Verny Sanchez

Verny Sanchez is a Venezuelan/American artist whose creative practices include painting, installations, assemblages, drawing and sculpture. His work, which is constructed on a continuum between abstraction and representation, explores themes of expression, communication and emotion in compositions that often blend the real and the imaginary. A distinctive pictorial language, first inspired by the ancient petroglyphs he encountered as a youth in Venezuela, has become a unique vernacular in his work that hints at an ongoing quest for identification through visual dialogue.

Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1973, Verny earned a degree in graphic design at the Instituto de Diseño de Caracas, where he later returned to lead the graphic design program as Director. He has also held teaching posts at The Altos de Chavón School of Design in the Dominican Republic, the Centro de Diseño Digital de Caracas in Venezuela, and the European Design Institute in Madrid, Spain.

Verny lived in Spain for 12 years, and became an artist-in-residence at La Escocesa, a self-managed visual artistic production center in Barcelona. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in Barcelona and Caracas, as well as in group shows in New York, Miami, Houston, Aus...

Studies Graphic Design at the Instituto de Diseño de Caracas

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2025 • "Real vs Imaginary",
Art Museum Texas, Sugarland Texas, USA
• Buffalo Bayou Mural Festival, Houston, Texas, USA
• "From Houston with Love",
The MAG Gallery (Prauper), Houston Texas, USA


2024 • Collective,
Art Museum Texas, Sugarland Texas, USA
• "The HAM Paint Jam", HAM Harrisburg Art Museum, Houston, Texas, USA


2023 • Collective,
Art Museum Texas, Sugarland Texas, USA
• Southern Glory,
The MAG Gallery (Prauper), Houston Texas, USA


2022 • "Wham HBU Shine",
Art Museum Texas, Sugarland Texas, USA
• "Houston Forever",
Prauper Gallery, Houston Texas, USA

2021 • WITHSTAND, Latinx Art in Time of Conflict,
Holocaust Museum, Houston Texas, USA


2019 • Diversity and Richness (LAN program), Sawyer Yards, Texas, USA
• HUE Houston Mural Festival
Houston, Texas, USA

2018 • Hispanic Heritage Month, City Hall of Houston, Texas, USA
• Dimension, HAM Harrisburg Art Museum, Houston, Texas, USA

2017 • The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas, USA
• HUE Houston Mural Festival
Houston, Texas, USA

2016
 • HUE Houston Mural Festival
Houston, Texas, USA

• Stated "Group exhibition "Curated by Valentina Atkinson Houston, Texas, USA

• Collective Perception "Group exhibition Curated b...