Juan Couder (Juan García Couder, b. 1998) is a Spanish studio based artist whose experimental practice moves around notions of authorship, temporality and materiality in the field of expanded photography. With a central concern in gaze as a form of knowledge, Juan plays with somewhat radical proposals as means to seek an embodied understanding of the world, built by process and relations of experience. 

Member of the Bioart Society since 2022, Juan graduated from EFTI, The International Centre of Photography and Film in Spain in 2019 and he recently completed his Master of Arts in Photography at Aalto University. Juan’s work has been exhibited in Spain, USA, Finland and Switzerland, being recently selected to participate in Plat(t)form 23, Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Publications and Exhibitions 

2023 STUDIES ON A CLEPSYDRA, AALTO UNIVERSITY. HELSINKI. FI

2023 V1 GALLERY, AALTO UNIVERSITY. HELSINKI. FI

2023 ESPOO CULTURAL CENTRE, HELSINKI. FI

2023 FINNISH MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, MOA 23, HELSINKI. FI.

2022 DIPOLI GALLERY, CURATED BY OUTI TURPEINEN, HELSINKI. FI.

2022 VILLA LILL KALLVIK, “IN BETWEEN AND DEEP UNDER: ARTISTIC PROCESSES IN VUOSAARI ECOLOGIES”, HELSINKI. FI

2021 JUSTMAD INTERNATIONAL EMERGING ART FAIR, MADRID.

2020 FULL HOUSE, CURATED BY DREW NIKONOWICZ, LOCALHOST GALLERY.

2020 ALGUIEN ESTÁ VIAJANDO FURIOSAMENTE HACIA TI, CURATED BY MARÍA SANTOYO, CARMEN DALMAU AND NEREA UBIETO, SALA EFTI.

2019 EXC! #8.

2019 FOTOPROYECTOS 19, ESPACIO UNONUEVE. 

Grants and Awards

2024 IMAGE OF THE HELSINKI PHOTOMEDIA CONFERENCE, HELSINKI. FI

2023 PLAT(T)FORM 23, FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR. CH

2023 FINNFOTO. FI

2023 LEON ES PHOTO. FIRST ACCESSIT EX+S 23. SP

2022 FINNFOTO. FI

2022 AALTO ARTS AND MEDIA. FI

Studies

2021-23 MA PHOTOGRAPHY, AALTO UNIVERSITY OF ARTS DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, HELSINKI. FI

2018-19 MA CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, EFTI, MADRID. ES

2018 CREATIVITY AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (PROF. JAVIER VALLHONRAT), EFTI, MADRID. ES

2016-17 PROFESSIONAL CYCLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, EFTI, MADRID. ES