Venezuelan artist born in 1993, Luis Carlos Figueroa, investigates how fiction constitutes identity through painting. His pictorial work often consists of images of places occupied by characters that are constructed from historical events, religious imagery, collective imagination, and personal experiences. His images evoke the dreamlike and seek to refer to the fragility of the places we occupy. His work is complemented by an investigation on color, focused on its relationship with the spiritual in contemporary times.

 

In 2015, he received a BFA Interdisciplinary degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has carried out artistic residencies at McPhee Center for Creative Learning (Halifax, 2016) and at Fundación Arquetopia (Puebla, 2017). He has exhibited his work both in Mexico and Canada in collective projects such as Whereabouts (Halifax, 2014), Systems of Painting (Halifax, 2015), Fragments of Reality (Halifax, 2015), Art of Leverage (Toronto, 2016), Ritual ⁄ Virtual (Halifax, 2016), Deadline 7 (Monterrey, 2020), FAMA (Monterrey, 2020), Feria FAIN (Monterrey, 2021), Comerse el ojo, para metabolizar la pintura (CDMX, 2021) and CLAVO MOVIMIENTO (CDMX, 2021), El triunfo de la pintura (Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, 2021), and individuals such as Light Works (Halifax, 2015) and Piedra su sueños serán (Monterrey, 2021).

 

Figueroa is currently finishing his master’s degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León.