Jorge Opazo

JORGE OPAZO
(Buenos Aires, 1970)
Visual artist, teacher, and comic book artist (under the pseudonym Jorge Quien).
He studied Visual Communication and Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile.
He has participated in various exhibitions and received grants and residencies in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Berlin, Chicago, Lyon, and Belfast.
In 2025, he published the graphic novel MUSEUM (Tren en Movimiento, Buenos Aires).
In 2022 and 2021, he participated in the exhibition Fierro: Argentine Comics at the Argentine Embassies in Germany and Italy.
In 2018, he participated in the exhibition Planches de Salut at the Cité Universitaire de Paris.
That same year, he participated in the exhibition Habitar el Territorio at the MATTA Cultural Center of the Chilean Embassy in Argentina.
In 2017, he received an Honorable Mention in the painting category at the National Salon of Visual Arts. That same year, together with sculptor Marcela Oliva, he exhibited the project "The Sophists" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile.
In 2013, he was a Guest Artist at the Lyon BD Festival in France.
In 2012, he participated in the exhibition "Bem Casados" at the Gravura Brasileira Gallery in São Paulo.
In 2010, he participated in the exhibition "Mutations" at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center and in the Second Bronx Latin American Art Biennial at the Gordon Park Gallery in New York.
In 2009, he was included in the retrospective exhibition "90 Years of Painting in Chile" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago.
In 2011, he was part of the selection for the Itaú Cultural Prize at Espacio Itaú.
That same year, he won Third Prize at the Ligatura Comics Festival in Poland.
In 2010, he published his first comic book, "Humanillo" (La Pinta, Buenos Aires). In 2008, he was a Guest Artist at the International Comic Art Forum (ICAF) in Chicago.
In 2007, he was an Artist-in-Residence at the FIX International Festival of Visual Arts in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In 2005, he completed a Research and Work Internship at the Archives of the Di Tella Institute at the Di Tella University.
In 2004, he received a DAAD Scholarship in Visual Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), Germany.
In 2000, he held his first solo exhibition, Nostalgia for Superpainting, at the Vicuña Mackenna Museum in Santiago, Chile.
In 1997, he won First Prize at the Fourth Gunther Painting Biennial at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago.
He lives and works in Buenos Aires.