Joaquín Vila
Visual artist | Muralist | Cientific illustrator
Blue indigo color is an especially element in my work. I use this color because it is the only one that can express the depth, the infinite. Each stroke opens a gate into another dimension, as if the canvas was not the limit but the beginning of another world. The lines and dots represent the vibration, the energy and the electricity that runs in every living thing, they create an optical effect of subtle movement, almost imperceptible, but present.
I own a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Scenography design from the European University of Madrid and a Postgraduate in Exhibition design in Elisava, Barcelona. Scholarships by Unesco for the Watermill Foundation in New York and by the MACBA, Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona. Complementary studies in Sacred Geometry with Jaime Buhigas, Cientific Illustration in the National Museum of Science and Technology of Spain and Contemporary Art with Joana Vasconcellos, Esther Ferrer, Jaume Plensa and Daniel Canogar, among others.
STATEMENT
My personal work represents hybrid beings, half human half plants. This beings are debating visually and conceptually between the worlds of science, mythology and fantasy. They refer to the non-material nature, representing life beyond the physical, that which is not seen. It also shows symbolic elements, glyphs and patterns of different cultures and spiritual paths, creating a code of visual language that refer to the essence of all of them. Its aim is to convey that we are not something separate from nature, but that we ourselves are nature. This work is constantly changing and evolving, due to his concern to investigate new formats and expressive resources and for his continuous study about symbolism, ethnobotany, spirituality, ancestral cultures, shamanism and sacred geometry.
Studies
Bachelor in Visual Arts. UEM Madrid, Spain. 2004
Postgraduate in Exhibition Design. Elisava. Barcelona, Spain. 2008
Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude. UCM Madrid, Spain. 2007
Complementary Studies
Sacred geometry in Temples. Assumpcio Vilaseca. Barcelona. 2023
Mural painting professional techniques. Iniciativas Sur Foundation. Madrid. 2021
Scientific Illustration. MUNCYT. Madrid. 2016
Art, ecology and public use of protected natural areas. Tablas de Daimiel, Ciudad Real. 2016
Thinking the garden. School of Design, Madrid. 2015
New exhibition formats. Injuve. Madrid. 2014
Sacred Geometry. Jaime Buhigas. Centro Abierto Tomillo. Madrid. 2007
Performance. Esther Ferrer. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid
Study of the scenic space. Sala Cuarta Pared. Madrid. 2004
Contemporary Art workshops. Daniel Canogar, Rogelio López Cuenca, Joana Vasconcellos, Daniel Andujar, Carles Guerra and Mateo Maté.
Grants
MACBA. Exhibition Department. Barcelona. 2008
UNESCO. Watermil Foundation. New York. 2005
UEM. Full Scholarship for University Studies. Madrid. 2000 > 2004
Art Residencies
Domaine de Boisbuchet. Lessac, France. 2024
Westender Inn. Negril, Jamaica. 2013
Projeckthaus Potsdam. Potsdam, Germany. 2010
Conferences
My carrer as an Artist, 20 years. Escuela de Arte La Palma. Madrid. 2022
My live as a Mural Painter. Museo de Bellas Artes de Oviedo. Asturias. 2014
Art and self-sufficiency. University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. 2011
Art, Nature and Organic Agriculture. National University of Colombia. Palmira, Colombia. 2011
Publications
Wisdom and Nature auction. Christie’s & Le Ciel Foundation. USA. 2020
Celebrity Cruises APEX art collection. International Corporate Art. USA. 2020
The Sabina art collection. Sabina States. Ibiza, Spain. 2020
Felures et Lumieres Exhibition . Atelier Gustave. París, France. 2019
XXIV Muestra Artes Plásticas del Principado de Asturias.
XVIII Certamen Jóvenes Pintores. Fundación Gaceta. Salamanca. 2013
Blog Exhibition . Comunidad de Madrid. 2004
Individual exhibitions
2024 Samsara, PEM City Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2022 Art and Landscape Studio, Alicante, Spain.
2018 Homecore, Paris, France.
2018 Babel, Madrid, Spain.
2017 Aniwa Gathering, Ibiza, Spain.
2017 Grafik Schweiz, Zürich, Switzerland. 2015 La Paloma, Ibiza, Spain.
2014 Octógono Gallery, Avilés, Spain.
2013 Westender Inn Hotel, Negril, Jamaica. 2012 Art House, Avilés, Spain.
Collective exhibitions
2025 Justmad Art Fair. PEM City Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2021 Wisdom & Nature, Christie’s London. UK
2020 Wisdom & Nature, Christie ́s New York, US
2019 Felures et Lumières, Atelier Gustave, París, France.
2019 3rd World Ayahuasca Conference. Girona, Spain.
2019 Visionarium Art Festival Barcelona, Spain.
2018 Estampa Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.
2017 Seeds of Anaconda, Sierra Nevada, Colombia.
2017 Neusicht Festival, Lucern, Switzerland.
2017 Miscelanea II. Vale Art Center, Asturias, Spain.
2016 Seeds of Anaconda, Putumayo, Colombia.
2014 1st World Ayahuasca Conference, Ibiza, Spain.
2013 Oviedo Art Fair, Lola Orato Gallery, Asturias, Spain.
2013 Ideas for a planetary garden, Lola Orato Gallery, Asturias.
2012 Enjambre, Ecolab, Laboral Centro de Arte, Asturias, Spain.
2012 #Kedarte2012, Art and Technology meeting, Salamanca, Spain.
2010 Free Art Celebration, Potsdam, Germany.
2008 StripArt, Centre Civic Guinardó, Barcelona, Spain.
2005 Empty, Videoart Festival, Moscú, Rusia.
2005 Watermil Center, New York, US.
2005 Cimientos, Qué mas de arte Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2004 Blog, Sala de Arte Injuve, Madrid, Spain.