Miguel A. Aragón was born and raised in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and currently lives and works in New York. Often appropriating photographs of extreme violence printed in Mexican newspapers, Aragón explores memory, perception, and the multiple. He uses erasure as language through the use of processes that are reductive in nature. His hope is that this destructive process can be seen as constructive in some ways. The negation of an image is not actually nothing; the void becomes a space nurturing the memory of what was there before. He has displayed his art both nationally and internationally, and now works as an assistant professor of art at the CUNY college of Staten Island.