Biography
Jesus de Miguel's artistic practice is rooted primarily in painting, which he approaches as a field of intuitive experimentation where gesture, colour, and materiality form a visual language in constant transformation. Rather than beginning with fixed concepts, his work develops through spontaneous associations, allowing images, symbols, and forms to evolve throughout the creative process.
His paintings are characterised by a direct and energetic execution in which the physicality of gesture is balanced by a search for formal reduction. Primitive forms, organic figures, signs, and symbolic structures engage with references to contemporary culture, cave painting, science fiction, popular imagery, and humour. Rather than presenting a single narrative, these elements invite multiple interpretations and leave meaning intentionally open.
Through this pictorial language, Jesus de Miguel explores the human experience, the relationship between intuition and reason, collective behaviour, and the enduring presence of symbolic thought. His paintings affirm painting as a territory of freedom, where material, colour, and gesture retain the power to surprise, challenge, and open new possibilities for interpretation.
Photo by Ricardo Cases
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Beyond Words — In-Between Gallery, CAN Art Fair, Ibiza
Treasures of Dalt Vila (Group Exhibition) — In-Between Ibiza Art Gallery, Ibiza
Dentro de la Lámpara — Faro de Ses Coves Blanques, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza
2025
In Mundus (Sculptures) — Galería También, CAN Art Fair, Ibiza
Flexible Unions — Adda Gallery
Big In Mundus TGF — Commissioned sculpture, Soho Farmhouse Ibiza
2024
Exhibition with Malvina Kang Hughes — Can Tixedo, Ibiza
2023
EL GOZO (Group Exhibition) — 8 Rue Chapon, Paris
TRANSMISIÓN — CAN Art OFF Program, Sa Punta des Molí, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza
ANTÍDOTO — El Invernadero (Art U Ready), Madrid
2022
Jesidismo — CCJ Cultural Centre, Ibiza
Retratos — Estudi Tur Costa, Ibiza
Preludio (Group Exhibition) — Ses Dotze Naus, Ibiza
Aiyanna — Supported by Contemporary Art Now (CAN Art), Ibiza
2021
24h Arty People — Solo Exhibition, Paradiso Art Hotel, Ibiza
2020
Garden Art Gallery, Ibiza
2019
El Sol o es Mentira o Está Lejos — H10 Art Gallery
2018
Qué Pinto Aquí — Sala Velázquez, Madrid
Extra Ball — Can Gelabert, Mallorca
2017
INCART 2017 — Guest Artist, Inca, Mallorca
OD Talamanca, Ibiza
Información Innecesaria Continua — Galería B12, Ibiza
Galería Es Polvorí (Balearia Foundation), Dalt Vila, Ibiza
2016
Galerie Europa, Berlin
Casa Portmany, Dalt Vila, Ibiza
2015
Cola Blanca Universal — Club Diario de Ibiza, Ibiza
Jesús de Miguel — Think Creative Hub, Ibiza
King Kong Crisis — Contemporary Pop Up, Düsseldorf
Earlier Exhibitions
2011 — Can Jeroni Exhibition Centre, Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Ibiza
2010–2011 — Club Roca Llisa, Ibiza
2007–2010 — Galería Miguel E. Young, Ibiza
2007–2009 — Home Video Festival (HOVI), Video Installations, Ibiza
2005 — Psycolabis, Hotel Pacha, Ibiza
2000 — Rockymarcianoseretira (Visual Project), Istituto Europeo di Design; 4th ARCALE International Contemporary Art Fair, REVE-LADA Art Space, Salamanca; 3D Visuals, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
1999 — Art Ibiza International Contemporary Art Fair; Selected for the San Marcos Award, Palacio de la Salina, Salamanca; 3rd ARCALE International Contemporary Art Fair, REVE-LADA Art Space, Salamanca
1998 — Selected Artist, VIII Tomás Luis de Victoria Painting Prize (Travelling Exhibition)
1997 — Selected Artist, VII Tomás Luis de Victoria Painting Prize (Travelling Exhibition)
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) — University of Salamanca, Spain
Anthropology of Art and Creative Processes — University of Salamanca, Spain
School of Arts and Crafts of Palencia — Specialization in Sculpture (with Luis Alonso)
CES School of Image and Sound, Madrid — 3D Animation
MUSEEC — Music Curation for Culture, Audiovisual and Marketing Industries
