Juan Yoc

Juan Yoc, was born in Guatemala City in 1960. The Maya roots are reflected in the work through his particular vision based on magical realism, the mixture of mythological creatures and animals that coexist within a dreamlike space, where the figure Feminine occupies a predominant place. Currently Yoc resides in Spain where he arrived to stay in 1991. He lives in the mountains of Madrid next to a natural environment.

Yoc dominates the drawing, the engraving, the watercolor and the painting. Use mixed techniques integrating oil, acrylic, watercolor, inks, charcoal, pen, marker pen and pencil. He is able to draw like Alberto Durero or Francisco de Goya, has assimilated the techniques of the great masters, but he has been profiling his own personality creating an unmistakable seal. Its supports are paper, cardboard, wood, canvas and any surface to be transformed by his creative hand.

Juan Yoc is a figurative artist mainly as a draftsman, but as a plastic artist he dares with abstract painting and also paints figurative works and in some cases mixes abstraction and figuration in the same work. He fluently manipulates the color he has inherited from the colorful riches of Guatemalan looms, the visual richness of the tropical landsc...

Juan Yoc studied art at the National School of Plastic Arts (ENAP) in Guatemala City in 1978-1982.

Later he was professor of artistic drawing level III in the same ENAP of 1986-1992.

1990 Participates in the Workshop "Aesthetic Concepts", directed by the Guatemalan painter and architect Elmar Rojas.
1989 Founder of the group of painters ITZUL.
1988 Creditor of the "Mexican Culture" Scholarship, Mexico. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala.

2016 "Paintings, drawings", El Túnel Gallery, Guatemala City.
2015 "Imaginary Faces, imagined", Antigua Gallery, Guatemala.
2014 "On the other side of the sea", El Túnel Gallery, City of Guatemala.
"Of roots and raigambres", exhibition room, Casa de Cultura, San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
2011 “Lines and Spots”, Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo Del Escorial,
2010 “Trilogy, Drawings”, Die-augen Gallery, Guatemala.
2008 “Between the Dream and the Vigil”, exhibition hall Casa de Cultura, San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
2007 “Erotic Drawings”, Carlos Woods Gallery, Guatemala City.
2006 “Exhibition, Naked looks, drawings and engravings”, Fund. Progreso y cultura, Madrid.
2005 “Series The Don Quixote. Watercolors, Drawings, Acrylics and Engravings”. House of America, Madrid.
“Series The Don Quixote. Watercolors, Drawings, Acrylics and Engravings. Casa de la Cultura, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid.
2004 “Dual track images”. Annta Gallery, Madrid.
2002 “Fish and other beings”. Casa de la Cultura, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid.
“Paintings and prints”. El Sitio Gallery, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
“Exhibition of engravings”. Annta Gallery, Madrid.
2001 “Paintings and drawings”. Café Babel, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid...