Cristo Riffo

Cristo Riffo is a Chilean artist who explores concepts of memory, light, politics, and biology through the creation of kinetic installations and audiovisual performances, hacking and modifying technological devices using electronics, robotics, and biology.

Cristo holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Playa Ancha (Chile). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Chile and around the world, including Bahia (BR), Buenos Aires (AR), Montreal (CAN), Bogotá (COL), Berlin (GER), and Linz (AT).

He has received support from the Chilean National Fund for the Arts (FONDART) in the New Media category for the design, creation, and presentation of solo exhibitions in 2014, 2016, and 2018. In 2023, he presented his piece Sistema Cinco : Non Human Determinations at Ars Electronica during the "Who Owns the Truth?" exhibition.

Cristo Riffo was part of the MFA Intermedia program at Concordia University in Montreal.