Gilberto Padron

Born in Caracas in 1952.
At age 15 begins his artistic training process, with the realization of advertising drawing courses at the Higuera Giménez Academy in Caracas.
At age 20, worked with the painter Loris Barey, as assistant in the Landscape Workshop, also attends the Free Painting Workshop at the School of Plastic Arts Cristóbal Rojas of Caracas; Where he meets the muralist Gabriel Bracho (1915-1995), with whom he cultivated a long time friendship.
He was a founding member, along with the artists Gabriel Bracho and Luis Domínguez Salazar, of the new Public Art Workshop.
He directed and advised museological and archaeological projects in Zulia State: Gabriel Bracho House Museum and Museum of Man, Puertos de Altagracia; Maracaibo Anthropological Museum; "Rescue archeology in the North Mine", Guasare-Socuy Carboniferous Microregion, "Study of archaeological prospecting in the area of the projected shipping terminal in Pararú", Municipality Páez.

1982-1986. He lived in Paris, France, where he studied Art History and Museology at L'Ecole du Louvre; Restoration of Easel Painting in the Atelier de Restauration Renato Vassallo; and Restoration and Conservation of Art and Archeological Objects at the University of Paris / Panthéon-Sorbonne.
He studied Anthropology at the School of Anthropology of the Central University of Venezuela.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1973 - 1979. Participates in different collective exhibitions in the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

1984. Premier Interculturel Festival of the Goutte d'Or. Paris France.
1985. Les Grandes Options de l´Art Venezuelien. Embassy of Venezuela. Paris France.
1986. Laberenne, Padrón, Pergay et Zañartu. Atelier Catherine Gutmacher. Paris France.

INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS

2001. Small and Large Formats
Mirage Shopping Exhibition Hall. Eastern City, Paraguay
2006. Small Formats. Exhibition hall of the Maria Faucon boutique. Apt, Vaucluse, France.
2008. Medium and Large Formats. As part of the Asunción event “Kapital World of Fiction”, Livio Abramo Gallery, Cultural Center of the Brazilian Embassy. Asuncion, Paraguay.

2011.Ñomongeta, Musical Pictorial Dialogue, with maestro Cesar Lito Barrios, as part of the celebration of the bicentennial of Venezuela and Paraguay. Under the auspices of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Paraguay. Livio Abramo Gallery, Cultural Center of the Brazilian Embassy in Asunción, Paraguay.

2018. Pareidolia, I see, you see ... Exaedro, Art Gallery.