Luis Jacob

Luis Jacob (born 1971) is a Canadian artist, writer, curator and educator living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Life and work Jacob was born in Lima, Peru and moved to Canada with his family when he was ten. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996.

In March 2010 Jacob's piece, Album IV, was shown at the Guggenheim Museum as part of Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance .

Literature Henry Keazor, `The Stuff You May Have Missed´: Art, Film and Metareference in The Simpsons, in: The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media. Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation, hrsg. von Werner Wolf in Zusammenarbeit mit Katharina Bantleon und Jeff Thoss, Amsterdam/New York 2011, p. 463 - 490 (shows Jacob´s reference to "The Simpsons" in his work "Album III" at the documenta 12)