Pablo Vindel

Born in Spain (1990) and based in Valencia, where he maintains his studio, Pablo Vindel is a multidisciplinary artist and writer exploring the intersections of language, materiality, and identity, where queerness functions as a force of transformation. His practice navigates memory, fragmentation, loss, and love—lingering in the liminal space between presence and absence, the tangible and the immaterial. Acts of blowing, firing, piercing, braiding, stitching, coiling, mending, and threading function as gestures of translation—rupturing and reassembling text, image, and form.

Spanning installation, sculpture, book arts, performance, and writing, Vindel engages materials such as glass, fibers, text, and gold—not as passive substances, but as catalysts of transformation. These materials metabolize touch, breath, and sweat, recording traces of process and intention. Here, transparency does not reveal; it refracts, layering meaning while withholding resolution. Through these gestures, his practice excavates the porous boundaries between material and language, object and body, viewer and maker.

Vindel’s research has been shaped by artist residencies across Brazil, Chile, India, Spain, Turkey, and the United States, embedding his practice in shifting landscapes of language, craft, and tradition. Informed by object-oriented ontology, phenomenology, and queer poetics, he reconfigures the entanglement between matter, gesture, and perception—favoring metamorphosis over resolution, diffraction over definition. The works operate as both palimpsests and proposals—dissolving boundaries, queering systems, and activating new modes of reading, seeing, and being.

As the founder and director of The Liminal (2020–2023), a gallery and platform dedicated to championing the work of women and queer artists, Vindel continues to cultivate spaces where transformation is not only possible but necessary—where materiality, language, and identity are not endpoints but ever-shifting terrains of becoming.

SOCIAL

Instagram

@pablovindelstudio

Vimeo

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CREDITS

collaborators

Melanie Teresa Bohrer (Untitled [Book] & activations), Terri Witek (poetic insights)

photography

Brian M. John, Coral Pereda Serras, David Zarzoso, Jared A. Smith, John Steck Jr., José Vilández, Naranja Publicaciones, Pep Herrero, Ryan Ketterman

video

ARTV Chile, Fernando Moreno, Ryan Ketterman

web design & development

Aurora Saseta

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S/MAJOR EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum

St. Augustine (FL), USA – First institutional Solo exhibition, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Orlando Museum of Art

Orlando (FL), USA

Atlantic Center for the Arts

New Smyrna Beach (FL), USA

Centre d’Art La Capella

Barcelona, Spain

MoMA PS1 – Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair

New York (NY), USA

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – Tokyo Art Book Fair

Tokyo, Japan

S/AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGS

en la noche prevalece un corazón lleno, Helena Rodriguez, ed. and text; text by Terri Witek and Pablo Vindel

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine (FL), USA, June 2025 (forthcoming)

Hunch – Premonition, Melanie T. Bohrer, des.

Self-published, Valencia, Spain, October 2024

time, like the world, has two hemispheres, Melanie T. Bohrer, des. and prod.

Self-published, Berlin, Germany, September 2024

From her(e) to now(here)

Naranja Publicaciones, Santiago, Chile, January 2019

‘Disappearing Photographs: Lament / Pictures of You’ by John Steck Jr. and ‘Parafiction: Flam(e) in 5 Episodes’ by Pablo Vindel

Issues #5.1 & #5.2, LDOC (el-doc): A Contemporary Photography and Creative Writing Publication for Chicago (IL), USA, February 2016

Untitled [Book], co-authored with Melanie Teresa Bohrer

Self-published, Chicago (IL), USA, January 2016

S/WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

MoMA Library Artist Book Collection at Museum of Modern Art

New York (NY), USA

Rosemary Furtak Artist Book Collection at Walker Art Center

Minneapolis (MN), USA

Datz Museum of Art

Gwangju, South Korea

Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago (IL), USA

School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Boston (MA), USA

Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection at Pratt Institute

Brooklyn (NY), USA

S/REVIEWS & ESSAYS

Terri Witek, «a rose is a skin is dark water is a sky filled with night»

DeLand (FL), USA, October 4, 2024 – Bilingual (English → Spanish)

Maggie Trela, «Pablo Vindel’s ‘en la noche prevalece un corazón lleno’ intertwines personal memory and familial legacy»

Number:Inc, Memphis (TN), USA, October 2, 2024

Sabrina Mandanici, «Pablo Vindel, ‘From Her(e) to Now(here)’»

Collector Daily, New York (NY), USA, July 24, 2019

Alejandro Granero Ferrer, «‘From her(e) to now(here)’ dibuja una cicatriz»

Valencia, Spain, May 2019 – Bilingual (Spanish → English)

Melanie Teresa Bohrer, «My mouth and yours»

Munich, Germany, August 16, 2018

Frances Lightbound, «‘Interstice’: curator’s essay»

Kruger Gallery Chicago, Chicago (IL), USA, April 2, 2017

S/RESIDENCIES

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (CEAM) at Flagler College

St. Augustine (FL), USA, March 1–31, 2022 – With support from Spain Arts & Culture in the US. through The Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C.

Bonfire International Online Artist Residency: The New Landscapes

May 18–28, 2020

Creative Glass Fellow at Wheaton Arts – Museum of American Glass

Millville (NJ), USA, October 18–November 29, 2017

Disquiet International Literary Program – Centro Nacional de Cultura

Lisbon, Portugal, June 25–July 7, 2017

Carpe Diem Residency: Monsoon Artists’ Program

Kumarakom (KL), India, June 22–July 5, 2015

Halka Art Project Residency Program

Istanbul, Turkey, October 26–November 8, 2013

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry

Awarded Sullivan Writing Merit Scholarship, Stetson University (2016–2018), DeLand (FL), USA

MFA in Studio – Fiber and Material Studies

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014–2016), Chicago (IL), USA

BFA in Sculpture

Polytechnic University of Valencia (Distinction, 2010–2014), Valencia, Spain

Summer Undergraduate Residency Program

San Francisco Art Institute (2013), San Francisco (CA), USA

Erasmus at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris

Awarded Erasmus-Bancaja Merit Scholarship (Honors, 2012–2013), Paris, France