Federico Galavis is a Venezuelan-American artist based in Los Angeles. Raised in Caracas, he grew up amid design and pattern—an early education that, together with Venezuela’s modern and kinetic lineages, underpins a practice spanning painting, media, digital Art and installation. 

Before the studio, Galavis worked in front of the camera in commercials, music videos, and independent film; that training in framing and duration continues to inform how he composes image, time, and attention.

His visual language folds fauvist chroma, surrealist rupture, and cubist structure into a contemporary, disciplined vocabulary. He works with oils, aerosol, textured grounds, and unconventional supports alongside code and AI, treating software as another brush and the algorithm as a compositional constraint. Across his works, Galavis tracks questions of consciousness, spirituality, equity, and inclusion. It centers the creative force of the feminine as a counterweight to historically violent masculinities and calls for individual and collective liberation without resorting to slogan or didacticism.

Since 2021, Galavis has engaged Web3 as civic infrastructure rather than subject matter—“a complex set of math and algorithms that reintroduce ethics into humanity,” as he describes it. He uses blockchain for provenance, access, experimentation and cultural memory, investigating how decentralized systems protect fragile narratives and return authority to communities.

Galavis serves as a Commissioner on the Santa Monica Arts Commission and the Chair of the City’s Media Arts Committee. His works have been exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe, and the Middle East, and are held in private collections across those regions. 

A guiding presence in his practice is his great-grandfather, Salomon Horovitz—known as “El Hombre del Maíz” and a Guggenheim Fellow—whose blend of scientific rigor and civic imagination instilled in him a commitment to accountability, truth-seeking, and ethical responsibility.

“Paint and code have become my weapons and my allies in the fight for freedom; art frees not only the individual, it frees civilizations. In this urgent time—when images accelerate and algorithms distract—art slows the pulse, asks us to question, reflect, and expand. I work with pigments, pixels, and generative systems, treating software as a brush and constraint as ethics. 
On-chain, I anchor provenance and cultural memory, using blockchain as civic infrastructure—math as ethics—to resist erasure, return custody to communities, and keep our stories alive. Between studio and ledger, I search for forms that repair, liberate, and evoke hope.” — Galavis