Miguel Novelo

Residency:

November - December, 2026

Exhibition:

January 14 - February 13, 2027

Location:

Exhibition Warehouse & Screening Gallery

1201 Minnesota Street

Exhibition Warehouse Hours:


Thursdays* & Fridays, 3-7pm

Saturdays, 12-6pm

*Extended hours on Thursday, January 21, 7-9pm

Minnesota Street Project Foundation is pleased to welcome Yucátan-born Bay Area-based artist Miguel Novelo to the Warehouse Residency program.

Converging emerging technologies and Indigenous knowledge systems, Novelo’s interdisciplinary, research-based practice engages non-human perspectives and speculative narratives/futures. Working across time-based new media, generative digital art, game engines, expanded cinema, participatory performance, interactive sculptures, and poetry, Novelo creates living art, prompting a critical engagement that challenges the static perspectives generated by the structures and systems around us. His multivalent, immersive, and interactive installations become evolving environments that invite audiences to partake in serious play. Encouraging new means of expression in unexpected ways—talk like a pelican, feel like a snake, move like a bat—Novelo’s work generates interspecies and intergenerational dialogues that move beyond the realm of the legible. Adopting a technoshamanic approach to making, his work is an ongoing act of translation, bringing forth ecological grief, alternative realities, giving form to memories, and making visible that which has remained unseen.

For the Warehouse Residency, Novelo will expand on his ongoing research to create interactive installations, sculptures, and machines that turn our attention to the translation of light to matter, transforming invisible processes and non-human forces into perceptible experiences. Investigating the entanglement between knowledge, heat, and memory held within the depths of deep time, Novelo’s new body of work takes inspiration from the unseen spectrum of perception. Reading rocks, space, and darkness for what they hold, Novelo draws on contemporary Indigenous knowledge to consider what emerges in the unseen and the entanglements extended, expanding our awareness and intra-relation to the matter of being.

Miguel Novelo (b. 1992 Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico; lives and works in the Bay Area, CA) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator. His practice is technoshamanic, combining emerging technologies with Indigenous knowledge to create interactive installations, films, sculptures, and performances. Using custom software, generative systems, light, and sound, he builds immersive installations in which audiences use serious play to inhabit non-human perspectives, whether moving like a bat or thinking at the scale of a meteorite. His work invites viewers to slow down, embrace ecological grief, and intimately explore the continuous creation and destruction of the living.

Novelo holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University, where he is a lecturer in Experimental Media Arts; he also teaches in the CADRE program at San José State University. He is a 2026 Knight Arts + Tech Fellow, a 2026 Artadia Awardee, and a former Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence. His first institutional solo exhibition, INFRAMUNDO, opened at ICA San José in 2026, and his work has been shown at the de Young Museum, Gray Area, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, the Morelia International Film Festival, and Sheffield DocFest.

About the Warehouse Residency 
Launched in 2024, the Warehouse Residency provides Bay Area artists at all career stages the dedicated time and space to create conceptually and physically ambitious new work. Participating artists gain access to the Exhibition Warehouse and the Screening Gallery as flexible studio and presentation space. In addition to technical equipment, artists can also make use of the shared facilities in The Studios at 1240 Minnesota Street. Artists work closely with the Minnesota Street Project Foundation team to develop a culminating presentation and related programming, offering the public insight into their process and work.