john ros is a queer, non-binary, multiform conceptual installation artist working in brooklyn, new york and eastern connecticut. they are a first generation american, born in new york city, to cuban and québécois immigrants who are both classically trained musicians, turned educators. john earned an mfa from brooklyn college, city university of new york and a bfa from the state university of new york at binghamton.
john’s mixed media conceptual installations focus on ritual as performance, space/place, light, sound and time. john has exhibited internationally and their work can be found in collections throughout the world. they see teaching, curating and program development as extensions of their social practice which they have implemented in numerous projects over the last twenty-five years.
john is currently the director of studioELL, a space for radical education in studio art practice, which they founded in london, england in 2015. john is also the founding director and curator of intermission museum of art. in addition to being a professor at studioELL, john is a lecturer at the school of the museum of fine art at tufts university, parsons school of design, the new school, central connecticut state university and ct-state: quinebaug valley community college.
john ros is proud to be a w.a.g.e. wagent (#630) and union member of seiu local 509, act-uaw local 7902, ccsu-aaup (central connecticut state university-american association of university professors) and congress of connecticut community colleges 4c’s, seiu 1973.
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