manuel arturo abreu (1991 Santo Domingo) is a non-disciplinary artist working with what is at hand in a process of magical thinking with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics. They have recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Konrad Fischer Galerie (Düsseldorf), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), the Portland Art Museum, SIMIAN (Copenhagen), Kunstverein München (Munich), Bergen Kunsthall, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin), HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Graz), Veronica project space (Seattle), and Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna). Since 2015, with co-founder Victoria Anne Reis, abreu has co-facilitated home school, a free pop-up art school and space of sacred duty in the Pacific Northwest that has been in residence at Yale Union (2019) and Oregon Contemporary (2023). They have written three books of poetry– List of Consonants (Bottlecap Press 2015), transtrender (Quimérica 2016), and two versions of a stone castle (home school press 2024)– and one book of critical prose, Incalculable Loss (Institute for New Connotative Action Press 2018).