Jorge Caceres (b. 1978, Lima, Peru) is an artist based in Washington, D.C. Growing up surrounded by the boldly patterned pottery, textile, and architecture of ancient Peruvian cultures, Caceres developed a sensibility for abstraction. He studied architecture at Ricardo Palma, one of Lima's most renowned universities, and moved to the United States in the early 2000s to pursue a career in art.
Since 2019, Caceres has been working as a full-time artist, allowing him to focus on a new series of paintings that explore the connection between the human body and nature through abstracted lines. Variously read as sprawling limbs or variegated colors cutting through an ancient mountainside, his earth-toned colors contrast sharply against the background, often rendered in an azure hue suggestive of the sky.
His background in design gives him a keen eye for color and composition, and his interest in exploring human nature through his work was born out of the pandemic. Caceres views his paintings as snapshots from a larger story; with the lines frozen in time, one can imagine them continuing to bend and curve beyond the frame of the painting. Landscape and portrait blend together as the lines move organically, pushing and pulling with each other - just as the natural world and our own bodies record the traumas of the past. Conjuring thoughts like these, Caceres’s work serves as a way for him to meditate on his own personal history, and it provides an outlet for viewers to do the same.
Caceres’s work is owned by private collectors in Washington, D.C. and around the country. Recently, his work has been acquired by the Microsoft Art Collection. He has shown work at Watergate Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Chela Mitchell Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Strathmore Mansion, Rockville, M.D.
Exhibitions:
Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC.(group show) 2009
Watergate Gallery, '‘Deep in my Heart” exhibition Washington DC (solo show) 2018
Holly Hunt Showroom, Washington DC (solo show) 2018
Kimpton Carlyle Hotel, Washington DC (group show)
2019.
La Cosecha, Washington DC (solo show)
2020
Chela Mitchell Gallery, Exhibition “I ENVY THE WIND” (group show) . 2021
ART NIGHT - Washington Project for the Arts/Hickok Cole (group show) 2022.
Here We Show Again- Strathmore Mansion (group show) 2023
Articles:
“5 Washington DC- based artists you should know”- Life is Suite, by Kimpton Hotels, 2019.
EastCityArt 2021 - Exhibitions Chela Mitchell Gallery.