Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Arriola studied at La Esmeralda - National School of Painting, Sculpture and Recording of the National Centre for Arts in Mexico City.

Arriola began working in video in 1998, when he created the video Navarte, which presents a peculiar view of Mexico City. In 1999, Arriola produced Paseo Catódico, a reflection on the perceptions of movement and time in video. This video was awarded Best Editing and Second Place in the “experimental video” category at the Video and Electronic Art Festival - Vid@rt. It was also screened in festivals like Videoformes (Clermont Ferrand, France) and Interferences (Belfort, France).

That same year he was awarded a scholarship by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (Conaculta-Fonda 2000-2001) to produce the video Malgré-tout (2001).

Between 2000 and 2001, he exhibited Props, his first videoinstallation, in the collective exhibition Actos de Fe - imágenes transfiguradas, at the Laboratório Arte Alameda, in Mexico City.

In 2001, he created the video King, which was screened in festivals like Interferences (Belfort, France) and the 13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival (São Paulo, Brazil). That same year he produced his first solo exhibition, in which he exhibited the videoinstallation Juego Diferido at the Museu Universitário de Arte Contemporânea of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma, in Mexico City.

In 2002, his videos were screened in a retrospective exhibition (coordinated by Mike Kwella) at the House of World Cultures, in Berlin. That same year his video Still Life was selected for the 10th Bienal de Fotografia organized by the Centro de la Imagem in Mexico City. Still in 2002, he produced the documentary Mona Hatoum, about the Lebanese artist and her stay at the Laboratório Arte Alameda during an exhibition in Mexico City.

The following year, he worked together with Ivan Edeza on the video projections for the opera La Conquista de México, by Wolfgang Rhim, which was performed at the Teatro Juarez, in Guanajuato, and at the Palácio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City. This project was developed while Arriola was in residency at the ZKM, in Karlshure, Germany. That same year he curated the 1st Bienal Nacional de Arte Universitario, organized by the School of Arts of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma, in Mexico.

In 2003, he created the video Carmem, which was screened in 2004 at the Forum on Contemporary Latin American Arts of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma, in Mexico.

He also created the video Escribi en mi (2004), and a documentary on the works of the artist Pablo O´higgins, to be screened in the painter's exhibition at the Museo del Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, in Mexico City.