Josias Figueirido

Assistant Professor of Art
FPA 233B
956.326.3041
josias.figueirido@tamiu.edu

Courses: Drawing, Painting

Josias Figueirido is an artist from Spain based in Laredo, Texas. He received an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (2017), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Drawing from the Royal Drawing School in London (2010), and a BA in Fine Arts from London Metropolitan University in London (2008). Figueirido has been an artist in residence at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Post-Graduate Apprentice Program), Dumfries House, Moritz-Heyman Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences.

Working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking, Figueirido’s work channels personal and social dilemmas into biographical and fictional narratives. Combining both humor and horror, his work addresses recurrent themes such as technology, loneliness, definitions, meaning, war, power, peace, and love.

Among other group exhibitions, his work has been shown at the Royal Academy (Summer Exhibitions), London, Museo de Artes do Gravado á Estampa Dixital, Artes (Spain), and Portal: Governors Island art fair, New York. His most recent solo shows include “Give Me A Light That I May Walk Safely into The Unknown” at Marginal Utility Gallery, and “Anything Goes As Long As It’s A Joke” at CR Ettinger Studio Gallery, both in Philadelphia. His work is included in several collections, including The Horseman Collection of American Art (St. Louis, MO), Paintings in Hospitals Collection (London, UK), and Francisco Fernandez del Riego Collection (Vigo, Spain). Currently, his work can be seen at Zebra One Gallery in London.