Charlotte Street Foundation. Curated by Yashira Davalos.
Kansas City, MO
2024 1001532 CE, Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home.
Curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson. Ford Assembly Plant.
New Orleans, LA
2022 An idea is just the shape of a flower, The Front gallery. New Orleans, LA
2020 It´s like talking to a wall, Carroll Gallery at the Woldenberg Art Center.
New Orleans, LA