José Eduardo Barajas

José Eduardo Barajas (b. 1990, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. Barajas approaches painting and drawing as a discipline to monitor luminous atmospheres, color patterns, and emotional climates. Referencing various pictorial traditions, popular motifs, and technical processes, he reconstructs fragments of collective memory and personal memories. His work is based on contrasts such as, abstraction and figuration, panoramic views and close-ups, dynamism and stillness. He is a graduate of the bachelor’s degree program at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking “La Esmeralda’’ in Mexico City, MX. He has exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico and abroad, some of his recent exhibitions include: El Fin de lo Maravilloso, Cyberpop en México; Museo del Chopo, CDMX, MX; Saliva at PEANA, CDMX, MX; Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit at Echo Cologne & Lodos in Cologne, DE; Mnemósine at Proyectos Multipropósito, CDMX, MX; Equator at Estrella Gallery in New York, US; Spookie butt at Terén CED in Brno, CZ; ¿Por dónde sale el sol? at Jardín de casa Barragán, CDMX, MX; Campamento para jóvenes Naturalistas at Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, MX; and Ajuscos_Expo at Charim Galerie in Vienna, AT. ...

Since its opening in 2017, PEANA has served as a platform for multidisciplinary production and research of emerging Mexican contemporary art, with a strong emphasis on experimental practices. A recurring characteristic of the artists they support is the continuous evolution of the artistic lineage of conceptual rigorously expressions that are grounded in the plasticity of the artwork’s materiality. Through its off-site and group exhibitions PEANA is interested in the curatorial practice as cultural synthesis that bridges historicized art practices to emerging ones from Mexico and abroad. ...