Through my work, I explore subjects of violence, transient and/or persistent memory, perception and the multiple, using erasure as language through the use of processes that are reductive in nature. Representations of the visible will always show residues and traces of the invisible; the images I create connect the spheres of what can be seen and what can be only intuited. My work is derived from a need to find meaning in distressing events that repositions mortality in our field of vision, reminding us that our physical existence is finite.

Miguel A. Aragón lives and works in NYC and Berlin, Germany; he is an Associate Professor at CUNY College of Staten Island. His awards and residences include NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship; KALA Art Institute fellowship and residency, Berkeley, CA; East London Printmakers Keyholder Residency, England; The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia fellowship residency, Italy; Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany, the 2022 Southern Graphics Council International Mid-Career Printmaker Award, and a nomination for The Queen Sonja Print Award, Norway. His work is in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and Minneapolis Institute of Art.