Miguel Antonio Horn

Teaching Artist, Water Spirit

Miguel Antonio Horn is a sculptor from Philadelphia with Colombian and Venezuelan roots. He received a certificate in 2006 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and apprenticed for five years with Mexican artist Javier Marin. He creates large-format sculptures using digital and analog processes in a variety of media. 

For Lenapehoking~Watershed, Horn was in residence at the Independence Seaport Museum for 3 weeks in October, working with a the teen group Fuerza through the Arts and Culture program of Juntos, a community-led, Latinx immigrant organization in South Philadelphia fighting for human rights of workers, parents, youth, and immigrants. He led the group in a process of designing and printing a large scale banner in response to the ARC installation; incorporating images from the group’s lives and experiences.

Horn's artworks have been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of the Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and as part of the Vancouver Biennale. He has several permanent public installations in the Philadelphia region, Canada and Mexico. From 2011 to 2019, Horn contributed to exhibitions programming and public outreach for the West Philadelphia artist-run  Traction Company. He founded El Cubo in the Parkside neighborhood of Philadelphia in 2019 as a space for experimental projects and programming; and is the father of two young children who he raises with his wife and community in South Philadelphia.