Galavis is a Venezuelan-American multidisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles. He began his creative journey in front of the camera—acting in numerous commercials, music videos, and independent films—before fully embracing the visual arts as his medium of transformation and rebellion.

Born and raised in Caracas to an architect father and a mother who is both a doctor and astronomical physicist, Galavis was immersed in a world of geometry, cosmology, and layered meaning from an early age. This unique upbringing, coupled with Venezuela’s rich artistic heritage, deeply informs his practice.

Working across painting, generative media, and installation, Galavis blends fauvism, surrealism, and cubism into a modernist visual language. He experiments boldly with oils, spray paints, textures, and unconventional surfaces to create work that confronts, liberates, and reimagines. At its core, his art is an act of resistance—against conformity, oppression, and erasure. Through his practice, he explores themes of human consciousness, equality, socio-political justice, and the sacred feminine, which he positions as the creative force in contrast to historically destructive masculinity.

Galavis is also a passionate advocate for blockchain as a tool of cultural reclamation. Since 2021, he has been actively engaged in the crypto art and Web3 space, viewing blockchain as “a complex set of math and algorithms that reintroduce ethics into humanity.” His digital work examines the intersections of technology, memory, and decentralized power.

He has exhibited widely across the United States and Europe, with works in private collections throughout South America, Europe, the U.S., and the Middle East.

A guiding influence in Galavis’s work is his great-grandfather, Salomon Horovitz—known as El Hombre del Maíz—whose scientific and socio-political legacy continues to inspire Galavis' pursuit of truth, justice, and the poetic possibilities of image-making.

Salomon Horovitz – Guggenheim Fellow

“Paint and Code has become my weapon and my ally in my fight for freedom; for not only does art free the individual, it frees civilizations. In this crucial time we live in—where art breaks the frantic pace, making us question, reflect, expand—comes a message that can make change, that can evoke hope.” — Galavis