Carlos Reyes

Carlos Reyes is a contemporary artist who was born in 1977 in Chicago, Illinois. He currently lives and works in New York, NY, and Caguas, Puerto Rico. Reyes' artistic practice focuses on exploring ephemeral phenomena such as breath, wind, heat, light, and time, as they are imprinted onto material sites and objects. His projects document traces of human activity that are often overlooked or ignored.

Reyes' recent works include cedar panels from shuttered men's clubs, used jewelry store displays, and lamps that fluctuate in real-time to demonstrate ongoing power crises in Puerto Rico. By intervening in everyday objects, Reyes demonstrates how broad social shifts are enacted individually and incrementally.

Reyes has had solo exhibitions at prominent institutions such as the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, and Soft Opening in London, UK. In 2020, he exhibited at saltwaterfarm in Waldo, Searsport, ME.