Ian Waelder is a Spanish-American artist and publisher. He studied Fine Arts under the mentorship of Haegue Yang and Peter Fischli at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he currently lives. His work is primarily based on concepts linked to memory, trace and language, using media ranging from photography and sculpture to sound and installation.

He has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Rolando Anselmi (Rome), ethall (Barcelona), Centro Párraga (Murcia), The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki), L21 (Madrid/Palma) and LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago de Chile), among others. He has also participated in numerous collective exhibitions in galleries and institutions such as Francis Irv (New York), Nassauischer Kunstverein (Wiesbaden), Kunstverein Wiessen, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Salón (Madrid) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).

Since 2019, alongside his artistic practice, he runs Printer Fault Press, a publishing house specialising in artists’ books.