My artwork explores the psychological nature of the relationship between man and images as mediators between him and reality. Through various artistic media, I approach images as devices capable of generating temporalities and spatialities.

Registration, compilation, filing, intervention, and editing are part of creative processes, in which I transform everyday artifacts into artistic objects in juxtaposition with symbolic elements and materials typical of global culture. I try, with my artwork, to alter the position that the viewer occupies in time and space; not only questioning the proxemic order that the spectator perceives in front of the artistic object, but also inviting him to reread the order that the images occupy within the chains of signifiers of global media diffusion.

Email me: marcialcoba@gmail.com

Education:
MFA Graduate, Herron School of Arts, IUPUI, Indianapolis, USA.
Bachelor on Systems Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

Exhibitions:
Tricentenario, Cumandá Urban Park, Quito, Ecuador, 2024
Continuum, Metropolitan Cultural Center of Quito, Quito, Ecuador, 2024
Bienal of Multimedia Art, Contemporary Art Center, Quito, Ecuador, 2023
Videographies, MZ. 14, The Cultural Center of Univeristy of the Arts of Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2022
Immanence Online, French Alliance, Quito, Ecuador, 2018
Naturaleza Primaria, + Arte Galería, Quito, Ecuador, 2016
The Water Show, Gallery 924, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 2015.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis Indiana, USA, 2015.
Marcial, Solo show, Blue Wren Gallery, Indianapolis Indiana, USA, 2104.
College Invitational, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 2014
Solo Exhibition, La caverna, Pentasiete artstudio, Quito, May 2013.
Group exhibition with the students of the school of contemporary art of the San Francisco University, November 2012.
Group exhibition of fantasy art with Wladimir Tasoff, Department of Culture of Ecuador, October 2011.
Individual exhibition Juan Andrés Marcial Coba, TCS Offices, Ecuador, March 2011.
Group exhibition with the students of Wladimir Tasoff, House of Culture of Quito, Ecuador, December 2010.
Group exhibition with Wladimir Tasoff, Portal Home, festivities of Ambato city, Ecuador, February 2010.
Collective Alternative Visual Art Exhibition, State University of Semarang, Indonesia, June 2009.
Collective Illustration Exhibition, State University of Semarang, Indonesia, April 2009.
Collective Exhibition Drawing and Movement, State University of Semarang, Indonesia, March 2009.