About – Filio Acosta Del Río

FILIO Acosta Del Río (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1975) is an Argentine visual artist based in Barcelona.

His practice focuses primarily on painting and explores the relationship between body, suspension and the perception of time. Through compositions in which the human figure appears floating or in a state of unstable balance, his work investigates the possibility of an expanded time, a pause in the experience of the present.

He studied graphic design at Universidad de Palermo. He trained as a painter in workshops in Chivilcoy and Buenos Aires, including open classes with Antonio Pujía and Ponciano Cárdenas at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova, and in Barcelona, where he completed the annual drawing and painting programme at the Barcelona Academy of Art. He is currently completing his thesis for the Master’s in Contemporary Art Curatorship at Universidad del Salvador (USAL).

In 2026 he won First Prize at the IV Premi Renart (Barcelona) and an Honourable Mention at the XLI Certamen Internacional de Pintura Ciudad de Hellín, and his work was selected for the Puçol and Martos painting competitions and the Meliana Art Biennial. Since 2013 he has taken part in group exhibitions and art fairs in Argentina, Spain and Hong Kong, including shows at MALBA, Fundación Fortabat and MEAM, and the Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong. In 2015 he took part, by invitation, in a performance by Liu Bolin at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA).

His recent work centres on the painting series Ingravidez (Weightlessness), in which the body appears suspended in a gravity-free space as a metaphor for an expanded pause in the experience of time.