This session brings together artist talk and collaborative workshop in an exploration of sacred cartography, divination, and visionary practice. Edgar begins with an introduction to their multidisciplinary art practice, spanning video, installation, performance, and oracle systems, before opening into a global survey of divination as a technology of knowing: its forms, histories, and living traditions across cultures and continents. At the center of this inquiry is the Nierika, the Wixarika technology of a visionary portal and sacred map, a site where the visible and invisible worlds meet. Students are then invited to create their own cartographies using the map not as a document of what is, but as a tool of communion, imagination, and world-making, a space to chart the worlds they dream of, desire, and are working toward.
Edgar Fabián Frías (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural practitioner from Los Angeles whose work spans video, installation, performance, and divination systems. Drawing on indigenous futurism, Wixarika cosmologies, spiritual traditions, and new media, their practice explores the intersections of memory, vision, healing, and collective imagination.
Education
MFA in Art Practice (Cum Laude), UC Berkeley, 2022
Graduate Certificate in New Media, Berkeley Center for New Media, 2022
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Cum Laude), PSU, 2013
Double BA in Art (Studio) and Psychology (Cum Laude), UC Riverside, 2006
Selected Exhibitions
VESSEL, Gloria Molina Grand Park, Los Angeles (2024)
Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles (2024)
A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit, Palm Springs Art Museum (2026)
Dieu Est Algorithme, Plateforme Paris, France (2025)
HI, SOLO #11, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (2022)
Mexicali Biennial, The Cheech Center, Riverside (2022–2023)
Perpetual Flowering, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2019)
Selected Teaching
Special Faculty, Art & Community Engagement, CalArts (2025)
Graduate Student Instructor, Introduction to Visual Culture, UC Berkeley (2022)
Community Learning Partner, Ritual, Healing & Transformation, UCLA (2020, 2025)
Visiting Artist, ArtCenter College of Design, LACMA, Idyllwild Arts, and others
Residencies & Grants
Mensch-Maschine Residency, Akademie der Künste / E-WERK Luckenwalde, Berlin (2026)
PAiD Artist Council, Los Angeles Department of Arts & Culture (2024)
Artist in Residence, Philosophical Research Society (2023)
Visual Artist Fellowship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2019–2020)
Workshop, 22.04.2026, 2 pm