JUANDRES VERA

Mexico

Juandrés Vera was born on April 8, 1980. in Monterrey, Mexico. From an early age he showed a taste and outstanding ability to drawing themes such as animals, landscapes, comic strips and cartoons.

He studied a Bachelor of Visual Arts with accentuation in cameraman arts. At the beginning of their studies and alternate to academia, he participated in a contest of street art, showing his talent for the realist genre painting and thus obtaining the first prize in two consecutive editions.

He abandoned temporarily his studies, dedicating himself to paint decorative murals exclusively during 4 years. At the conclusion of Bachelor’s degree, he began its production of his studio work on easel, painting a series of pieces inspired on the urban collective transport by applying acrylic paint on non-skid vinyl. 

Since then he uses realism as a tool to address diverse topics such as still life, religion, politics, etc., through the use of visual rhetorical figures such as metaphors, allegories and analogies among others.

His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in cities such as Monterrey, Guanajuato and Durango, Mexico, Paris, France and New York, United States.

In addition to the production of easel, Juandres Vera has obtained several awards from urban art projects such as both ephemeral and permanent murals in twodimensional mode and anamorphic mode (3D) in countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Thailand, Dubai, among others.

Currently Juandrés Vera is based in Leon, Mexico.

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