Jazael Olguín Zapata

Jazael Olguín Zapata’s (b.1987, Mexico) work consists of searching for crossroads between genres and media: portraits that insinuate landscapes, still lifes that are comix, the search in the fertile space between figuration-abstraction; and the interstices between drawing and painting. Jazael enjoys mixing times, and art history references with vernacular imaginaries from fragmented and fluid identity narratives, blurring the boundaries between genres, spaces and disciplines; to overflow the limits of painting and insist on its relevance within contemporary visual culture, not only as a plastic technique but also as a way of producing unique images that are relevant to address the present context of our localities and of the world(s).

He has done a number of zines, collaborations, propaganda, shows, etc. and a graphic novel in 2019, titled LLoverá sobre Egipto después del fin del mundo. More recently, he was invited to do documentation of conversations or assemblies through drawing for the Organization as a Medium of Contemporary Art at Kunstraum in Leuphana in 2023, as well as documentafifteen (2022) as part of Arts Collaboratory ecosystem.

 
EDUCATION

2009 – 2013 Visual Arts at La Esmeralda: National School of Art
2006 – 2007 Political Science at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

Solo

2022 Drawing the City, HASE.Studio Berlin, Germany
2022 Primitive Fundamentals/continental Tires, Nikki, Hannover, Germany
2020 Tremors:a possgraff antifesto, Rinomina, Paris, France
2018 Amarres-Descarnes, NERIBarranco & BWSMX, Ciudad de México, Mexico

Group

2024 Omuamua, curated by Guillermo Santamarina, Acapulco 62, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 documentafifteen, Kassel, Germany
2020 International Summit of Independent Spaces, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2020 A partir del encierro, Acapulco 62, Ciudad de México, Mexico
2020 Der Arf Nira en Egar UOC, NERIBarranco & Rinomina Paris, France
2018 COURAGE:near infrared, Rinomina París, France 
2018 Autoreconstrucción Detritus, MuCA UNAM, Ciudad de México, Mexico
2017 Conundrum of Imagination, Museo Leopold, Vienna, Austria
2017 Working for the Commons, Casco Art Institue, The Netherlands 

Date of residency: 19.02.2024 – 25.03.2024