Oscar Contreras Rojas

Oscar Contreras Rojas is a painter born in 1986 in Toluca, Mexico, who lives and works between Florence and Venice. He trained in painting at the Fine Arts Academy of Venice and later took an M.A. exchange in fine arts at Middlesex University in London. His landscape-based work moves between figuration and abstraction and has been shown in Italy, Germany and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the Premio Cairo 2019 and the Premio Combat 2020, and he is listed as an artist in the Atelier Austmarka residency program in Norway.