Ensimismamiento del iluminado. Noel Nicola (2011) Painting by Jesús Lara Sotelo

Jesús Lara Sotelo was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1972. He lives and works between Havana and Seville, Spain. He has exhibited his works in Spain, France, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, and Sweden. He has participated in numerous important art fairs, including: Art Marbella, Art3F, Paris, The Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm. Part of his works belong to personal collections and institutional and private collections. Lara Sotelo has written more than 50 poems, of which he has published 12.

He has studies in Mechanical Design and in art he is self-taught. He exhibited for the first time at the age of 17 with the Painting Prize in Havana and since then he has had more than 70 personal exhibitions.

His artistic work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video art, digital art among others. He is recognized for his work in landscape, portraiture, and abstraction.

For more than a decade the artist has been reluctant to sell his works and has preferred to treasure them in personal collections both in Cuba and in Spain and his most recent appearances at art fairs confirm his work in new series and access to his work.

• Nationality: CUBA
• Date of birth : 1972
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Cuban Artists