Juan Diego Pérez La Cruz is a Venezuelan visual artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Minnesota. His work explores themes related to memories, immigration and identity through moving images, installations, and performances. Over the last decade, he has been working on a piece that delves into how personal experiences can become collective narratives, which create visual systems that transcend individual and territorial borders.

His artistic practice focuses on the relationship between body, territory, and the fragility of memories, using documentary and experimental strategies to build intimate, poetic stories. Juan Diego Pérez La Cruz’s art emerged as a counter-archive against the Venezuelan dictatorship, which strikes its people, violates their rights, and has forced more than 8 million people into exile. Faced with this reality, his work is an act of resistance, a place to remember and condemn. Persecution and forced migration are the driving forces behind his artistic creation, with which he aims to rebuild stolen memories and challenge oppression.

Apart from his creative work, Juan Diego teaches at public schools in Minnesota and the University of Minnesota, where he promotes art as a tool of connection and social transformation. He also founded the Plataforma Raíz, an initiative dedicated to the professional and artistic development of the migrant and Latin community of the United States.

Galleries, public spaces, and film festivals exhibit his work, which addresses displacement, identity, and cultural resistance through sensitive and committed visual narratives.