Federico Galavis is a Venezuelan-American artist based in Los Angeles. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, media, digital art, and installation. As an immigrant, his work is also informed by memory, translation, and belonging. Before he discovered painting, Galavis worked as an actor in front of the camera in commercials, music videos, and independent films; that exposure to framing and cinematography continues to inform his work. Once the subject of the frame, he now creates the contents of the frame. 

Galavis visual language draws from Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism—saturated color, geometry, and figurative shapes are constants throughout his work. His materials of choice consist of oils, aerosol, pastels, charcoal, canvas, cardboard, and paper. He incorporates AI and code, treating software as another brush and the algorithm as a creative tool. Images develop over time through iteration and craft in dialogue with machine gestures. He has incorporated blockchain in his work—“a complex set of code and algorithms that sustains an immutable public ledger" as he describes it. He uses blockchain for provenance, experimentation, and to preserve his cultural memory. He strives to both ask and answer the question of what it means to co-create with new technologies.

His works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe, and the Middle East, and are held in private collections around the world.

Galavis is an active member of the Los Angeles art community and has served as a Commissioner on the Santa Monica Arts Commission, on the Public Arts Committee, and as Chair of the City’s Media Arts Committee.

“In this pivotal time—when technology can be both a creative tool and also harmful to us—art slows the pulse, asks us to question, reflect, and expand. I search for forms that repair, liberate, and evoke hope.”

 — Galavis