MoCAA opens the Venezuelan painter's exhibition on Saturday, August 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas opens Eclectic, an exhibition devoted to the work of Freddy Trujillo, a Venezuelan artist based in Doral whose career overruns the boundaries of any single discipline. Television director and producer, novelist, lecturer, poet, painter — the title reads as a literal description.
Trujillo came to painting before he came to the camera. A first canvas, brushes, oils, an easel, along with the linseed oil and turpentine he still recalls with the precision of an inventory, settled a vocation that the Cristóbal Rojas School of Visual Arts turned into training. Television followed. At RCTV, at the Academia de Arte del Cine y la Televisión, and later at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel in Paris, where he made use of the interdisciplinary painting workshops while studying the audiovisual medium.
Paris gave him more than technique. Between the Sorbonne, the Pompidou, the Louvre and the Musée de l'Homme, Trujillo studied light and colour, mass and volume, the human figure. The Aqueduct of Segovia survives as the footprint of those years, and so does a decision — he would be an abstract painter while keeping his television career, directing telenovelas such as El Estupro, Corona and Rebelde, later for American networks.
His statement traces the route without ornament. He began in the figurative, with landscapes, seascapes, the portraits of his parents, the inevitable still-life phase, until abstraction reached him. He stops short of claiming it seduced him. What he says is that the goal made him passionate, and that conceptualising an abstract work strikes him as the harder labour. From there comes what he calls conceptual abstract, ideas taken through a conceptual lens and mixed with communicational codes, the vocabulary of a man who spent decades building images for a screen.
The series gathered in Eclectic press on a single problem. How does one paint a bond? In Coexistence, from which the invitation reproduces Coexistence IV, at 60 by 48 inches, circles of varying sizes and textures share a range of complementary tones; each form stands for an identity, a story, a custom, and all of them hold a wordless dialogue in the same space. The work asks us to recognise that coexistence becomes possible where there is respect, openness, and a willingness to share the canvas of life. People and Family Meeting work the same weave of intertwined shapes as an emotional map, the tenderness of a shared glance, the echo of a familiar laugh. Worlds widens the scale until it turns planetary, and each sphere becomes a reminder to care for the Earth. Roads offers a passage of gentle curves, an intimate map of moving forward. And The Secret keeps, in the twilight, a nameless circle guarding what stays unsaid.
Trujillo has exhibited in Miami, in Wynwood, Doral and Coral Gables, and in New York, Las Vegas, Brussels, Shanghai and Caracas, with solo shows at Art Center Miami and appearances at the Shanghai Art Fair and at Spectrum during Art Basel. He has taught drawing workshops at Miami Dade College and private painting workshops. His life changed in 2012, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's at the age of 60; medication eventually stopped being enough, and deep brain stimulation returned his full working day and, with it, his painting. He now directs the workshops "Conectando a través del Arte," run by the American Parkinson Disease Association, where he accompanies others living with the condition under a premise he states plainly — what he teaches there is enjoyment. That sentence explains what these canvases are after better than any formal description could.
Eclectic is presented with the support of Florida Arts & Culture, Miami-Dade County, Languages Foundation, Editorial María T. and Rodriguez Collection. The same day carries the launch of The Caregiver's Heart. Art as a Bridge, by Yamilet Uzcanga Trujillo. The museum frames the occasion as an encounter between art, literature, caregiving and community, bringing two distinct languages, painting and writing, to the same question.
Saturday, August 22, 2026, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. MoCAA, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas. 12063 SW 131st Ave, Miami, FL 33186. Tel. +1 (305) 213-4162 · info@mocaamericas.org
