Guillo Perez 3

Guillo Pérez 3 is a Dominican-American painter born in Santo Domingo and raised in Queens, New York. He is the grandson of Maestro Guillo Pérez, one of the Dominican Republic's most respected painters and a recognized figure in the U.S. State Department's Art in Embassies program. He is the son of master painter Willy Pérez. Three generations of unbroken serious painterly practice, each one building on the last.

He studied advertising at Universidad APEC in Santo Domingo and graphic design at Wobey Tobey Design School in New York — formal training that feeds directly into the Bauhaus dimension of his philosophy. Most significantly, he studied at the Escuela de Arte Guillo Pérez, the school his grandfather founded in the Dominican Republic. He grew up in a deeply religious Christian household and has spent a lifetime in serious study of world history, comparative religion, and international affairs. His paintings are not decorative mythologies. They are the work of a man who has read the texts, lived the contradictions, and paints from the inside of those traditions. When he paints Atabey, the Taino supreme goddess, he is reaching back to the ancestral roots that preceded his Christian formation. When he paints Gilgamesh, he is painting a hero from a civilization that was asking the same questions about mortality and meaning a thousand years before the Bible was written.

Guillo has painted with severely limited vision since childhood. Like Monet, who painted his Water Lilies series while losing his sight, and Matisse, who created his most celebrated works when illness took him away from the canvas, Guillo's relationship with sight has become the source of something extraordinary. Unable to rely on conventional vision, he paints from a place of total interior conviction: from historical knowledge, spiritual formation, and a bodily intelligence built over decades of serious practice. Every mark is a commitment. Every color choice is an act of faith.

When he paints, that is when he is seeing.

Guillo Pérez 3 has developed a singular artistic philosophy he calls Bauhaus Budō: a synthesis of the structural discipline of the Bauhaus design movement and the meditative rigor of the Japanese martial arts tradition. Structure and intuition. Geometry and force. Discipline as the foundation of all creative freedom.

The Bauhaus believed that form and function were inseparable. Budō teaches that the practitioner who has trained for twenty years does not think about technique when they move. The technique has become the body. When Guillo stands before a canvas, the marks he makes come from that place: not calculated but committed. Not tentative but complete. The result is a practice others have described as magical — paintings that feel inhabited rather than constructed, where the technical and the spiritual arrive simultaneously on the surface.

This philosophy takes on its fullest meaning when you understand that he paints with severely limited vision. Every mark must be right when it lands because it comes from somewhere deeper than looking. Bauhaus Budō is the name for the discipline that makes total conviction possible.

In Greek mythology, the rooster is one of Apollo's sacred animals: the herald of dawn, the creature that announces light over darkness every morning. Apollo the god of light and the rooster that heralds it are the same figure in different registers.

Maestro Guillo Pérez raised roosters. He kept them as companions in his studio, painted them, honored them. The studio where Guillo Pérez 3 took his first steps was alive with those birds. The rooster was the first image of the world he knew. It was where he learned, without words, what it meant to be an artist.

When Guillo paints Apollo as a rooster, he is honoring the Greek god of light and creativity. He is honoring the Caribbean tradition where the rooster announces a new day. And he is placing his grandfather at the center of a painting nominally about an ancient god. The grandfather becomes Apollo. The studio becomes the temple. The rooster becomes the through-line connecting three generations of serious painterly practice.

Recognized by the New York Times as a Star Maker — an artist whose influence extends beyond his own practice to shape the work of those around him.

Maestro Guillo Pérez, grandfather of the artist, is a recognized figure in the U.S. State Department's Art in Embassies program — one of the Dominican Republic's most respected painters and a foundation of the three-generation lineage.

The Cage Brewing Octopus mural, painted by Guillo Pérez 3 in collaboration with Blake Emory, was featured by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay as one of the city's must-see works of public art.

Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery — represented by Guillo Pérez 3 as its defining artistic voice — recognized as Tampa's leading contemporary fine art gallery by ThreeBestRated.com 2026.

Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery named a Philanthropists of the Year Finalist by Tampa Bay Business and Wealth Magazine 2025. The only Ybor City honoree.

Work presented at Art Basel Miami Beach — the most significant art fair in the Western hemisphere and the defining platform of the international contemporary art market. One of the most selective and consequential presentations an artist can achieve.

Co-founded ESP Gallery Chelsea 2014 to 2020. Solo exhibition Quantum Navigator at ESP in 2019. Two exhibitions at Amsterdam Whitney Gallery Chelsea in 2015 and 2018. Over a decade of sustained presence in the world's most concentrated gallery district.