Nico Espinoza (b. 1986, Curicó, Chile) is a Lisbon-based sound artist, composer, and researcher whose practice interrogates the mutual becoming of collectivity—how material, technical, natural, and human agencies entwine to shape dynamic systems of relation. Tuning into reality through a sonic sensibility, his work explores the continuous reconfiguration of these entanglements, probing how environments, gestures, and technologies co-transform one another.
His research manifests in sound installations and performances that reject fixed definitions of sound, instead engaging its fluid potentials: as force, trace, object, or relational process within shifting networks of resonance and feedback. His collaborative installations and immersive projects have been exhibited globally at institutions like Art Basel, the BoCA Biennial, and Lisboa Soa, alongside residencies in Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, and Spain. Bridging disciplines, he designs sound for architectural spaces (e.g., the Brazil Pavilion at Expo 2020), scientific initiatives (Champalimaud Foundation, Matters of Activity), and experimental education programs (Museu do Amanhã, NowHere Lisbon).
Holding a master’s degrees in Sound Studies & Sonic Arts (UdK Berlin) and Electronics (Santa María Technical University, Chile), His work reflects a hybrid of rigorous technical inquiry and speculative artistic exploration—a practice attuned to the politics of perception and the emergent dynamics of collective life.
His research manifests in sound installations and performances that reject fixed definitions of sound, instead engaging its fluid potentials: as force, trace, object, or relational process within shifting networks of resonance and feedback. His collaborative installations and immersive projects have been exhibited globally at institutions like Art Basel, the BoCA Biennial, and Lisboa Soa, alongside residencies in Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, and Spain. Bridging disciplines, he designs sound for architectural spaces (e.g., the Brazil Pavilion at Expo 2020), scientific initiatives (Champalimaud Foundation, Matters of Activity), and experimental education programs (Museu do Amanhã, NowHere Lisbon).
Holding a master’s degrees in Sound Studies & Sonic Arts (UdK Berlin) and Electronics (Santa María Technical University, Chile), His work reflects a hybrid of rigorous technical inquiry and speculative artistic exploration—a practice attuned to the politics of perception and the emergent dynamics of collective life.
