Lucio Arellano is a filmmaker and visual artist from Rockford, Illinois who is interested in exploring the non-linear and personal relationships found between the concepts of time, tradition, memory, and family through combinations of expressive digital and analog media. An MFA candidate in the Film, Video, Animation and New Genres program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Arellano continues to explore the concepts of utility and illusion as they apply to non-fiction-adjacent media. Arellano has screened work locally and internationally. A recipient of the Adoor Gopalakrishnan Award for Artistic Merit, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Grant, and the Poor Farm Open Fund, Arellano has also been featured in the biannual Vernacular Publication as well as in group exhibitions locally and regionally.

Lucio Arellano is currently based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he lives and works as a Non-Fiction Officer for the Milwaukee Non-Fiction Fellowship.