Mariojosé ANGELES, (1965) was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1982, he starts studying architecture (University Autonomous of Santo Domingo) and after 3 years into the program, he decides to completely to studying painting. He held various collective and individual exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, starting in 1988. After his exhibition "Iconos Caribe" (1997) in the Archaeological Museum of Altos de Chavón, he was selected to participate in the Salon "Grands et Jeunes d'Aujoud'hui" in Paris. Since then, 1998 to 2007 he lived and worked in Brussels. He studied sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts Jean Jacques Belliard, Brussels Belgium, in 2000. In 2009 he presented the Installation Project “ Santa Cucaracha” Enquiry on the AIDS vaccine, FIART- First International Art-Fier at Palace of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Now he lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Collective exhibitions over the last few years:

1998- Salon "Grands et Jeunes d'Aujoud'hui" in Paris

1999- “Simplemente Caribe” Kunty Moreau Art Gallery ,Eghzee, Belgium

1999- « Rwanda Through Caribbean Eyes » European Parliament, Brussels

1999- Salon Coup de Coeur, Espace Pierre Cardin, Brussels and Paris

2000- Salon Coup de Coeur, Museum of the Unesco, Beirut, Lebanon

2000- Parcours des Artistes, St. Gilles, Brussels

2000- Coup de Coeur 2000 ( finalist artist) Parcours des Artistes, St. Gilles, Brussels

2001- Second Auction of Latin-American Artists, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2002- « Mémoire des Caraïbes » Viviana Grandi Art Gallery, Bruxelles

2002- XII Summit of Heads of States and of Governments, Bavaro, Dominican Republic

2002- VI Biennial of Contemporary Art, Laeken, Brussels

2003- IV Biennial International of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy

2003- “What’s a Gallery” Kunty Moreau Art Gallery ,Eghzee, Belgium

2004- Artiade Olympic of Visual Arts, Athens, Greece

2005- Biennial International Contemporary Art, Arad, Rumania

2005- “ Tous Ensemble” Salle Fabry, Woluwe St.Pierre, Brussels

2006- Group Anima ,Castle Malou, (Urban Intervention), Brussels

2006- “Festimage” International Festival of Photography, Chaves, Portugal

2006- Nine Photographers to the Parisian Hour, Embassy of France, Dominican Republic

2006- The Art and the Universe, Uccle Cultural Center, Brussels

2007- Competition of photography “Treated about Rome” (first prize) Uccle Cultural Center, Brussels

2008-“ Vasos Comunicantes” Prado Fine Art Colletion Art Gallery Santo Domingo Dominican Republic

2008- “From the plastic to fotography” Secretary of State of Culture, Dominican Republic

2009- “Miradas de la Noche” Museum of the Royal Houses, Domincan Republic

2009- Installation Project “ Santa Cucaracha” Enquiry on the AIDS vaccine, FIART- First International Art-Fire, Palace of Fine Arts, Dominican Republic

2009- International Festival “Vivamerica” Madrid, Bogota, Cadiz y Santo Domingo, Casa de Teatro, Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic

2010- Exhibition elit-tile 2010, Fourth International Ceramic Tile Triennial, Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic

2010- International Competition MajdanArt Exhibition Art in Miniature( First price) Majdanpek, Serbia

Some individual exhibitions over the last few years:

1991- "Del Cono Sur a las Antillas" (first individual exhibition), Ambassador Hotel, Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep.

1995- " Los Visitantes" Nucleus of Executives, Guayaquil, Equator

1997-" Iconos Caribe" Archaeological Museum of Altos de Chavon, Dominican Rep. 1998- Eleventh Gála of the Press, Brussels

2000- Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France

2002- "Multidisciplinaire-Multidisciplinary" Painting-Photography-Sculpture, Casa de Italia, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2003- "Homosapiens-Caribeen" mural painting in the permanent collection of Notre de la Paix, University of Namur, Belgium

2005- Parcours des Artistes Uccle, Brussels, Belgium

2006- Projet « Integration » Installation- Photography – Painting, Salle Fabry, Brussels

2010- “Blue Dreams” Digital-Art Photography- Quinta Dominica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

From 2000 to 2004, he was Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Belgium, The Netherlands and the European Union.