Bio / Luis Cobelo. Artist. Born in 1970 in Acarigua, Venezuela. He grew up and became a photographer between Venezuela and Spain. After a long and consolidated career as a photojournalist carrying out documentary projects in the Americas, Asia and Europe, which were published in magazines in Spain, Europe and Latin America, his current work is based on artistic creation and the production of photobooks and exhibitions. His focus is on Latin American culture, where he generates stories from his personal perspective, reflecting on the transformative process of the everyday into the unusual, the tragic into the funny and vice versa. Inspired by literature, popular culture, cinema, poetry, myths and traditions, (even lies and gossip) he relies on the use of different types of imaginative, magical or fantasy realities, to create parallel worlds tailored to his own expectations. He lives in San Francisco (California) From 1993 to the present, he has participated in numerous art exhibitions and photography festivals worldwide, individually and collectively: Selection: Multiple Exhibitions in Festivals in Venezuela between 1993-2010 Generation 2000 Spain Madrid PhotoEspaña Madrid 2004 Bienal Iberoamericana de fotografía de México 2005 FotoNoviembre Tenerife 2005 Getxophoto Bilbao 2011 Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst Germany 2013 Cortona On the Move Italy 2017-2020 Piú libri piú liberi Roma 2017 Fotografia Europea 2020 Reggio Emilia (cancelled) BredaPhoto Netherlands 2020 Riaperture Ferrara Italy 2021 Compound Yucca Valley (South California) 2021 LA ART Show 2021-2022 Leica Gallery Miami 2022 Leica Gallery Madrid 2022 Festival Gabo, Bogotá 2022 Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles 2023 Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela 2023 Église Palermo Italia 2023 Leica Gallery San Francisco 2024 LOTEK Gallery New York 2024