Juan Pablo Mapeto
Concepción, Chile, 1985
Since his childhood, he has followed the path of art, initiating his studies in a self-taught manner, developing artistic works with various collectives, and participating in the local music scene. He moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study visual arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), where he pursued studies in painting, engraving, drawing, and sculpture. His career includes exhibitions in various countries. He won the "Mérito artístico y cultural ABCH" award for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Buenos Aires. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, he participated in the documentary "Exposto" and also in collective art exhibitions and art fairs, in addition to creating album covers for national and international bands. In 2021, he founded Proyeto Prismas, a project focused on documenting and bringing together artistic processes among artists. Currently, the project has held two exhibitions in São Paulo and in Mexico City, curated by Mapeto.
Among the activities carried out in recent years are participation in the Tijuana Triennial: I International Pictorial (Mexico), an individual exhibition at Galeria Gruta in São Paulo, participation in collective exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, Athens, and Mexico City. His projects are focused on a new figuration of the pictorial landscape where digital opens new spaces for reflection on the functioning of memory and its impacts.