Jaime Gili

Jaime Gili (Caracas, 1972) studied at Prodiseño in Caracas where he received his foundation equivalent in 1990. Gili has also received a BA from Facultad de Bellas Artes at the Universitat de Barcelona; a MA at the Royal College of Art, London and a PhD in Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona. Throughout his career, Jaime Gili has developed the universal abstract language of the mid-20th Century into contemporary painting. More specifically, his work has been contextualized as a revision of Latin American abstraction, especially the Venezuelan optical and kinetic work of artists such as Carlos Cruz-Diez and Alejandro Otero, with an input from popular art and London's energy.

 Gili has had many solo shows such as Small Fonts, Area, Barcelona (1995); CUTOUTS, Hockney Gallery, London (1997); Go Faster Stripes and Other Modernist Myths, Gallery Westland Place, London (2000); Screen, the Mosaic building, Miami (2005); Jaime Gili makes things triangular at Riflemaker, Riflemaker, London (2006); Coda, Oficina #1, Caracas (2008); Bill at Pittier, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Zurich (2009); Jaime Gili Afuera, Periférico Caracas (2010) and Guarimba, Cecilia Brunson Projects, London (2017). Gili has also been featured in group shows including the Biennal d’Art Contemporani Català, Barcelona (2000); Is It Any Wonder, Galeria Palma XII, Barcelona (2001); The Bold & the Beautiful: New Art from London, traveling show in London, Melbourne and Hobart (2003); Budget Bureau, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève (2005); Desconfía, Oficina #1, Caracas (2006); Vila Jelmini: The Complex of Respect, Kunsthalle Bern (2006); Jump Cuts, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (2007), and Demons, Yams and Tales, James Cohan Gallery, New York (2010); among others. Gili lives and works in London.

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