BIO / STATEMENT:
Born in 1987 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, José Zendejas moves between painting and architecture, between silence and structure, memory and form.
He studied Architecture at the Universidad del Valle de México, but painting—begun at sixteen—became his deeper voice. Guided by emotion, intuition, and lyrical impulse, his work evokes what cannot be spoken.
After years designing spaces with his family’s firm, he turned inward, giving shape to the intangible.
His work has been shown in MAC SLP-Contemporary Museum of Art-SLP ,Caja Real Museum-UASLP, Leonora Carrignton Museum-SLP ,Fransisco Cossio Museum , Municipal Palace-SLP, Cultural Diffusion-SLP ,CC200-SLP , collective shows in Rome and Vienna.
Now based in Rome, he pursues a Master’s in Painting at RUFA.
His abstract works are like mirrors of the inner world—suspended landscapes of thought and feeling. They do not explain; they suggest. They invite the viewer to wander, to remember, and to recognize something quietly familiar.
Artist Statement:
My painting emerges from what cannot be seen—from what floats between an unspoken word and a barely recalled feeling. I work with the intangible, with what has no defined shape but lives in the body and memory. I do not aim to represent, but to reveal—to reveal what we all feel but may not fully understand.
I believe the human mind is an echo of the world: everything around us filters in and transforms, becoming inner substance. Through abstraction, I try to give form to this invisible material. My works are suspended spaces where emotion takes shape without imposition, where painting flows as thought does: fragmented, pulsing, sometimes clear, sometimes like fog.
My process follows no straight path. It might begin with a word, a sentence, a fleeting image, or a mood. What drives me is the urge to translate the invisible into matter, to make the interior visible. My paintings offer no answers—they offer mirrors. They invite the viewer to step into their own mind, and to recognize themselves within a nebula of sensations that may have always been there, waiting to be seen.
Statement:
he human essence is a raw nebula—chaotic, luminous, and ungraspable. It is a constellation of memories, desires, wounds, ecstasies. We ache, we tremble, we ignite, sometimes without a single touch—only the alchemy of mind and heart converging in secret.
What makes us human is not logic, but that spark—irrational, fleeting, immense. No two days are the same, because we are reborn in fragments every dawn.
This volatile, sacred substance—so delicate, yet able to scar or sanctify us for life—is what I seek to conjure in paint. My work is not an answer, but a mirror; not a portrait, but a pulse. I embrace abstraction as a language of intuition, where meaning is not imposed but discovered.
Each piece is an invitation to remember: to return, even briefly, to that electric moment where we feel—truly feel—ourselves alive. If, for an instant, the viewer sees their own soul flicker within the canvas, then the work has spoken. Then, it has lived.
Curriculum:
NAME:
JOSE ZENDEJAS FOYO
BIRTH:
22 DE JULIO DE 1987
SAN LUIS POTOSI , SLP.
DEGREES:
BACHELOR IN ARCHITECTURE AT UVM CAMPUS SLP
ACTUAL RESIDENCE:
ROMA , ITALY.
CURRENTLY STUDYING A MASTER IN PAINTING AT RUFA.
E-mail:
jzfzendejas@icloud.com
jose.zendejas@unirufa.it
tel:(WHATS APP)
+52 44 41 95 16 81
ADRESS:
VIA PLAUTO
SITES:
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1lX_8BYeg
INSTAGRAM: @jzf_art
COLLECTIVE SHOWS:
2025 , JUNE 5 - 28 . `` MIMESIS ´´ , GALLERY STEINER , VIENNA , AUSTRIA , VIA KURRENTGASSE 4 .
COMMISSIONED BY : GALLERY STEINER
2025 , MARCH 23 . ``SOGNI PERDUTI ´´ , IN MEMORY OF DAVID LYNCH , (MUSIC , ART AND POETRY) 1 OPERA , ONIRICO 1, 1.50 X 1.50 MTS , LARGO VENUE , VIA BORDO 2 , ROMA.
COMMISSIONED BY : ALLEGORICA
2025 , FEBRUARY 28 . ``ARTISTI ESPRESSO ´´ , (MUSIC AND ART) 3 OPERAS , MIMESIS I , II , III , 1.00 X 1.20 MTS , IMPACT ROMA , VIA PALERMO 41 , ROMA.
COMMISSIONED BY : COLAB ART AND IMPACT ART ROMA.
2021 , OCTOBER 23 . ``ART ABOVE´´ ( MUSIC AND ART) AVANCER BUILIDING , SAN LUIS POTOSI. MEXICO , CURATED BY : BLUE VENADO Y LAVA .
2021 , MAY-AUGUST. ``IDENTIDADES (IDENTITIES): PAINTING / SCULPTURE/ PHOTOGRAPHY ´´ , SOPHART GALLERY , MEXICO CITY. , EDGAR ALLAN POE 94 .
2021 , SPETEMBER 4. ``WOP: ARTS FESTIVAL ´´ TANGENTE 52 BUILDING , SAN LUIS POTOSI. MEXICO, COLLECTIVE SHOW OF VARIOUS YOUNG ARTISTS (NATIVE) , MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE.
2021 , MAY-AUGUST . ``INSANIA: BETWEEN GENIUS AND MADNESS ´´ CAJA REAL UASLP (LOCAL UNIVERSITY) MUSEUM , HISTORICAL CENTER, SAN LUIS POTOSI. MEXICO, . (17 ARTISTS ALL NATIVE OF SAN LUIS POTOSI.)
2021 , APRIL 1 . ``FORUM LEONORA ´´ 1ST EDITION, LEONORA CARRIGNTON MUSEUM , HISTORICAL CENTER, SAN LUIS POTOSI. MEXICO, YOUNG ARTISTS.
2020-2021 , DECEMBER 17 - JANUARY 4 . ``SMALL WORKS´´ , ZONA1 BUILDING , SAN LUIS POTOSI. MEXICO, COLLECTIVE NATIVE ARTISTS AND OTHER STATES OF MEXICO.
