Juan Jose Hoyos Quiles

40 x 30 x 40
In Search of Color and Geometry

Juan Jose Hoyos Quiles was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has been drawing and painting since a child. Juan attended The School of Visual Arts in NYC from 1979 to 1982 where he studied under Elizabeth Murray, Keith Sonnier, Raphael Ferrer, Nachume Miller, and Lucio Pozzi. After participating in several group shows in Tribeca and the Lower East Side, where a new gallery district was developing, Juan increasingly found it difficult to remain a full-time artist. Therefore in order to make a living, Juan worked for several decades in business management for several large companies in corporate law, accounting, and telecommunications. During this period Juan continued making art when he could but did not exhibit. After two open heart surgeries in 2011 and 2013 for congenital heart valve prolapse, Juan went into early retirement. Finally freed from money constraints, Juan relocated to Clearwater, Florida in 2014 and has returned to painting since then.

Juan is an abstract, geometric, hard-edge painter. His paintings are fueled by his love of abstraction which he has been attracted to since a child. The practice of making them has involved researching the many abstract schools of ar...

Art Students League, NYC, 1977-1979
School of Visual Arts, NYC, 1979-1982

SVA Gallery, NYC
2 Person Exhibit with Luis Stand, 1980

SVA Gallery, Tribeca, NYC
Printmakers, 1981

Kenkeleba House Gallery, NYC
The Black & White Show, 1983
Curated by Lorraine O'Grady
Corrine Jennings, Director

Caidoz Gallery, NYC
Variations, A Group Show, 1983

Art In America
Internet Exhibit, 2015
Curated by Julie Torres

HUE Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wichita, KS
Inspire/Chapter Two, 2016
Curated by Sean Christopher Ward and Lindy Duquid Wiese

Summer Camp For Masterpieces, 2017
Stirling Art Gallery, Dunedin, FL

SUPERFINE!
A Hyper-Curated, Contemporary Art Fair
Frieze Week, May 2018, NYC

"Zip, Bang, Pop! Run! It's The Cops!: Contemporary Pop Art and It's Influence On Street Art" National Invitational Exhibition, 2018
Hue Gallery of Contemporary Art
Wichita, KS


Art and Architects, 2019
Gallery AIA
Tampa, Fl

JADA Art Fair, 2021
Miami Art Week
Miami, FL

The Really Big Show, 2021
Stirling Art Gallery
Dunedin, FL

Summer Breeze, 2023
Stirling Art Gallery
Dunedin, FL

Group Show, 2023
The Factory
St Petersburg