Origin: Medellín, Colombia

Based in: Medellín, Colombia

Year of birth: 1995

Juan Camilo Celis is a Colombian painter based in Medellín whose work is defined by technical precision, saturated colour, and imagery drawn from contemporary popular culture. ARTitude’s artist text describes him as born in 1995 and notes that his practice is built through transcriptions of common sights, reworked into paintings that heighten the visual language of everyday life.

His paintings often centre on recognisable public figures and culturally loaded images, translating them into bold, graphic compositions with a strong contemporary presence. This approach gives his work an immediacy that sits between portraiture, visual commentary, and pop-inflected painting, while maintaining a distinctly painterly execution.