Santiago Jaen

Visual artist, illustrator, visual creator in constant movement.

Santiago Jaén is a visual artist and illustrator with more than 30 years of experience creating, designing and communicating through images. His work is distinguished by a powerful and optimistic identity, marked by the vibrant use of colour with a structure somewhere between Iberian art and cubism and an always restless look, open to play, emotion and visual exploration, almost taken from a vague memory or a cloudy dream.

A solid career as a creative director in high-level companies and brands, Santiago has worked on projects of great visual and conceptual impact, always providing a clear, sensitive and effective aesthetic vision. His professional profile has led him to lead design, branding and identity processes in demanding environments, where he has developed a compositional acuity that is also strongly reflected in his painting.

As an artist, he has travelled a wide and diverse path, with solo and group exhibitions in different parts of Spain since the late 1990s. His work has evolved organically, going through styles, formats and stages, but always remaining faithful to one idea: art as a language to transmit, move and transform.

In recent years he has deve...

I studied Fine Arts at the University of Granada, where I began to develop my perspective on art and visual communication. Since then, I have expanded my learning at various specialised centres: IED Madrid, where I completed a Master's Degree in Branding and Visual Identity; Universal Arts School, with a Master's Degree in CGI Systems and Digital FX; AnimationGym, as a Professional 3D Character Animator; and RealFlow, where I delved deeper into computer graphics, modelling, virtual environments and simulation.

I currently combine my professional work with my artistic work. I am Creative Coordinator at Bodegas Fundador and Deputy Creative Director at PROBRAND VISUAL ARTS MANAGEMENT SL, roles that have taught me to work on large-scale visual projects with precision and creativity.

At the same time, I am developing my own style: enocubism, a form of social cubism that arises from blurred memories and poorly remembered dreams, and becomes images to be shared and felt. This fusion of training, experience and experimentation defines my way of creating: direct, visual and connected with those who contemplate the work.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
˝ Art Space Fair" (2025) Surprising with Iberian-Cubist art.
“Pincel Explorador 2” (2025), one of his most intimate and spontaneous works, focused on painting as a process of constant discovery.
“Formas en movimiento” (2024), an exhibition that reaffirmed his fusion of structure and emotion.
“Enocubismo” (2023), where he consolidated a mature, personal and free visual language.