Presidential Portrait, 2020 for Artists in Presidents directed by Constance Hockaday. Photo by Thaddeus Pedisich with editing by Edgar Fabián Frías

Presidential Portrait, 2020 for Artists in Presidents directed by Constance Hockaday. Photo by Thaddeus Pedisich with editing by Edgar Fabián Frías

About Edgar

Edgar Fabián Frías is a nonbinary Wixárika and Latinx multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator, brujx, and psychotherapist based in Los Angeles. Their practice moves fluidly across installation, digital painting, video, performance, sound, social practice, ceremony, GIFs, memes, and public art; blending technology, spirituality, and collective healing through the lenses of Indigenous Futurism, queer and trans cosmologies, and data justice.

Drawing from their Wixárika lineage and training in psychotherapy, Frías investigates how ancestral technologies: divination, dreamwork, and ceremony, can be brought into dialogue with contemporary systems like open-source software, mapping, and algorithmic design.

Central to their practice is Nierika, a sacred Wixárika technology for world-making and visionary perception, which Frías mobilizes as both methodology and cosmology. Their immersive works operate as portals, spells, maps, shields, and mirrors, invoking re-enchantment while addressing the entanglements of land, identity, and technology. Whether visualizing algorithmic harm through Indigenous iconography, creating spellcasting memes, or collaborating with communities to reimagine public space, their art centers resiliency, radical imagination, and reciprocal ways of knowing.

Currently in Berlin as a fellow in the Mensch Maschine program, a collaboration between the Akademie der Künste (AdK) and EWerk Luckenwalde, and residing at the internationally artist residency Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Frías is developing new work in dialogue with an archive at the Humboldt Forum and Ethnological Museum of Berlin.

Frías holds an MFA in Art Practice (Cum Laude) from UC Berkeley, a Graduate Certificate in New Media from the Berkeley Center for New Media, and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Cum Laude) from Portland State University, with a focus on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. They are Special Faculty in Performance at CalArts and serve on the LA County Department of Arts and Culture's Public Artist Council.

In 2024, their work was selected for permanent preservation on the moon's surface via the Arch Lunar Art Archive aboard the Odysseus Lander spacecraft, making them part of a rarefied group of artists whose work now exists beyond Earth. Their work has been presented at institutions across the globe, from the Vincent Price Art Museum and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Oregon Contemporary, Palm Springs Art Museum, MOCA Jacksonville, the Mexicali Biennial, and ArtBo, among others. Internationally recognized as a practicing witch and spiritual practitioner, their work is featured in Amy Hale's Beyond the Supernatural: Magic in Contemporary Art (Tate Publishing, 2026). Their practice has been covered by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, GQ, ELLE UK, Nylon, Cosmopolitan, Hyperallergic, Taschen, Slate, Terremoto, and CVLT Nation, among others.

Short Bio

Edgar Fabián Frías is a nonbinary Wixárika and Latinx multidisciplinary artist, brujx, curator, and psychotherapist based in Los Angeles, currently a fellow at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Drawing on their Wixárika lineage and training in psychotherapy, Frías works across installation, digital painting, video, performance, ceremony, and public art, weaving technology, spirituality, and collective healing through the lenses of Indigenous Futurism, queer and trans cosmologies, and data justice. Central to their practice is Nierika, a sacred Wixárika technology for visionary world-making, which they mobilize to create works that function as portals, spells, maps, and mirrors. In 2024, their work was selected for permanent preservation on the moon via the Arch Lunar Art Archive, and their practice is featured in Amy Hale's Beyond the Supernatural: Magic in Contemporary Art (Tate Publishing, 2026). Frías holds an MFA from UC Berkeley and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Portland State University, and is Special Faculty in Performance at CalArts.


Sobre Edgar

Edgar Fabián Frías es un artista multidisciplinario no binario Wixárika y Latinx, curador, educador, brujx y psicoterapeuta radicado en Los Ángeles. Su práctica se mueve fluidamente entre la instalación, la pintura digital, el video, la performance, el sonido, la práctica social, la ceremonia, los GIFs, los memes y el arte público, fusionando tecnología, espiritualidad y sanación colectiva a través de los lentes del Futurismo Indígena, las cosmologías queer y trans, y la justicia de datos.

A partir de su linaje Wixárika y su formación en psicoterapia, Frías investiga cómo las tecnologías ancestrales — la adivinación, el trabajo con los sueños y la ceremonia — pueden entrar en diálogo con sistemas contemporáneos como el software de código abierto, la cartografía y el diseño algorítmico.

Central en su práctica es el Nierika, una tecnología sagrada Wixárika para la creación de mundos y la percepción visionaria, que Frías moviliza tanto como metodología como cosmología. Sus obras inmersivas funcionan como portales, hechizos, mapas, escudos y espejos, invocando el re-encantamiento mientras abordan los entrelazamientos de la tierra, la identidad y la tecnología. Ya sea visualizando el daño algorítmico a través de la iconografía indígena, creando memes de lanzamiento de hechizos, o colaborando con comunidades para reimaginar el espacio público, su arte centra la resiliencia, la imaginación radical y las formas recíprocas de conocimiento.

Actualmente en Berlín como becario del programa Mensch Maschine, una colaboración entre la Akademie der Künste (AdK) y EWerk Luckenwalde, y residente en la residencia internacional de artistas Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Frías desarrolla nueva obra en diálogo con un archivo del Humboldt Forum y el Museo Etnológico de Berlín.

Frías tiene una Maestría en Bellas Artes en Práctica Artística (Cum Laude) de UC Berkeley, un Certificado de Posgrado en Nuevos Medios del Centro Berkeley para Nuevos Medios, y una Maestría en Consejería en Salud Mental Clínica (Cum Laude) de la Universidad Estatal de Portland, con enfoque en Neurobiología Interpersonal y Psicoterapia Somática. Es Facultad Especial en Performance en CalArts y forma parte del Consejo de Artistas Públicos del Departamento de Artes y Cultura del Condado de Los Ángeles.

En 2024, su obra fue seleccionada para preservación permanente en la superficie lunar a través del Arch Lunar Art Archive a bordo de la nave espacial Odysseus Lander, convirtiéndolo en parte de un selecto grupo de artistas cuya obra existe más allá de la Tierra. Su trabajo ha sido presentado en instituciones de todo el mundo, desde el Vincent Price Art Museum y The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA hasta el Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Oregon Contemporary, Palm Springs Art Museum, MOCA Jacksonville, la Bienal de Mexicali y ArtBo, entre otros. Reconocido internacionalmente como practicante de la brujería y practicante espiritual, su obra aparece en Beyond the Supernatural: Magic in Contemporary Art de Amy Hale (Tate Publishing, 2026). Su práctica ha sido cubierta por el Los Angeles Times, Vogue, GQ, ELLE UK, Nylon, Cosmopolitan, Hyperallergic, Taschen, Slate, Terremoto y CVLT Nation, entre otros.

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