Statement PSJM
PSJM, a creative, theoretical, and management team founded in 2003 by Cynthia Viera (Las Palmas G.C., 1973) and Pablo San José (Mieres, 1969), has been recognized internationally. They were included among the 100 most representative artists in socially engaged international art in Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism (Gestalten, Berlin, 2011). Their work is also featured in Younger than Jesus. Artist Directory (Phaidon-New Museum, New York, 2009), Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2014), and Spanish Contemporary Art 1992-2013 (La Fábrica, Madrid, 2013), among other publications.
Awarded the Can de las Artes 2025 by the Gran Canaria Island Council, PSJM’s works are part of significant collections such as the Jerry Speyer Collection in New York and the Lidia Rubinstein Collection in Los Angeles. Their work has been included in numerous international exhibitions, including Swerving the Apocalyptic Angle into Hope, Glenda Cinquegrana Gallery, Milan (2024), Museum of Democracy, NGBK, Berlin (2021), Juntos Aparte, National Museum of Colombia (2021), BIENALSUR, Museum of Immigration, Buenos Aires (2021), Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade (2020), DIVERSEartLA, LA Art Show, Los Angeles (2020), Personal Structures, 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Watch your Bubble!, Kunstverein Tiergarten – Galerie Nord, Berlin (2018), Beyond the Wall, Artpace San Antonio, Texas (2018), Superdemocracy, Belgian Senate, Brussels (2017), Beyond the Tropics, 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Hic et Nunc, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2014), and One Shot!, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo (2014). Their work has also been shown in national exhibitions such as Prophetia, Miró Foundation, Barcelona (2015), PIGS, Artium, Vitoria (2016), and Con los pies en la tierra, CAAM, Las Palmas G.C. (2022).
Notable recent solo exhibitions include Homage to Martín Chirino, Martín Chirino Foundation of Art and Thought, Las Palmas G.C. (2025), American Democracy, Cultural Center of Spain in the USA, Washington D.C. (2022), American Democracy, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (2022), Clean Future, Canary Foundation for the Development of Painting, Las Palmas G.C. (2022), Shapes for a Perfect World, Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid (2018), and Oligocracy, Sorbonne Artgallery, Paris (2017).
In the theoretical field, their publications include Art and Democratic Processes (TEA, Tenerife, 2017), Friendly Fire (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2015), and the article “Marcuse and the CIA’s Motto” (Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 2016). They founded the Sala de Arte Social (Social Art Room), curating exhibitions such as Daniel G. Andújar: Small Data (2021), the four editions of the art and ecology exhibition Biotopías (2018, 2020, 2022, 2024), and gender-focused shows Their Forms, Our Pain (2020) and It’s Personal (2019). They also curated On Present Time. Social Art From Gran Canaria (GlogaguAir, Berlin, 2024), In Good Company. Films by International Art Collectives (CCA, Las Palmas G.C, 2022), Participation: Poetics and Documents (TEA, S/C de Tenerife, 2017), Art and Citizen Participation (Las Palmas G.C., 2016), and the TV program “Carte Blanche to PSJM: Participatory Art” for the show Metrópolis on La 2 of RTVE (2024). They have given lectures at institutions including Washington State University, the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Westminster School of Arts in London, the Université Paris-Sorbonne, and the Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavik, and have conducted the PSJM•Workshop summer workshops at the Cervantes Institute in Berlin (2012-2015), the Gabinete Literario (2018-2019), and the CAAM in Las Palmas G.C (2020-2022).
