Entes

JOAN JIMENEZ ‘ENTES’

PERU / UNITED STATES

His artistic practice celebrates and amplifies Afro-descendant Latin American cultures and communities, while also creating spaces for dialogue around the structural roots of inequality and social vulnerability. Through painting, sculpture, printmaking, and graffiti, Joan works from and for the street, reaffirming it as a mental axis, a corporeal horizon, and a ground for imagining the future.

Entes has been an innovator in contemporizing a traditional fresco-removal technique called Strappo. The word comes from the Italian strappare, meaning to ”pull off,” which reflects the method’s defining action: carefully lifting away only the thin, uppermost layer of paint.

Joan has been actively involved in street-based artistic practice since 1998 and has participated in festivals and exhibitions in nearly 60 cities worldwide. He studied Fine Arts at the Corriente Alterna School of Fine Arts in Lima (2005–2011). He has held solo exhibitions in Lima (ICPNA, Circuito Mágico del Agua), Miami (Scope Festival), New York (Superchief Gallery), and Bogotá (MAC). He has also participated in group exhibitions in Miami (Museum of Graffiti, Miami Art Society, and Superchief Gallery), New York (Poster House), and Lima (Galería Luis Miró Quesada Garland). His work has also been presented at art fairs such as Arte Clandestina Miami (2024), Art Miami (2023), Scope Miami (2021 and 2022), Scope New York (2021), and Art Lima (2019).