Dani Umpi (Tacuarembó, Uruguay, 1974. Lives between Punta del Este and Buenos Aires), is a multidisciplinary artist from the queer scene of the Río de la Plata.
His work is compulsive, hyperactive, bordering, encompassing every imaginable intersection between the cultural industry, popular culture, literature, music and the visual arts.
He operates from a character with self-parody overtones, a hybrid between the drag tradition and conceptual performance. He regularly performs recitals in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. He published novels made into films and theater.
Among his pieces, great works in collages with paper stand out, in constant reference to artists of Brazilian Neoconcretism and Pop Art. With cumulative exuberance and chromatic lust he makes unexpected esoteric and melodramatic winks, speculating between the transcendent and the banal.