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