Juanma Calderón

Biography

JuanMa Calderon (Lima, 1967) began his audiovisual career in the 1990s, documenting Lima's underground art scene. His training incorporated an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating rock, dance, and poetry, resulting in an extensive body of experimental videos. In 2001, he went into self-imposed exile in New York, where he produced a series of programs for Brooklyn's public television station about Latin American artists living in the Big Apple. He also founded the Latin American art movement Spanic Attack. In 2004, he made his first feature film, the dark comedy Reasons for Exile, an autobiographical account of his experience as a Latin American immigrant in New York City. In 2006, he tr...