Blas Isasi is a Peruvian visual artist currently based in Greensboro, NC. His work explores the aesthetics and poetics of the Peruvian desert as an entry point to investigating Andean cosmology and its potential to shed light on key aspects of our troubled present that remain obscure. His main goal is not to re-enchant the world after Modernity’s failure as a totalizing project but to highlight and to reveal the cosmic forces that never cease to shape politics, society, culture, economy, materiality, and reality.  

Isasi has exhibited in many venues across Latin America, the United States, and Europe. He participated in Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, New Orleans’s triennale curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson. He was the 2024–2025 Henry L. & Natalie E. Freund Fellow at Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and a 2025 Liu Shiming Artist Grant awardee. In 2026 Isasi is having his first solo institutional exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Currents 125: Blas Isasi, curated by Simon Kelly. He is also a former recipient of the Braunschweig Projects Scholarship, a year-long artist residency in Brunswick, Germany. 

Isasi is currently an Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and has previously taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Tulane University, and Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with a major in painting from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in sculpture from Tulane University. He is also an alumnus of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands.