Jorge Puron

Jorge Purón (b. 1969) is a self-informed painter who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. His art is influenced by a life lived on both sides of the US-Mexico border. With over 100 bi-national solo and group exhibitions, his work has been shown at the Museo Alameda in San Antonio, Texas; Brownsville Museum of Fine Art in Brownsville, Texas; El Paso Museum of Art in El Paso, Texas; Museo Reyes Meza in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, among others. In 2002, he co-founded Jardin del Arte a project to promote artists in San Miguel de Allende, and in 2010, he was appointed Advisor to the Municipal Council of Culture in the border city of Piedras Negras, Mexico. Most recently in 2013, Purón received the Erick Schaudies Memorial Award at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas, the top prize for Third Coast National juried exhibition. His work is part of private and corporate collections in North America and Europe. He has also worked in cinema as an Art Director and Set Designer for independent short and full-length features. Purón is currently in a group exhibition with visual artists from South Texas titled Un Provincial (2016).

Self informed

Over 95 national and international individual and group exhibits.

For a complete CV including exhibition history, awards, bibliography, corporate collections and work experience, please reference my personal website.

www.jorgepuron.net