Dennis Miranda Zamorano Mexico, b. 1993

Dennis Miranda Zamorano (b. 1993, Mexico City) is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Mexico City.

The themes, subjects, and compositional logic of his practice grow from El Tianguis, the open-air market tradition his family has taken part in for generations. For Zamorano, the market’s dynamism and ephemerality—its chance encounters, disputes, and the circulating economies of objects, aesthetics, and desires—are analogous to the act of constructing a painting.

Like the marketplace, the canvas is a site of negotiation among infinite choices. Within this arena of burgeoning impulses and amalgamated forms, his work moves fluidly between representation and image, figuration and abstraction, language and meaning. His process is intensely physical: he accumulates dozens of layers of paint—house paint, oil, acrylic, and watercolor—then excavates pictorial elements through scratching, sanding, chiseling, scoring, power washing, chemical dissolution, and exposure to natural outdoor elements, often leaving multiple canvases outside while working across them simultaneously. Oneiric, tactile, and intensely colorful, the resulting paintings oscillate between the thing-in-itself (an encounter, object, or memory) and its representation, reflecting on the fragmented, fragile nature of the human condition.

Zamorano’s first institutional solo exhibition opens at Château La Coste (Aix-en-Provence, France) in October 2025, coinciding with Art Basel Paris week. Selected exhibitions include: ‘Abstraction (Re)creation - 20 Under 40’, X Museum (Beijing, CN, 2024, group; traveled from Consortium Museum, FR); ‘Chilangxs’, Marguo (Paris, FR, 2025, group); ‘Reunion’, Aye Project Space (Hong Kong, 2025, group); ‘Abstraction (Re)creation - 20 Under 40’, Consortium Museum (Dijon, FR, 2024, group); ‘Falling Upwards’, Galerie Marguo (Paris, FR, 2023, solo); ‘Ongoing Portraits, Chapter I’, Galería Furiosa (Mexico City, MX, 2021, solo) and ‘Ongoing Portraits, Chapter II’, IMAGINE GALLERY (San Miguel de Allende, MX, 2021, solo); ‘Los Relatos del Rostro’, AppArt (Paris, 2018, solo); ‘LANDSCAPE’, The Tiny Box Project (San Miguel de Allende, MX, 2017, solo); ‘For Here or to Go’, WNDO Space (Los Angeles, CA, 2017, solo); ‘El Límite de la Risa’, IMAGINE GALLERY (San Miguel de Allende, MX, 2016, solo); and ‘My American Experience’, WNDO Space (Los Angeles, CA, 2014, solo).

His work is held in collections across the United States, Europe, and Asia, including Cc Art Foundation, Shanghai, and trustees of major institutions like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.