Dennis Miranda Zamorano

Dennis Miranda Zamorano (b. 1993) is a Mexican self-taught artist born in Mexico City, where he lives and works. His practice is deeply informed by El Tianguis, Mexico’s open-air market tradition, in which his family has participated for generations. The market’s shifting arrangements, encounters, negotiations and circulation of objects provide both a conceptual and compositional model for his approach to painting.

Zamorano treats the canvas as a similarly unstable site of exchange and transformation. Moving between figuration and abstraction, his paintings emerge through an intensely physical process of accumulation and excavation. Layers of oil, acrylic, watercolor and house paint are built up before being scratched, sanded, scored, chiseled, dissolved or power-washed away. Canvases may also be exposed to outdoor conditions, allowing weather and time to participate in their formation. Through this continual process of construction and erasure, images appear, disappear and re-emerge within tactile, densely worked surfaces.

Dreams, memories, encounters and the human body intersect with natural and imaginary forms throughout his work. Rather than separating the figure from its surroundings, Zamorano often allows bodies and landscapes to merge into one another, creating ambiguous spaces in which internal and external realities become difficult to distinguish. Painting functions as a form of ritual through which he explores desire, mortality, transformation and the fragile nature of human experience.

In 2025, Zamorano presented I am the Landscape at Château La Coste in Aix-en-Provence, his first institutional solo exhibition in Europe. His work has also been exhibited at X Museum, Beijing; Consortium Museum, Dijon; TAO Art Space, Taipei; Galerie Marguo, Paris; and galleries and project spaces in Mexico City, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende. His work is held in collections across the United States, Europe and Asia, including the Cc Art Foundation in Shanghai.