Jose Antonio Zaragoza

I have always wondered if my work possesses a certain style or calligraphy when I apply a splash of color, a hue, or a stroke to a white canvas.
I have constantly strived to ensure that my pictorial language has no boundaries between the colors, lines, and texture I apply with the brush.
I try to give it unity, harmony, and substance through
that material we call “Painting.”
In recent years, the calligraphy of my brushstrokes has been changing, aligning with my own concerns, which is to have a wide variety of colors within a single square centimeter.
But as the painter Maurice Denis said, “One must remember that a painting, before being a warhorse, a nude woman, or any anecdote, is above all a flat surface covered with colors in an orderly arrangement full of enigmas.”

1986–1990 School of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, France.

1988–1994 Apprentice in the studio of painter Igor Bitman.

1990–1993 National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France, studying anatomy under Jean François Debord.

1998–2000 Member of the art section at Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain.
French Academy of Fine Arts in France.

2018 Member of the Taylor Foundation, Paris, France.

Solo Exhibitions:

1994: M. Guy Gernesseaux, Paris, France.

1996: Olga Vidal, Paris, France.

2012: *Les Misérables* by Victor Hugo at the Provincial Museum of Jaén, Spain.

2025: Villadompardo Palace, Jaén, Spain.

Group Exhibitions:

1999: Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain.

2000: Institut de France, Paris, France.

2018: Connecting Cultures, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

2023: Art Space 7 Gallery, La Palma, Spain.

2024: Malvin Gallery, Madrid, Spain.