Nehemias Escalante

Nehemias Escalante completed Artistic Studies at the Universidad Galileo in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. His work has been exhibited in France, El Salvador, Guatemala, and can be found in Private Collections in the United States, Canada, El Salvador and Guatemala.

France:

Sorbonne University, Paris, France (2024)
Cervantes Institute (Solo Exhibition), Paris, France (2021)
Guatemalan Embassy in Paris, France

El Salvador:

Roque Dalton Pinacoteca Museum, University of El Salvador (2023)
Roque Dalton Pinacoteca Exhibition, University of El Salvador (2023)

Guatemala:

Casa Roja, Guatemala City (2024)
Arte en Mayo, Fundación Rozas Botrán, Guatemala (2024)
Patronage of Santo Domingo, Guatemala City (2023)
Tiffany Galleries, Expomujer, Guatemala City (2023)
Ixchel Museum, Margarita Tejada, Guatemala City (2023)
AVIA, Guatemala City (2022)
Las Margaritas Business Center, Guatemala City Public Collections (2022)
Fundación Mano Amiga, Guatemala City (2021)
AKKINLIGHT, Guatemala City (2021)
Casa Para Las Artes, Antigua (2020)
“Colectivo Momentos” Guatemala City (2020, 2019)
Arturo Martínez Contest, Quetzaltenango (2019)
Totonicapán, Colectivo Chiquirichapa (2019)
International Outdoor Painting Festival, Alta Verapaz (2019)
National Palace (2018)
“Colectivo Chiquirichapa” Vessica, Quetzaltenango (2018)
8th Rafael Mora Miniatures Salon, Quetzaltenango (2018)
Maya Gallery (Colectivo Trazos Unidos), Guatemala City (2018)
Cultural Center La Esperanza, Guatemala City (2018)

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I paint, both in series and singularly, through a study of the colors that reflect the theme I want to represent; the tones that I use emerge from the theme itself. Colors are the essence and the strength of my work, and it is color that allows me to express and convey the depths of my inner self. I find inspiration in themes that formed my own childhood and for which I am able to express in a unique, conscious, and precise language through my work: identity, rural experience, and the history of my native Guatemala. In school, I entered a drawing contest and won, to my own surprise. Even as a child, I was motivated to explore a unique world of the mind, leaving reality behind through submerging myself in a unique world, perceiving the reality surrounding me through feeling and energy, experiencing that reality transformed into the texture and tactile thickness of color. With a notion to continue discovering and experimenting with new techniques in the freedom of exploration of color, I found myself an artist in the abstract movement, seeking to augment my art through both technique and content. My purpose as an artist is to make timeless stories known, from every corner of our lives and between generations. With each piece, I recognize both the uniqueness and the vestigial nature of my own stories and experiences, and I come to know more richly my spirituality. The ambiguity inherent in my work invites the viewer to enjoy the colors and textures and also to interpret the work within the context of their own story, becoming a co-author and creating their own concept, as the work itself becomes a telling of our stories.

- Nehemias Escalante