BIO

MUSEUMS

MOLAA Museum, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama 

Museum of National Identity, Tegugigalpa

The Coca-cola Museum, Atlanta

BIENNALE

2008 VI Centro American Biennale  (BAVIC), Museum of National Identity, Honduras

AWARDS

Coca Cola LATAM art prize - MAC Museum, Panama

Honorable mention BAVIC Biennale - MNI Museum, Honduras

Selection in best LATAM artists 2009 - MOLAA Museum, LA

Silver Prize, Caribe Film Festival

Selected as most influential Panama Artist of the decade 2010

COLLECTIONS 

Sandor Collection, USA

Fernandez Pirla Collection, Central America

Ramiro Ortiz Collection, Mexico

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Tag Gallery, Lugano (CH)

2016 Minimal Mola, Makoto Panama

2015 Temples, Galeria Jeronimo, Panama 

2015 Molas, Macro Fest

2014 The Eva Project, Le Meridien Panama

2012 RealArt, The Americas Collection, Miami 

2011 Pacha Mama, Espacio Panamá, Panama

2011 Dreams Come True, Arteconsult, Panama

2010 Rolex Masters, Banque BNP, Monaco (FR)

2010 Seasonal Sale, Galería Arteconsult, Panama

2009 Brands, Galerie Gam, MOnaco (fr)

2009 Brands, Victoria Design, Porto Cervo, Italy 

2007 Renacimiento, Casa Góngora, Panama

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2017  Summer Show, Carre dore gallery, Monaco (fr)

2016  The Eva Project, LA Womans Center, Los Angeles

2012 Pinta, New York

2011 Pinta, London

2011  Fotoseptiembre, MAC Museum, Panama 

2011  Bab-Alei, Weil Art, Panamá 

2011  00-10, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama

2010 Fada Art Show, Los angeles

2009  Auction '09, MOLAA Museum, Los Angeles

2009  Foto Septiembre, Galería Arteconsult, Panamá 

2009  Body of Works, The Americas Collection, Miami

2009  Precious Jewels, The Americas Collection, Miami

2008  Art Basel, Miami, The Americas Collection, Miami

2008  Eclectic Photography, The Americas Collection, Miami

2008  Plasma Art with LG, Art de Griss Gallery, Panama

2007  Mestizaje, Maison de l’Art Gallery, Panamá

2007  Reebok Freestyle, Galería Diablo Rosso, Panama

2006  Choice of the year, Galería Arteconsult, Panama

2006  Showcase of Latin America, The Americas Collection Gallery, Miami 

2006  Classic, Coca-Cola Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

2006  Coca-Cola Prize, MAC Museum, Panama

2003 Web Digital Art show, Graphola digital art community

1998 Arte Fiera, Venturina, Italy

1996 Arte Fiera, Venturina, Italy

One, Nobody, 100.000

JJ was born in Genoa, Italy, from Swiss father and Panamanian mother.

After studying Architecture and design in the faculty of Genoa, he moves to Milan, starting a career in film and advertising production.

 

This parallel film experience influences fundamentally his Art, making Photography and Post-Production the fundamental media of his work: he develops his own original technique that he baptizes “Photopaint”.

Photopaint consists in sampling many photos in the computer and integrate them in intricate compositions that exceed the hundred layers, giving as ultimate result the detailed photography of his

imagination.

Some have compared it with DaVinci’s velature technique applied to the digital movement.

Trough photography and computer he explores and deconstructs reality for than playing at re-assembling It in new configurations, exploring its limits and possibilities.

 

JJR considers Art as a tool to explore the world in all its facets. Avid of experience, he believes in an extraordinary life to produce extraordinary work, therefore dedicating himself to travel, exploration, and interacting with all sorts of cultures and practices.

Since a decade now he has been living the digital nomad lifestyle.

For many years, JJ and his camera, come in close contact with different cultures and landscapes all over the world, in the pursuit of compiling the scattered pieces of the riddle that holds the secrets of human nature.

After 20 years of carreer as digital artist, he's now an avid advocate for the NFT cryptoart movement, and recently taking part in it trough platforms like Foundation and Rarible.

 

His work is divided in “collections”, each as the end result that crystallizes the stages of his global journey.