biography
Born in 1963 in Caracas, Venezuela, he studied Architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela from 1981 to 1986 and then in 1992 he received a Bachelor in Fine Arts at the Federico Brandt Institute of Fine Arts in Caracas
In 1987 he was the recipient of the Corpbanca Grant. His first solo show, Opus Nigrum in 1989, was the starting point of a series of exhibitions throughout the world in a lapse of more than 30 years, including venues like New York, Paris, Chicago, Atlanta, Madrid, Lyon, Stockholm, Lisbon, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Brasilia, Milano, Barcelona and Tenerife, Los Angeles, Denver, among others.
In 2000 he moves to Miami, Florida; marking a turning point on his career. He went from painting to explore new medias, installations and Video Art.
In 2006 he won the 4th Prize with his piece No-Thing at the MoLAA Awards, ( Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California). In 2015 received an Honorable Mention at the Rozas-Botrán Awards. He has also participated in special projects as “Planair d’Ete Randezvous de Tableaux des Caribes”, Germany, 2004; VISION: A, Instituto Cervantes (around the world) 2007-2008; 1ra Trienal del Caribe, Santo Domingo República Dominicana, 2010-2011; 1ra Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Merida, Venezuela, 2010; REMEMBERING /
PROVIDING / RESISTING, a tandem project with Eugenio Espinoza at Centro Cultural Español in Miami; El dibujo fuera de si, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, (with Magdalena Fernandez and Alejandro Otero).
The list of solo projects includes: Fragile Action curated by Roc Laseca, at Ideobox-Saludarte; Elíptico, at Sala Mendoza in Caracas, Venezuela, 2016 (in collaboration with Henrique Faria Fine Art); Artists don’t work, I only work with artists, Trinta Galeria, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2019; Re-Collector at Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela 2019, the two, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, USA, 2020.
His works are present in many private and public collections like Estrellita Brodsky’s Collection, Brillembourg-Capriles Collection, Arturo Filio, Arturo Mosquera, Lothar Muller, Miami Dade College’s Collection, JCMAC, and MoLAA’s Permanent Collection, to name a few.