Emiliano Mondragón (b. 1996, Mexico City, Mexico) is a contemporary painter based in Hamburg, Germany.
He works primarily in mixed-medium painting centered on oil, complemented by acrylic and spray paint, charcoal, pastels, and collage on raw-colored canvas. Mondragón is best known for a non-realistic figurative language in which body fragments —sourced from online media, printed magazines, and Old Master paintings— are recombined to form new hybrid characters assembled from different limbs, torsos, and heads.
His works are distinguished by rich physical and visual textures, a confident chromatic sensibility, and backgrounds composed of solid color fields and subtle gradients that create narrow spatial environments.
Emiliano Mondragón creates fictional stories to reflect on the human condition of his time. With his work, he addresses problems like the pressure to remain constantly visible on social media, the desire to escape his own body, and the constant feeling of burnout produced by a hyperconnected, high-performance world.
Drawing on elements of popular culture like angels, mermaids, the Xenomorph, Jim Morrison; and characters from different mythologies like Tlaltecuhtli, Quetzalcoátl, Nahual shamans, Jörmungandr, the figures he paints are constructed from different body fragments. Allowing him to assemble new characters from combined limbs, torsos, and heads, to inhabit his own vision of the End of Times.
His visual language is grounded in a non-realistic figuration, a combination of physical and visual textures, a muted color palette. Together, these elements shape the claustrophobic spaces in which the stories he creates take place.
Emiliano Mondragón has exhibited at ICAT in Hamburg, Germany; the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany; the Museum of Geology in Mexico City; Laboral in Mexico City; and Moloch in Mexico City, Mexico. His works are held in private collections in Mexico, the United States, Germany, and Spain. He has also participated as a moderator in the round table Art From the Heart of Coyoacan, Hidden Talents: The Art of Our Neighborhood at EM Art Gallery in Mexico City.
Emiliano Mondragón
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Emiliano Mondragón (b. 1996, Mexico City, Mexico) is a contemporary painter based in Hamburg, Germany.
He works primarily in mixed-medium painting centered on oil, complemented by acrylic and spray paint, charcoal, pastels, and collage on raw-colored canvas. Mondragón is best known for a non-realistic figurative language in which body fragments —sourced from online media, printed magazines, and Old Master paintings— are recombined to form new hybrid characters assembled from different limbs, torsos, and heads.
His works are distinguished by rich physical and visual textures, a confident chromatic sensibility, and backgrounds composed of solid color fields and subtle gradients that create narrow spatial environments.
Emiliano Mondragón creates fictional stories to reflect on the human condition of his time. With his work, he addresses problems like the pressure to remain constantly visible on social media, the desire to escape his own body, and the constant feeling of burnout produced by a hyperconnected, high-performance world.
Emiliano Mondragón has exhibited at ICAT in Hamburg, Germany; the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany; the Museum of Geology in Mexico City; Laboral in Mexico City; and Moloch in Mexico City, Mexico. His works are held in private collections in Mexico, the United States, Germany, and Spain. He has also participated as a moderator in the round table Art From the Heart of Coyoacan, Hidden Talents: The Art of Our Neighborhood at EM Art Gallery in Mexico City.
Emiliano Mondragón
Painter
Discover more
Interested in collaborating with Emiliano?
Drawing on elements of popular culture like angels, mermaids, the Xenomorph, Jim Morrison; and characters from different mythologies like Tlaltecuhtli, Quetzalcoátl, Nahual shamans, Jörmungandr, the figures he paints are constructed from different body fragments. Allowing him to assemble new characters from combined limbs, torsos, and heads, to inhabit his own vision of the End of Times.
His visual language is grounded in a non-realistic figuration, a combination of physical and visual textures, a muted color palette. Together, these elements shape the claustrophobic spaces in which the stories he creates take place.