Mauro Zamora

Visual Arts
2008 Grantee

Born 1974
Mauro Zamora is compelled to make paintings of landscapes although he is not always interested in the landscape itself. Zamora’s images derive from nature, architecture, and print media. He states that his work is rooted in the effects of “care/neglect, entropy/growth, and construction/destruction,” believing that architecture cannot exist without nature and nature cannot exist without architecture. He is most interested in understanding how we are all tied to the land and how its use ebbs and flows throughout our lives.

Mauro received his M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia in 2004, and a Certificate in Painting from the Academy in 1999. Recent solo exhibits include Solo Series at the Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pa.; Border Crossing at Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia; Converge at Vox Populi, Philadelphia; and Fleisher Challenge, at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, and Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York City, to name a few.

For more information about this artist:
www.maurozamora.com