Helwing Villamizar

The artistic practice of Helwing Villamizar (b. 1974, Caracas, Venezuela) ranges from paintings influenced by post–World War II American female abstract expressionism and 1970s film to projects that explore mid-XX century Venezuelan artists and cultural institutions and their relationship to his own bi-cultural artistic identity.

Villamizar moved to the US when he was 11 and began his art studies there while his parents completed their post-graduate work in theology. Seven years later, he moved back to Venezuela to start his BA at the Armando Reverón art institute, where he would explore his sense of alienation in his own country through painting.

Villamizar’s work has been shown at major Caracas galleries and museums, including the Sala Mendoza, the Fine Arts Museum, the Alejandro Otero Museum, and the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art. His work has also been featured at the X Iberoamerican Art Fair, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art ULA, and the KuZo Culture Zone Sziget Festival, and he has participated as an invited artist in the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection’s Emerging Connections program.

He lives and works in Caracas, Venezuela.

Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas "Armando Reverón" (IUESAPAR) – 1992-1997. Caracas, Venezuela.

Villamizar is currently working on his first solo show (2023).

Group Exhibitions:

2017- Performance during the 2017 Venezuelan protests. Plaza Altamira, Public Defence buildings, Ministry of Education, Caracas.

2014 - Hacia el Plano Verde. Segunda Edición. Centro de Artes Integradas, Caracas.

2013 - Algo/ritmos: Código y poìesis. Taller Curatorial Experimental III. Periférico Caracas Arte Contemporaneo, Los Galpones, Caracas.

2011 - KuZo Culture Zone. Sziget Festival. Óbudai Island, Budapest.

2011 - XX Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Espacio Mad. Hotel Tamanaco, Caracas.

2011 - Transhumanos et al, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas.

2010 - Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ULA 2010. ULA, Mérida.

2010 - Punctum. Hotel Paseo Las Mercedes, Caracas.

2008 - Click. Hotel Paseo Las Mercedes, Caracas.

2006–2007 - I Bienal del Fuego: Imágenes, Ritos y Metáforas: Fuego Camina Conmigo, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas.

2005 - III Salón de Arte Exxonmobil 2005, Hombre y Sociedad, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas.

2004 - Subasta de Arte Ligero y Anodino, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas.

2004 - PAPEL X, Galería Blasini, Caracas.

2004 - Pintura Fresca, Muestra de Pintura Contemporánea, Sala de Arte Pequive...