Classically trained realist painter  working on Landscapes and Portraits from life.

Experience

2019- PRESENT

Grand Central Atelier - Drawing and Painting Instructor

  • Core Instructor Advance 3/4  Year and Painting Year

  • Part-Time Workshop Landscape Plein-Air 2022, 2019

  • Bootcamp  Portrait Drawing and Cast Drawing 2022, 2019

  • Part-time online Program 2020 to Present

  • Part-time Teens 2019

2019- PRESENT

The Art Students League of New York - Part-time Painting Instructor

  • Direct Painting Portrait Workshop, Fall 2023, 2022

  • Plein-air Workshop, Central Park NYC, Summer 2023, 2022 2021

  • Portrait Painting in Grisaille 2019

Domestika - Published Video Painting Tutorial

  • Studio Landscape  Painting and Plein air techniques, Spring 2022

Vienna Atelier, Austria. - Painting Instructor

  • Plein-air Workshop, Summer 2023

  • Plein-air Workshop, Summer 2022

Taller de Pintura La Condesa, Mexico City - Painting Instructor

  • Still-life Painting Workshop Fall 2021

  • Plein-air Workshop, Winter  2022

Xalapa Atelier, Mexico -  Painting Instructor

  • Portrait Painting Workshop, Summer 2022

Taller La Barba Blanca, Asturias, Spain - Painting Instructor

  • Plein-Air Painting workshop, Fall 2023

Independently run Workshop, New York City - Painting Instructor

  • Plein-air Workshop, Spring 2023 Prospect Park

  • Plein-air Workshop, Spring 2022 Central Park

  • Plein-air Workshop, Fall  2021 Prospect Park

Atelier Mesones, Mexico City - Painting Instructor

  • Portrait Painting, February  2020

Paris Academy of Art - Drawing and Painting Instructor

  • Portrait Drawing Bootcamp, Summer  2019

  • Cast Drawing and Painting Bootcamp, Summer 2019

Education

2023

Master-Copy Velazquez and Madrazo. Copyist Program - Museo del Prado, Spain. - On Site granted permission for two months to study and copy the works of Spanish Painter’s Velazquez and Madrazo

2016- 2019

Grand Central Atelier, New York, NY - Core Program Drawing and Painting

2016- 2019

Grand Central Atelier, New York, NY - Figure Drawing and Painting with Colleen Barry and Will St. John. Part-Time Program.

2019

Master-Copy Kenyon Cox. Copyist Program - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. - On site granted permission to copy for one month the work of American Painter Kenyon Cox.

2017

Grand Central Atelier, New York, NY - Still-Life Painting with Devin Cecil-Wishing. Part-Time Program

2016

Grand Central Atelier, New York, NY - Architectural Drawing with Anthony Baus. Part-Time Program

2015

Chelsea Classical Studio, New York, NY- Portrait Alla Prima with Rick Pilocco.

2014

Artistic Anatomy Lab, Philadelphia - Artistic Anatomy Lab with Michael Grimaldi at Drexel University, College of Medicine.

2013-15

Jon de Martin Studio, Port Chester, New York- Cast Drawing and Painting.

2012

Chelsea Classical Studio, New York, NY- Master-copy with Brandon Soloff.

2012

Janus Collaborative, New York, NY.- Structural Head Workshop with Dan Thompson.

2010-2014

The Art Students League of New York - Certificate Program Drawing and Painting. Classes of Michael Grimaldi and Dan Thompson.

2004-2009

Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia - Bachelor in International Relations

Awards

2023 New York Figurative Show. Third Place Award. Salmagundi Club. Portrait of Clayton

2022 Salmagundi Club - Certificate of Merit Landscape Category “Finca, Colombia” Painting

2019 Portrait Society of America - Certificate of Excellence “Portrait of a Young Dancer” painting

2019 La Napoule Art Foundation/Grand Central Residency  - Recipient of the fellowship of Landscape painting in the South of France.

2023 Hudson River Fellowship/Grand Central Atelier - Hotchkiss School, Connecticut.

2021-22 Hudson River Fellowship/Grand Central Atelier - Wethersfield Garden, New York.

2019 Hudson River Fellowship/Grand Central Atelier - Shannon, Connecticut

2017 Hudson River Fellowship/Grand Central Atelier - The White Mountains, NH

2018 Student Award Scholarship/Grand Central Atelier - Excellence in Figure Painting

2017 Student Award Scholarship/Grand Central Atelier  -Cast Painting

2016 Student Award Scholarship/Grand Central Atelier - Cast Drawing

2013 Recipient of the George A. Rada Memorial Scholarship/ The Art Students League of New York - Figurative category

Selected Exhibitions

Hudson River Fellowship Exhibition. Salmagundi Club. New York. November 2023

Hudson River Fellowship Exhibition. Salmagundi Club. New York. October 2022

The Red Show. Eleventh Street Art Gallery. Long Island City, NY. December-January 2019-2020.

Capturing The Artist - Robert Simon Fine Art Gallery. East 80th St, Manhattan, NY November-December 2019.

In Situ: Up and Coming Artists from the GCA. Eleventh Street Arts Gallery, Long Island City, NY.  May 16 - June 13, 2019.

Art Students League Final Exhibition and Recent Alumni - Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY. June 21-July 5

Annual Juried Salon- Grand Central Atelier. Eleventh Street Arts Gallery, Long Island City, NY. May to August 2018

The Still Life - Contemporary Interpretations. . Eleventh Street Arts Gallery, Long Island City, NY. February 1 to March 29th, 2018

Annual Juried Salon- Grand Central Atelier, Long Island City, NY.  May 2017

Wrap me Up - Winter small group show. Eleven Street Arts Gallery, Long Island City, NY. Dec-Jan 2016-17

Annual Juried Salon - Grand Central Atelier, Long Island City, NY May 2016

Group Show NYU Kimmel Gallery, New York, NY: . June 2014

2013 Merit Scholarship Winners Exhibition. Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY. June 20 - July 6, 2014