Juan Mayí

juan mayÍ

painter, draftsman and sculptor. Born in San Francisco de Marcoris, Dominican Republic in 1963.

From 1979 to 1985

he follows classes at the «Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes» in Santo Domingo.

From 1989 to 1994, Juan Mayí studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France.

He lives and works in France from 1989 to 2000. In 1992 he wins the "Palette d’or" at the International Painting Festival of Cagnes-sur-Mer.

In 2005 he receives the first prize of drawing at the XXII Biennial of Visual Arts in Santo Domingo.

In 2007 he receives the Grand Award of the XXIV Biennial of Visual Arts in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

He has received over ten awards and honors at the Biennial of Visual Arts in Santo Domingo, have won four consecutive awards, both in drawing and painting.

His works are part of public and private institutions in United States, Europe, Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean.

press review

personal exhibitions

*Tiempo Después, Arawak art gallery, Santo Domingo, 2006.
*Lounges of the French Embassy, Santo Domingo, 2004.
*Con-Figuraciones-Signicas, El Espacio art gallery, 2003.
*Ruta Roja, Museum of Dominican Family century XIX Santo Domingo, 2002.
*Memoria Signica y otros Territorios, El Espacio art gallery, 2000.
*Memoria Signica. Voluntariado de las Casas Reales, Casa de Batidas, 2000.
*Azul sobre los Signos Rojos, Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, 1998.
*Signos e Imágenes, Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo, 1997.
*Orly sud Gallery, Aéroport de Paris, 1995
*Solojo, La Galería, Santo Domingo, 1994.
*Solojo, 25th International Festival of Painting, Cagnes sur Mer, Francia, 1993.
*Formas Paralelas, Nouveau Gallery, Santo Domingo, 1992.
*Carte Blanche, Espace Saint-Jacques, Saint Quentin, Francia1991
*and more ....

CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN

'In the same path of the sun "

the creative excitement

imagination free

real wonderful

strong sensual magical spontaneous

SPIRITUAL

Memory Sígnica

memory of the signs

ancestral melting

The «I Am» encounter

if I paint as I paint

it’s because I am a Caribbean