Jose Antonio Vallejo

Jose Antonio Vallejo - Happy little dolls.

Biografía del Artista: José Antonio Vallejo is an artist born in Madrid in 1984, graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2008. Since 2007 he has been working on his project My Favourite Toy, a work in progress that draws on his own experience and emotions. He exhibited individually for the first time in 2009 and obtained the Master's degree in Art, Creation and Research in 2010, which has allowed him to strengthen his discourse and make the dolls that obsess him a representation of his personal diary through the artistic pieces he has created, whether through graphics, sculptures, installations or performances. Vallejo has participated in collective exhibitions in galleries such as Báculo, Espacio8 and Menosuno, and his multidisciplinary work focuses on the construction of one's own identity through play and toys, using his love experience as a basis. For him, it is important to unite the everyday with the transcendental, and create a process that goes from the personal to the universal. His work consists of drawings, objects, videos, performances and installations, and seeks to show the silent catastrophes of ordinary people. In short, José Antonio Vallejo is an artist from Madrid whose ongoing artistic project, Mi Juguete Favorito, draws on his own experience and emotions. His multidisciplinary work focuses on the construction of one's own identity through play and toys, using his experience of love as a basis. His work seeks to show the silent catastrophes of ordinary people, and uses a variety of artistic media, including drawings, objects, videos, performances and installations. He first exhibited individually in 2009 and has participated in group exhibitions at galleries such as Báculo, Espacio8 and Menosuno.

Jose A. Vallejo is an illustrator who has exhibited at various national and international fairs, including his presence at ARCO with ABC Cultural, Estampa, Fig Bilbao and Marte, where he received the Acquisition Award for the best Stand 2020. https://ddrartgallery.com/collections/jose-antonio-vallejo Since 2007 he has been developing his project My Favorite Toy, a project of indefinite duration that grows with the artist's own experience, basing the work on these personal facts, with one's own feelings being infinite. He is currently developing his drawings in different series, where he tells the adventures of his characters (teddy bear, robot, inflatable doll, mannequin, puppet, ghost, piñata, etc.) hiding their true selves, in a flight and hiding against the prejudices of modern society.