Joao Quiroz

Joao Quiroz is a Mexican visual artist, born in 1980. He spent his early years in the state of Zacatecas, in 1987 his family moved to the city of Monterrey, Mexico; where he would study graphic design to work mostly on print media until 2015

Quiroz’s work is eclectic, outwardly impressionist and inwardly expressionist, exploring classical art and the avant-garde. In 1998 he had his first solo formal exhibition, thus beginning an intense career with more than 40 collective exhibitions and 15 individual exhibitions spread between Mexico and the United States.

In 2015 he travels to Europe and immerses himself into painting by soaking up the Renaissance art and by adopting the impasto technique that now defines his work. Upon his return; he relocates to Mexico City, this city being an enormous influence in his work and where he would experience an explosive and prolific artistic activity. In 2017 he returns to the north of the country and spends a season as part of the artistic scene in Zacatecas. In 2019 he settles in San Antonio Texas traveling throughout the Lone Star State and consolidated himself as an Urban Landscape Impressionist, who is currently developing his own technique and style in Minimalism.