Joaquín Stacey-Calle (he/him/they, b.2000, Quito, Ecuador) is an interdisciplinary artist working with painting, performance, installation, microbes, photography, and food. He graduated with a BFA from Florida International University in 2022 and received his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design (CA) in 2024. Stacey-Calle develops conversations around history, identity, memory, representational and landscape painting, daily rituals, Western ontology, and the human condition. He is interested in the digestion and fermentation of his quotidian surroundings and the cultural productions he has consumed throughout his life. Like his understanding of his diasporic self, his work is rooted in memories of his home and life in Ecuador, Miami, and Los Angeles and then tethered to a new experience of unfixed imagery and materiality that remains ever-changing. Lately, he has been exploring the importance of forgetting, confusion, and ignorance concerning the definition of thought. He has exhibited throughout Miami and LA, in places like Charlie James Gallelry, Goodmother Gallery, The Laundromat Art Space, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Pinecrest Gardens Gallery, Ateliê Alê (São Paulo), and the Ecuadoran Consulate in Miami. Stacey-Calle was part of the 2022 & 2023 Summer Open, a residency hosted by The Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. He is part of the artist collective Comedor Azul with Amaris Cruz-Guerrero and Leslie Gomez-Gonzalez. In March, he will have a two-person show at Charlie James Gallery, and an individual project with Proxy Gallery in April.