Juanli Carrión is a creative practitioner whose work over the past decade has unfolded in the research, creation and education of community engaged design and artistic practices addressing social and environmental justice. He is currently expanding his practice beyond the making realm to work that becomes policies, non-profit organizations, associations, groups, or other sustainable social or political structures with the aim of translating the results into creative, pedagogical and community strategies.
In 2017 he founded OSS Project Inc. a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect communities with artists and designers to create gardens as places to empower, celebrate and reclaim identity and knowledge, while addressing systemic and structural issues of social inequity. In 2023 he was the recipient, along with Rodolfo Kusulas, of Van Alen Institute’s Common Build Award for Whit Your Voice, a community engagement tool designed to inform and hear the Gowanus community in Brooklyn about the ongoing rezoning.
His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Art in General, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC or BAM in the US; ARTIUM, La Casa Encendida, La Panera Art Center, MUSAC, or CentroCentro in Spain; Ex-Teresa Museum and MUPO in Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art in Peru, National Gallery of Modern Art in India or MOCA in Serbia among others.
Carrión is an Assistant Professor of Creative Community Development at Parsons, The New School, and his work and research has been presented publicly in the form of lectures, panels and workshops at Columbia University, Open Engagement at Carnegie Mellon University, SVA, Pratt Institute, SUNY, NYU, AIA New York, Fordham Graduate School for Social Service, National Academy of Sciences, Wavehill, Apexart and Getty Institute among others.