Biography

I’m an artist and architect from Guatemala whose practice moves between large-scale murals, intimate portraits, and layered installations that live somewhere between the analog and the digital. My background in architectural lighting informs the way I understand space—not just as volume, but as an emotional atmosphere. Whether I’m working on a graffiti piece over a salvaged door or painting a face that dissolves into pixels, I’m always drawn to what’s hidden beneath the surface.

My paintings often begin with a question, not an answer. I’m fascinated by memory, identity, and the things we carry but cannot name. Through recurring elements—flowers, fragments, silhouettes, sunglasses, old books, neon tones—I assemble stories that are both personal and collective. Many of my portraits are incomplete, interrupted, or intentionally obscured, inviting viewers to fill in the gaps with their own narratives.

I see color as a portal. My palette shifts from nostalgic pastels to bold neons, sometimes mimicking the look of vintage photographs, sometimes glitching into digital errors. Each hue I choose speaks to a moment, a rhythm, a state of mind. I want my paintings to feel like echoes: familiar but unplaceable, tender but unsettling.

Throughout my career, I’ve explored how scale transforms intimacy. I work on canvases and circular formats, but also on walls and public surfaces that become part of the city’s memory. In my mural practice, I respond to the urban landscape as a living, breathing entity—a place where silence, history, and color collide.

Beyond the canvas, I’m building a body of work that is both poetic and structured, rooted in emotion but shaped by the discipline of design. My dual path—artist and architect—is not a contradiction. It’s my method.

It’s how I make sense of the fragments.