Installation view, Bleeding Boundaries, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
José Eduardo Barajas
José Eduardo Barajas (b. 1990, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City.
Barajas approaches painting and drawing as a discipline to monitor luminous atmospheres, color patterns, and emotional climates. Referencing various pictorial traditions, popular motifs, and technical processes, he reconstructs fragments of collective memory and personal memories. This work is based on contrasts, such as abstraction and figuration, panoramic views and close-ups, dynamism, and stillness. He is a graduate of the Bachelor’s degree program at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City, MX. He has exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico and abroad, some of his recent exhibitions include: Saliva at PEANA, Mexico City, Mx; Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit at Echo Cologne & Lodos in Cologne, DE; Mnemósine at Proyectos Multipropósito, Mexico City, MX; Equator at Estrella Gallery in New York, US; Spookie butt at Terén CED in Brno, CZCH; ¿Por dónde sale el sol? at Jardín de casa Barragán, Mexico City, MX; Campamento para jóvenes Naturalistas at Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, MX; and Ajuscos_Expo at Charim Galerie in Vienna, AUT.
José Eduardo Barajas walking through his exhibition Bleeding Boundaries, at Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City.
Installation view, Bleeding Boundaries, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Bleeding Boundaries, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Bleeding Boundaries, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Bleeding Boundaries, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Proliferación 1, 2025, watercolor, acrylic, ink and oil on canvas, 80 x 170 cm, 31 1/2 x 66 7/8 in
Installation view, Bleeding Boundaries, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Bleeding Boundaries, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Educación pública 3 (nopales), 2026, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, 47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in
Educación pública 1 (cuarto dimensión), 2026, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 120 cm, 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
untitled, 2026, acrilyc on canvas, 150 x 120 cm, 59 x 47 1/4 in
Installation view, From dreams you wake up, 2024, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City
José Eduardo Barajas, Corruption, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, 78 3/4 x 118 1/8 in
Installation view, From dreams you wake up, 2024, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City
Installation view Mnemósine, Proyectos Multipropósito. Photo courtesy of Proyectos Multipropósito
Untitled, Políptico 36, 2023 acrylic applied with an airbrush onto plaster and fibreglass, 420 x 360cm
Installation view Proyectos Multipropósito. Photo by Javier Silva
Installation view TIERRA TIERRA, 2020. Photo courtesy of NeoTortilleria
Installation view TIERRA TIERRA, 2020. Photo courtesy of NeoTortilleria
Installation view ¿Por dónde sale El sol?, 2020. Photo courtesy of Relaciones Públicas Art