Jabid Salcedo

I chose to devote my life to artistic creation after earning my medical degree. As a Dominican multidisciplinary artist, my practice spans contemporary painting, music, screenwriting, and other creative disciplines because I believe that art is, at its essence, a single language. Whether expressed through painting, music, literature, or cinema, the creative impulse remains the same; only the medium through which it materializes changes.

I believe artists are society's barometers. In an increasingly uncertain world, our role extends beyond creating images—we sense and give form to the emotions, tensions, contradictions, and invisible forces that move beneath the surface of everyday life. Rooted in Caribbean essence, my work seeks to transform those hidden realities into expressive painting and symbolic visual language.

Self-taught multidisciplinary artist. My artistic education has been shaped through independent study, continuous practice, and research across painting, music, literature, and cinema.

Winner, Juan Bosch Short Story Award, FUNGLODE, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

PazArte, Ishinomori Manga Museum, Tohoku, Japan, 2015

Official Selection, Photography Award Exhibition, Centro de la Imagen, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2015

Rastros, Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2010