Luis Lopez

I was born in Puerto Rico and I currently live in Hamburg, Germany. I studied Art at the University of Puerto Rico and the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

My work is often intertwined with feelings of ambivalence and metaphorical confrontations. I try to challenge our visual perceptions and our daily routine with a playful irony based on symbols and images, and how other poetic forms of visualization can be reached through them. My pieces are a kind of poetic transducer of modern collective isolation, existential questioning and the displacement of the individual in spaces and situations where uncertainty is an intrinsic part of the work itself. Themes such as the ambiguity of life, poetry, dreams, time, philosophy, literature and man's struggle to survive in his environment are very essential elements of my work. In my case, a painting can take many forms and meanings, while I am in the process of painting, the work slowly metamorphoses and evolves, until it reaches the point of being "finished". In most of my pieces, the result of each work is completely different from what I had in mind at the beginning and that is what I like about painting and drawing, spontaneity, fluidity, not forcing anything but being authentic. ...

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Centro de Adiestramiento y Bellas Artes (C. A. B. A) Trainning Center of Fine Arts, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

2021 - London Art Biennale, UK
2019 - 48.h Neukölln Art Festival, Open Studio, Berlin.
2018 - 48.h Neukölln Art Festival, Open Studio, Berlin.
2016 - Popcorn Collective, Group Exhibition, Berlin.
2014 - Fusion Festival, Artistic Collaboration with Latin American artists, Lärz , Germany
2013 - SO36 Group Exhibition, Berlin
2012 - Pony Bar, Solo Exhibition: Was soll die Welt Kosten?, Hamburg
2011 - Kunstkiosk, Solo Exhibition, Hamburg
2010 - Siena Gallery, Group Exhibition, San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
2009 - La Tertulia, Solo Photography Exhibition, Río
Piedras, Puerto Rico
Fundación Arana, Collective Exhibition of young emerging Puerto Rican artists. San José St., Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2008 - Da'House Hotel, Lobby Gallery Exhibition, San
Juan, Puerto Rico
2007 - Outdoor Exhibition Art Event, Old San Juan,
Puerto Rico
-Cronopios Bookshop, Solo Exhibition, Old San
Juan, Puerto Rico
2005 - Colectivo Salón de Arte, Art Students Group
Expo, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
2004 - El Imperfecto, Group Exhibition, Madrid