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Luis Simó (b. 1996, Vielha) is a Spanish painter based in Valencia. Working in painting, Simó develops a practice that engages with the visual systems of contemporary culture, from mass communication codes and advertising imagery to the compressed symbols through which collective meaning is produced and circulated.
His canvases are marked by chromatic intensity and compositional precision, proposing a sustained reflection on how images operate within society and shape human behaviour. Simó has exhibited internationally at major art fairs and galleries, including Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Paris, London, Miami and more. He holds a Fine Arts degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Simó's work has travelled worldwide, from fairs and galleries across five continents to private collections from Los Angeles to Sydney. Hover a city to see where.
2025 · Dangdai Art Fair, Beijing, China (Winners Gallery)
2024 · West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China (Winners Gallery)
2025 · Urban Flora, Winland, Hangzhou, China (Winners Gallery)
2025 · Feels Good Man, BMag Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2025 · Venetian Convention Hall, Las Vegas, USA
2024 · BMag Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024 · Midtown Art Gallery, Nashville, USA
2023 · L’Avant Gallerie, Paris, France
2023 · Old Brompton Gallery, London, UK
2023 · Miami Convention Center, Miami, USA
2022 · DYOR, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2022 · BMag Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 · Wynwood Gallery, Miami, USA
2022 · Tri-Beca Gallery, New York, USA
2020 · VI Bienal de Pintura Cromática, Municipal Museum of Ourense, Spain
2019 · IV Bienal de València Ciutat Vella Oberta, CCCC Valencia, Spain
2019 · XXIII Bienal Internacional Arte no Morrazo, Ourense, Spain
2018 · V Bienal de Pintura Cromática, Municipal Museum of Ourense, Spain
2021 · XXIV Premio Nacional de Pintura Fundación Mainel, Valencia · First Prize
2020 · XXIII Premio Nacional de Pintura Fundación Mainel, Valencia · Honorable Mention
2014–2019 · Fine Arts Degree, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
I paint from what I live: a conversation I overhear on the street, a weird dream, a film that stirs something up, a meme that makes me laugh, a trip that gets under my skin, a morning spent outdoors moving and feeling. My work is autobiographical, but there's no grand statement behind it, just the urge to have a good time and to make sure whoever's looking at the painting does too. There's enough correctness and perfectionism in the world already; I'm not bringing that into the studio.
I work with oil, acrylic, spray, whatever the painting asks for, I don't stick to one technique if another tells the story better. At first glance the work can look clean, flat backgrounds, color that hums, but get close and it's full of imperfections, full of the hand behind it all. That palette that seems so charged comes from a simple place: I spend hours in front of screens, like everyone, and that chromatic scale has seeped into the way I see the natural world. I try to be irreverent, direct, and to enjoy painting, I think it shows.
Original works, each one of a kind, become available throughout the year. For available works, commissions, exhibitions and press, leave a note, every enquiry is answered personally.