BIO
Jesús Moreno-Granados is a multidisciplinary artist whose career spans sculpture, sound art, and visual research. He was awarded with the prize “Emerging Artist” on 2013 by the AICA Venezuelan chapter.
Moreno-Granados's works are part of the collection of the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies (CELARG) in Caracas, as well as private collections in Venezuela, Colombia, the United States, and Spain.
Initially trained in the visual arts at the Cristóbal Rojas School of Visual Arts in Caracas Bachelor´s degrees in drawing, painting and sculpture (1999, 2000) has consolidated his training in advanced arts studies as a graduate in Master's degree in Art Education from the National University of Colombia (2017), specialized in Sound Art at the University of Barcelona (2013), MA in Sculpture from the National University of the Arts in Venezuela (2007).
He works in sculpture, ceramics, drawing, and installation with paper, resins, metal, wood, and sound, employing creative strategies derived primarily from manual labor, understood as a configurator of thought, and the observation of how and with what human beings construct meaning.
In his work, space is a living entity understood as a complex system of relationships. His creative vision is constructed from the perspective of a Latin American immigrant, son and grandson of European emigrants who settled in Venezuela during World War II.
Their artistic sensibility was initially trained in technical skills and crafts (Cristóbal Rojas School of Art, Venezuela) and later within an experimental educational model focused on the multiplicity of creative practices (National University of arts, Venezuela). Moreno is part of the Venezuelan diaspora, and therefore his work is inscribed within art made “from Latin America.”
The notions of uprooting, absence, impermanence, symbiosis, and mobility are transversal in a creative proposal that absorbs reality in order to evade it and immerse itself in its own, created to configure a refuge from which the interdependent relationships that constitute this living space as a system of significant correspondences are observed.
From this perspective, his work investigates the entropy that mediates the relationships between context, subject, and object.
Furthermore, from a very young age words have been an integral part of the artist's creative work. In this sense, he has been developing poetry and narrative works in parallel with his visual art, earning several awards and recognitions in this field.
Jesús Moreno-Granados (Venezuela, 1981) Lives and works in Switzerland.
EDUCATION
2017 -Master's Degree in Art Education. National University of Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 - Postgraduate degree in Sound Art. University of Barcelona, Faculty of Fine Arts. Barcelona, Spain.
2007 - College degree in Sculpture. National University of Arts. Caracas, Venezuela.
2000 - Bachelor’s degree. School of Visual Arts “Cristóbal Rojas”. Caracas, Venezuela.
1999 - Bachelor’s degree in Drawing and Painting. School of Visual Arts “Cristóbal Rojas”. Caracas, Venezuela.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 -“Formae Viventium” Galería 12:00. Bogotá, Colombia.
2018 - “I/O” Espacio Monitor. Caracas, Venezuela.
2013 - “Jesús Moreno” Galería La Cuadra. Caracas, Venezuela.
2010 - “Continuo Habitable” Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos “Rómulo Gallegos” Celarg, Sala NG. Caracas, Venezuela.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2025 - "Not Selected, Still Collected" Espace Libre. Biel, Switzerland.
2023 - “Latin American Art” Thames Art Centre. Brooklyn, New York, USA.
2020 - “Sound Bridges” 19th Festival of Image and Sound. Universidad de Caldas. Manizales, Colombia.
2019 - “De colección”. Espacio Monitor Gallery. Caracas, Venezuela.
2017 - Zeppelin 17. “Concrete Sounds”. CCCB - Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.