Felipe Rivas San Martín

Felipe Rivas San Martín (Valdivia, 1982) is a Chilean visual artist, essayist, and sex-dissident researcher. He holds a PhD in Art from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH). His work emerges from the intersection of queer critique, archives, technology, and decolonial thought, creating art that challenges normative systems of representation. Rivas was a co-founder of the University Sexual Dissidence Collective (CUDS, 2002–2019), playing a key role in Latin American queer theory and activism. His works are included in major public and private collections such as the Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), 21C Museum (USA), Fundación AMA (Chile), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile, MUNTREF (Argentina), and the Chilean Ministry of Cultures’ collection. He is the author of Internet, mon amour: queer/cuir infections between digital and material (Écfrasis, 2019) and co-author of La Biblia Artificial (Estudio San Martín, 2023). His career was the focus of the monograph Statutes of Dissidence (2020).