Miguel Sainz Ojeda

Miguel Sainz Ojeda is a Spanish artist born in 1993 in Madrid, Spain. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 2017. Over the past 10 years, Ojeda’s paintings have been exhibited and acquired across Europe and the United States.

 

Miguel Sainz Ojeda’s work explores the limits between the real and the apparent, creating invisible worlds of imagination and possibility that hybridise a vision of the innocent and the cruel in life — spaces where the mind transcends the image in an attempt to discern and organise the subconscious accumulation of everyday experiences. The artist’s work is a search for the spontaneous, the unfinished, a fresh and light painting that admits experimentation, where the dissolution of the limits between figuration and abstraction is the main aesthetic and conceptual dilemma. In his endeavour, there seems to be a need to create a phantasmagoric universe, a magical world that invites the viewer to sink his roots in primitive art, memory, and fantasy, without forgetting the playful aspect of plastic activity.

Miguel Sainz Ojeda in his studio, August 2024. Photo: Enrique Palacio.