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_You_Made_Our_Reality_Into_A_Game?!?!_ solo exhibition at Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA), guest curated by Emilie Trice, photo courtesy Emilie Trice
_Crosser_ as installed at SUMA, Courtesy Southern Utah Museum of Art, Nick Martino
_La_Migra_ as installed at SUMA, Courtesy Southern Utah Museum of Art, Nick Martino
_Crosser_
_Croser_&_La_Migra_ as installed at _ReVisión_ at the Denver Art Museum, photo courtesy Justin Ankenbauer
_Croser_&_La_Migra_ as installed at _ReVisión_ at the Denver Art Museum
_Migraciones_ screen capture
_Migraciones_ as installed at Myhren Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA
_Migraciones_ as installed at Myhren Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA
_Sow_/_Reap_ big, immersive, scalable videogame in the C-Cubed studios at the University of Denver
_Sow_/_Reap_ screenshot
_Sow_/_Reap_ screenshot
_Stations_of_the_Crossing_ inkjet onto vinyl faced canvas
_Stations_of_the_Crossing_ inkjet onto vinyl faced canvas
_Stations_of_the_Crossing_ inkjet onto vinyl faced canvas
_Space_Invaders/Invasores/Coyotl_ collaboration with Eric J. Garcia
_Space_Invaders/Invasores/Coyotl_ collaboration with Eric J. Garcia shown in _Aim_High_ at Ogden Contemporary Art, Ogden, Utah, USA
_Juan_&_the_Beanstalk_ work in progress, Playdate Pulp proof of concept
_Juan_&_the_Beanstalk_ work in progress, Playdate Pulp proof of concept
_Juan_&_the_Beanstalk_ work in progress, Playdate Pulp proof of concept
_Juan_&_the_Beanstalk_ work in progress, Playdate Pulp proof of concept
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About Me

portrait of Rafael Fajardo wearing his grandfather's _ruana_ a monochomatic, short, wool, poncho from the highlands of Colombia

Rafael Fajardo

Rafael Fajardo (he/him) is an artist, designer, researcher, and educator. Born in Colombia, he migrated with his parents to the United States in 1968 and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. Rafael earned his BA and BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently an associate professor of Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver, where he is also core faculty for the LatinX Center and serves as a founding member of advisors IRISE, the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality. In 2004, I.D. Magazine named Rafael among the top fifty designers in the United States. Through his work with SWEAT, Rafael has been creating boundary-blurring videogames as an art form since 2000. SWEAT's earliest games, Crosser and La Migra, were recently featured in ReVisión, a 2022 exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Rafael has also collaborated with artists Adán De La Garza and Justin Ankenbauer under the moniker of Dizzy Spell to curate a series of pop-up artist game arcades.

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