Alfredo Machado Zingg

Alfredo Machado is a self-taught painter born in Venezuela and shaped by years in Puerto Rico, now based in Florida. His work moves fluidly across landscape, figuration, and abstraction — driven equally by memory, place, the human figure, and the spiritual.

Rooted in the light, color, and emotional intensity of Latin America, his paintings range from storm-swept Caribbean hills and moonlit villages to figures rising, dancing, dissolving into light. Painting is, for him, pure release: an unmediated encounter between feeling and surface, built through bold gestural mark-making and a personal vocabulary of calligraphic line.

Machado's work has found collectors across the United States and internationally through Saatchi Art, and continues to evolve across an active, prolific practice

Marquette University. BSBA, MBA