Juan Carlos Batista (Tenerife, 1960) moves between the surreal and the conceptual. Some concepts that are also present in his work are appropriation, irony and black humor. His work revolves around disappointment and the erratic drift of men, recurring themes that are not a guarantee of anything.

Batista is a virtuous intellectual who skilfully handles the catalog of images and concepts that contemporary times offer, appropriating them and intervening to subvert their initial content, and weave them into a subtle and ironic plot. This is how the artist manifests the critical disenchantment that maintains with the reality that surrounds us.

Of his latest individual exhibitions, we highlight Temores Infundados at the Kaplan Projects gallery, Carne Triste at the Casal Solleric and La Trinchera Errante at the El Aljibe Hall of the CIC El Almacén de Lanzarote. The individual project Realidad Casi Humo was carried out at the La Regenta Art Center in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and at the Juan Ismael in Fuerteventura in 2017, as well as at the TEA (Tenerife Space for the Arts) a year earlier.

The artist participated in national and international art fairs such as PULSE Miami (United States) or ARCO Madrid (Spain), among others.