Jorge Bafico
Montevideo, Uruguay, 1969.
Jorge Bafico is a visual artist, psychoanalyst, writer, and educator.
He lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been practicing psychoanalysis since 1993 and holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Salvador (Argentina). He is a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) and the Montevideo Lacanian Group (GLM), and serves as an adjunct professor at the Clinical Institute of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of the Republic (UDELAR).
A member of Emilio Bolinches’ workshop for his artistic training, he develops his artistic practice in dialogue with an extensive clinical and intellectual trajectory, constituting an autonomous field of formal and conceptual research within contemporary art.
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Publications
— 2025 · 1st International Group Exhibition UyArt! – Brazil.
— 2024 · Abyssal World – UTU Central Cultural Center,
Montevideo, Uruguay.
— 2022 · Generations, A través del Arte Gallery · Montevideo, Uruguay. Curated by Héctor Pérez.
— 2022 · Generations, Embassy of Uruguay · Buenos Aires, Argentina.
— 2021 · Group Exhibition, Emilio Bolinches Workshop · Montevideo, Uruguay.
— Love Sessions (Tusquets, 2024)
— Elephant Stories (Tusquets, 2023)
— The Analyst’s Craft (Debate, 2022)
— So Close to Shining (Sudamericana, 2021)
— Contemporary Lives (Ediciones de la Plaza, 2019)
— Life Goes On (Sudamericana, 2018)
— The Origin of Monstrosity (Urano, Argentina, 2015)
— Remnants of Stories (Aguilar, 2014)
— Things That Happen (Aguilar, 2012)
— Dogs Speak to Me (Ediciones de la Plaza, 2011)
— The Everyday (Psicolibros, 2009)
— Shall We Talk About Love? (Ediciones de la Plaza, 2008)
— Crazy Cases (Fin de Siglo, 2006).
Conferencias y charlas
institucionales y empresariales
— 2025 · 1st International Group Exhibition UyArt! – Brazil.
— 2024 · Abyssal World – UTU Central Cultural Center,
Montevideo, Uruguay.
— 2022 · Generations, A través del Arte Gallery · Montevideo, Uruguay. Curated by Héctor Pérez.
— 2022 · Generations, Embassy of Uruguay · Buenos Aires, Argentina.
— 2021 · Group Exhibition, Emilio Bolinches Workshop · Montevideo, Uruguay.