Fernando Arias's (Armenia, Quindío, 1963) work critically examines systems of religious and political power and the cultural tensions they produce. His practice uses the body as a discursive medium — through action and performance — alongside installation, object-based work, video, and photography, to articulate an ethical critique of mechanisms of social control. Arias has also developed community-based projects that situate art within contexts outside the institutional circuit. 

Arias studied Advertising and Marketing at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Bogotá, 1987) and later completed a master's degree in graphic design with an emphasis on Computer Graphics in London. Since then, he has maintained a practice divided between the United Kingdom and Colombia, with working periods in Chocó and Bogotá. He has exhibited and developed projects across Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as at institutions such as MAMBO (Bogotá) and the Daros Latinamerica collection. In 2011 he co-founded Más Arte Más Acción, a nonprofit platform dedicated to interdisciplinary art projects with communities in the Colombian Pacific. He lives and works in Armenia, Quindío.