Jamir Guiza

Jamir Guiza is a Colombian visual artist and educator whose career brings together painting, teaching, and cultural leadership. He has served as Visual Arts Coordinator at the University of Tolima’s Cultural Center, where he also taught painting and drawing. His work explores emotion and perception through gestural abstraction, expressive color, and layered textures.

Selected exhibitions include Noche de Galería at the Colombian Consulate in Miami (2025); Esquizofrenia at the University of Tolima’s Darío Jiménez Exhibition Hall (2013); Hispanic Heritage at Elite Fine Art Galleries in Miami (2013); and The Shape of Feeling: Abstraction as Material, System, and Sensation at Mundo Arte Gallery, North Miami Beach (2026).

I approach each piece without a predetermined destination, allowing the medium to dictate the initial direction. My process is deeply tactile and layered; I build up surfaces and then strip them back, creating a history within the work that mirrors the complexities of human memory. I am fascinated by the concept of “controlled spontaneity”—the moment where a frantic gesture finds its place within a balanced composition.