Brian Felix (b. 1989, Manhattan) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Trained in automotive engineering before moving into film and media studies, his practice bridges mechanical systems and digital culture. Working across photography, video, software-driven publishing, and networked experiments, Felix investigates how images, labor, and identity circulate in contemporary life.
Drawing from his Colombian and Dominican heritage and from working-class car culture, Felix often stages encounters between horses and engines, tumbleweeds and plastic bags, folklore and infrastructure. These gestures are not nostalgic but structural. They examine how tradition mutates inside cities, and how immigrant identity adapts within technological environments.
A recurring motif in Felix’s work is “magic,” not as spectacle but as construction. He exposes seams, leaves scaffolding visible, and incorporates misdirection and humor to question authorship, value, and the mechanics of the art system itself. Recent projects expand beyond static images into participatory frameworks and serialized works that treat exhibition, publishing, and distribution as artistic material.
Felix’s work reflects on the friction between craft and code, myth and machinery, intimacy and circulation. The infrastructures shaping everyday life become sites of performance.