Mariojosé ANGELES open the doors of his workshop

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Mariojosé ANGELES, (22.03.1965) was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1982, he starts studying architecture (University Autonomous of Santo Domingo) and after 3 years into the program, he decides to completely to studying painting. He held various collective and individual exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, starting in 1988. After his exhibition "Iconos Caribe" (1997) in the Archaeological Museum of Altos de Chavón, he was selected to participate in the Salon "Grands et Jeunes d'Aujoud'hui" in Paris. Since then, 1998 to 2007 he lived and worked in Brussels. In 200, he studied sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts Jean Jacques Belliard, Brussels Belgium. In 2003 presented "Homosapiens-Caribeen" mural painting in the permanent collection of  Notre de la Paix, University of Namur, Belgium. 2005- Parcours des Artistes Uccle, Brussels, Belgium. 2006- Projet “Integration” Installation - Photography - Painting, Salle Fabry, Brussels. In 2009 he presented the Installation Project “Santa Cucaracha” Enquiry on the AIDS vaccine in FIART- First International Art-fire at Palace of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 2010 Exhibition elit-tile 2010, Fourth International Ceramic Tile Triennial, Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic. In 2010 presented Solo Exhibition “Blue Dreams” Quinta Dominica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2011 “Flight Designs” Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2012- “ Las Marchantas” Palace of Fine Arts, Dominican Republic. 2012- ABSOLUT Blank, International Project. Dominican Republic. 2012- “UNIVESOS PARALELOS” Cultural Center Brasil-Dominican Republic.  2013-Exhibition of artists of permanent collection, Mirador Cultural Center, Dominican Republic. 2014- “De Mujeres” photographic exhibition, of Fotogrupo and F64, Palace of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2014- Second exhibition of the project “Universos Paralelos” De Bodden Art Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. “ Exhibition “July Collective” Laboratorio Evolutivo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2014- PHOTOimagen 2014, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  2014- Fifth World Ceramic Elit-Tile Triennial, Museum of Modern Art, Dominican Republic. 2015- "Window on the Caribbean" Photographic Exhibition in the Central Hall of the Vittoriano, Roma. 2015- “9 Contemporary Artists in the Evolutionary Laboratory” Laboraratorio Evolutivo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2015- First National Competition of Visual Arts INAPA, Palace of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2015- Third Drawing Festival-Arawak Foudation for Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2015- 28th Biennial of Visual Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2016- Group exhibition "Modernity, Light and Color, XXI Century Art", National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2016- 2nd exhibition "MADE HERE" La Vega House of Culture, Dominican Republic. 2016- "RECOLECTO" group exhibition, Dominican School of Artists (CODAP), Santo Domingo Dominican Republic. 

2017- "CARNAVAL" collective photography exhibition, Cultural Center of Spain, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

2017-Collective Exhibition "INFINITO" Juan Bosh Library, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

He works different disciplines: Painting - Photography - Art Digital Photography - Installations - Drawings - Graphic Design  - Scultpture.

He lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

From 2000 to 2004, he was Cultural attaché of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in the Kingdom of Belgium, the Netherlands Kingdom and European Union.