RESUME

RAFAEL ESPITIA

Was born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1967.

Lives and Works in Miami (US) and Cartagena (COL)

DIGITAL ART

Concept Artist: Luna Productions Colombia, film project, concept art scenes "Glance". 2012

Digital Painter TV Production: TELEMUNDO Studios Miami LLC, Artist commissioned to make digital paintings for "Relaciones Peligrosas" scenery production. 2012

Concept Artist: Anastasia Film Studios, independent film project, Concept Art “Harandash Future”. 2011

Digital Painter: Las Américas Hotel for Project Aqua and Caribbean, realization of 50 digital paintings to decorate 530 rooms. 2011

Digital Painter TV Production: RCN Channel, Colombia, Project "Chepe Fortuna" tv series, artist commissioned to make the digital painting to be part of scenery. 2010

Film Props Artistic Painter: Film "Love in the Time of Cholera". Directed by Mike Newel, Props Artistic painter assistant. 2006

               

FINE ART PAINTINGS

Fine Arts Artist: Resident Artist at:

ONCE Arts Gallery, Wynwood Arts District, USA.

Cristina Chacon Gallery, Coconut Grove, USA.

Area 23 Art Gallery, Wynwood Arts District, USA.

Avant Gallery, Miami Beach, USA.

Luz Botero Fine Arts, Panamá City, Panamá.

Ramírez Sánchez Galería, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Muralist: Hotel Hampton Inn Brickell Mural, Miami, USA. 2011

Muralist: Las Americas Convention Center Mural, Cartagena, Col 2006

Dome: Los Reyes Building, Cartagena, Col. 2005

Tile Mosaic: Los Reyes Building, Cartagena, Col 2004

Muralist: Hotel Capilla del Mar Mural, Cartagena, Col. 1998

Muralist: Hotel Las Americas Mural, Cartagena, Col. 1993

INTERIOR DESIGN

Design Director: Founder and owner of the company "Diseño Interior" Design Center, Cartagena, Colombia. 1995-2007

Production Director and Design Director: Espitia Art, Furnitures and Mouldings Manufacture, Creator of the brands "Espitia Art", "Espitia Furniture", and "Espitia Mouldings".  1996-2007

ART GALLERY

Founder and Curator: Espitia Galeria Cartagena and Espitia Galeria Bogota, Colombia. 2007-2010

Curator and Owner:  Area 23 Art Gallery, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, USA. 2010-2011

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Avant Gallery, Miami Beach, Jun, USA. 

Once Arts Gallery, Wynwood, May, Miami, USA.
Vivid Arts "Earth Vortices", Castello Estense. May, Ferrara, Italy.

Once Arts Gallery, Wynwood, April, Miami, USA.

ART NAPLES 2012 Contemporary Art Fair, Avant Gallery, Naples, USA.

Once Arts Gallery, Wynwood Arts District, March, Miami, USA.

ARTEAMERICAS 2012, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, USA .

2012 Cristina Chacon Gallery, Brickell, Estados Unidos (S).

Museum CASA GRAU 2011, "A 23 Artist tribute to Maestro Enrique Grau" Bogotá, Colombia.

MOSA HOUSE, "Amalgamate Intentions", Wynwood, Miami, USA.

Cristina Chacon Gallery 2011, "Gathering", Miami, USA.

ART WALK Area 23 Art Gallery 2011, Wynwood, Miami, USA.

Cristina Chacon Gallery, "AQUA", Miami, USA.

Key Biscayne Yacht Club Miami, USA.

"Entelequia", Area 23 Art Gallery, Wynwood Miami, USA.

"TRANSMUTATION", Area 23 Art Gallery, Miami, USA.

Area 23 Art Gallery 2011, "Present", Wynwood, Arts District, Miami, USA.

ART BASEL MIAMI 2010, Area 23 Art Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, USA.

Paul Cabezas Gallery's Group Show, Casa San Agustín Cartagena, Colombia.

Area 23 Art Gallery, "RED", Wynwood, Miami, USA.

Cristina Chacon Gallery, "THIS IS COLOMBIA", Coconut Grove, USA.

Area 23 Art Gallery, "EROS & THANATOS", Wynwood, Miami, USA.

Area 23 Art Gallery, "BEGINNING", Wynwood, Miami, USA.

Cristina Chacon Gallery 2010, "BLENDED", Miami, USA.

JMC Gallery, "Mystical Figures", New York, USA.

Clemente Soto Vélez Gallery, "Figurative Constructions", New York, USA.

Area 23 Art Gallery, "20x20", Miami, USA.

Cristina Chacon Gallery, "ILLUMINATA", Miami, USA.

Flamingo Road Gallery, "ANTITESIS", Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Espitia Galería, "Virtuosos del Color y la Luz", Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Galería Espitia, "WOMEN 2009", Bogotá D.C., Colombia (S).

Casa San Agustín, "WOMEN", Cartagena, Colombia.

Galería Velázquez, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (S).

Galería Espitia, "MOMENTS 2008", Cartagena, Colombia (S).

Espitia Galería, "LA COLECTIVA", Cartagena, Colombia.

D'art Gallerie, Naples, USA.

Astoria Fine Art, Miami, USA.

Gallerie d'Art, Bogotá, Colombia.

Centro Bemol, Madrid Spain.

Centro Cultural Nicolás Salmerón, Madrid, Spain.

Centro Cultural Casa del Reloj, Madrid, Spain.

Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain.

Centro Cultural Antonio Machado, Madrid, Spain.

Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas, Madrid, Spain.

"Diez Décadas del Arte en Cartagena", Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.

"Acuarelista de la Costa", Galería Skandia, Cartagena, Colombia.

Galería Novarreta, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

La Francia Centro de Arte, Medellín, Colombia.

Galería Lara, Barraquilla, Colombia.

Casa de la Cultura, "40 Años Telecom", Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Galería Quintero, Barranquilla, Colombia (S).

Centro de Convenciones, Cartagena, Colombia.

Galería Banco Ganadero, Cartagena, Colombia.

The Arts Student's League of New York, USA.

Galería Skandia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

"Acuarelistas Costeños", Galería Skandia, Cartagena, Colombia.

Arte 85 Cartagena de Indias", Colombia.

Galería Lara, Barranquilla, Colombia.

Galería Cámara de Comercio, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Asociación Colombiana de Artistas de Artes Plásticas, Centro de convenciones, Cartagena, Colombia.

"Acuarelistas Cartageneros", Galería Skandia, Cartagena, Colombia.

Artistas Colombianos en la colección "UNICEF", Galería Pluma, Bogotá D.C. Colombia.

Inauguración Salón de Arte de la Gobernación de Bolívar, Cartagena, Colombia (S).

"Homenaje a Cartagena", Galería El Callejón, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

"Cartagena 450 Años", Galería San Lucas, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Galería Skandia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia (S).

"450 Años de Cartagena", Galería Skandia, Cartagena, Colombia.

II Salón Nacional de la Acuarela, Medellín, Colombia.

Galería Arte Autopista Medellín, Colombia (S).

"Acuarelista de la Costa", Galería Skandia, Bogotá, Colombia.

Galería Skandia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia (S).

Salón Nacional de la Acuarela, Medellín, Colombia.

Galería Skandia, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (S).

I Salón de Arte Nuevo, Pierre Daguet, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Casa del Marqués del Premio Real, Cartagena, Colombia (S).

1980 Colegio Salesianos San Pedro Claver, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

(S): Solo Show

AWARDS & GRANTS

2012 ArtTour International Magazine, cover magazine. "Colombian Master Painter RAFAEL ESPITIA, A World of Colors", Italy.

2012 Artwork "Colombia" commissioned by the Colombian Navy to be exhibited on the First Navy ship built entirely in Colombia: ARC "20 de Julio". Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

2012 Commissioned by TELEMUNDO Studios Miami LLC to make his artwork part of "Relaciones Peligrosas" tv serie scenery.

2011 Museum CASA GRAU, "A 23 Artist tribute to Maestro Enrique Grau" Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

2011 Calendario Testimonio Artístico Colombiano.

2011  Hampton Inn Hotel mural, Brickell, Miami, USA.

2010 First Colombian artist commissioned by RCN to make his artwork part of "Chepe Fortuna" tv serie scenery.

2009 DON BOSCO Award for his artistic trajectory, Colegio Salesiano 50 Años, Cartagena, Colombia.

2006 Third Award winner, Primer Salón Marginal de Artistas, SEMANA Magazine, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

2005 Convention Center mural,  Las Américas, Cartagena, Colombia.

Event hall's mosaic, Los Reyes Building, Cartagena, Colombia.

"El Olimpo" Dome, Private collection, Cartagena, Colombia.

Mural of the "Capilla del Mar" Hotel, Cartagena, Colombia.

1983 "Las Américas Global Resort" Hotel main Mural, Cartagena, Colombia.

Exaltation  "Outstanding Young Person in Cartagena" by Cámara Junior, Cartagena, Colombia.

8th International Painting Award, Eugenio Hermoso Badajoz, Spain.

1989 Third Award on First Contest of speed painting, Buen Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain.

1989 Third Art Award, Asturian Centre of Madrid,  III Week of America, Asturias Prince Hall, Madrid, Spain.

1988 Honorific Degree on Plastic Arts,  Bellas Artes Institute, Cartagena, Colombia.

1984 First Place Award, IV Watercolor National Hall,  Medellín, Colombia.

1982 Sellected artwork for the publication of UNICEF greeting card, New York, USA.

Special Guest on TV Show "Póngase a pensar ", by José Fernández Gómez.

1982 Jury on the Galeria Skandia's Children Contest with the celebrities Pacheco and Gloria Valencia.

1981 Mention of honor, First Watercolor National Hall, Medellín, Colombia.

EDUCATION

At the age of twelve, is oriented by Master Julio Carlos Angulo.

Studies Engraving at Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia.

Watercolor, Painting, Composition and Color at The Art Student's League of New York, USA.

History of Latinoamerican Art and Appreciation of Art at National University, Bogotá, Colombia.

Photography at National University, Bogotá, Colombia.

History of Art, Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

Digital: Photoshop CS6, Corel Draw, 3d Max, Corel Painter XI,  Premiere Pro CS5,

After effects CS5.