Daril Fortis is a Tijuana-based curator exploring politics of memory around performance art, archives, and bodies. In 2014, he co-founded the art organization Periférica and served as Program Coordinator until its dissolution in 2019. Since 2017, he has conducted a research project focuses in the history of performance art in Tijuana with the support of PECDA-BC (2017), Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo (2020, 2021), and Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo (2019, 2022). He edited the books Ecos y resonancias. Primera panorámica de la pintura en Baja California (2021) and Archivo Vivo. Primer mapeo de artistas mujeres de Baja California (2021), both published by La Rumorosa, the Baja California Ministry of Culture’s editorial.
He earned a BFA at the Autonomous University of Baja California (2015) and an Archives Management Specialization at the Mexican School of Archives (2021). He is currently an MSc candidate in Sociocultural Studies at the Institute for Cultural Research-Museum, Autonomous University of Baja California, where his research focuses on the participation of women artists in the performance art scene of the late 80ʼs and early 90ʼs in the Tijuana-San Diego border region.
Selected recent exhibitions include: La performance fronteriza (2022) on the collective memory of the women artists that practiced performance art in the late 80ʼs and early 90ʼs in the Tijuana-San Diego border region; Modos del cuerpo, a reading of Baja California’s artistic heritage (Baja California Ministry of Culture 2019, 2020); Intuir el azar, the first monographic exhibition by Jaime Ruiz Otis (Tijuana Cultural Center 2017; Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca 2018; and Antonio López Sáenz Art Gallery 2019); Modern Love Vol. 3 (Noox-Zona MACO 2019).
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