Collection: Guillo Pérez III

American (born Dominican Republic), 1981
Currently living and working in Tampa, Florida, USA

Guillo Pérez III is a visionary Dominican-American artist whose work fuses magical realism, expressionist intensity, and a figurative style rooted in a storied artistic lineage. Born in 1981 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and raised in Queens, New York, Guillo carries the legacy of a celebrated artistic bloodline, his grandfather, the legendary Dominican painter Guillo Pérez, and his father, both acclaimed oil painters who passed down not only their techniques but also a fierce creative ethos.

Now based in Tampa, Florida, Guillo continues to refine his singular artistic philosophy, Bauhaus Budō, a fusion of Bauhaus design theory and martial-arts-inspired discipline that channels movement, gesture, and emotional spontaneity into visual form. The result is a body of work that is unmistakably his own: neo-expressionist oil paintings that vibrate with color, myth, symbolism, and human emotion.

His figurative paintings often appear to exist in parallel dimensions, vivid inner worlds where spirit, identity, memory, and transformation collide. Color and line are equally powerful forces in Guillo’s canvases, each brushstroke charged with movement and meaning. Viewers are drawn into scenes that oscillate between stillness and eruption, inviting a profound reckoning with self and soul.

A lifelong contributor to the art ecosystem, Guillo has also made his mark as a gallery founder, muralist, and arts educator. Between 2008 and 2011, he launched three independent galleries in South Beach, Miami, and later co-founded ESP Gallery in Chelsea, New York, establishing six exhibition spaces that reshaped the downtown art scene. In 2022, he brought that vision full circle with the co-founding of Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery, where he continues to lead with an eye for transcendent, boundary-breaking work.

In addition to his studio practice, Guillo is a dedicated educator and community muralist, sharing his techniques and visual language with emerging artists and youth through workshops, residencies, and public art initiatives. His large-scale murals across Florida and New York serve as open-air canvases that bridge personal myth and collective narrative.

Guillo’s work has been exhibited across the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America, and acquired by collectors and institutions internationally. In 2015, his standout presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach cemented his place as a leading Latinx expressionist. His collections, Hawking’s Nebula, Los Hijos del Sol, and others, explore ancestry, metaphysics, and the mythic resonance of identity.

He was hailed by The New York Times as a “Star Maker” for his role in launching emerging talent, and his contributions have been featured in major cultural publications celebrating Latino artistic excellence.

Guillo Pérez III’s art is not just visual...it is ritual, rhythm, and revelation.
Each painting is an encounter. Each brushstroke, a meditation.

Discover his latest works at Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery.

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