Marvin Veloso is a Chicago-based "visual criticologist" whose work engages the intersections of environmental humanities, visual culture, and queer affect. Through time-based media, performance, and writing he considers the mobility of spatial, temporal, and affective sensibilities that shape cultural memory. His approach to historical narratives challenge dominant social and scholarly conventions, presenting them not as fixed and totalizing, but as a site for confrontation and change. Through these interventions, Veloso experiments with alternative forms of dissemination, speculative worldmaking, and the intimacies across human and nonhuman agency.
As a queer of color person within the Filipinx Canadian diaspora, Veloso’s work intertwines personal experience with a self-reflexive, minoritarian practice. His approach to both visual media and literary texts is informed by a critical engagement with postcolonial theory and visual studies, examining the legacy of US imperialism and its contemporary manifestations across the Americas.
Veloso has presented his research at graduate conferences at UC Santa Barbara, Tufts University, Northwestern University, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, addressing topics like video art and animality, aesthetics of witnessing, and the political urban ecologies of monuments. In 2022, he curated an experimental video program featuring works from the Vtape archive (Toronto), which interrogated themes of race, sex, and queer cultural politics in Toronto. He holds a Masters in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.
