Juan Villegas

Visual Art – Austin

Visual artist/musician Juan Carlos Villegas was born in the city of Cali, Colombia, on May 25 1987. In 2005, after graduating from high school Juan Villegas moved to Texas, U.S.A. To pursue his journey in art. In 2010 he graduated from Sam Houston State University with a bachelor of Fine Arts. ​ Juan's oeuvre combines elements of Surrealism and Figurativism, portraying whimsical dreams, nightmares, ideologies, and ever-evolving organisms. Acquired from the depths of imagination, and personal visualizations of the human psyche. ​ Musically, Juan, being a self-taught guitarist, experiments with grunge, hard rock, heavy metal, blues, and psychedelic rock. Juan currently lives in Austin, Texas, and has been showing his work, both visual and musical, around the state at many different venues and galleries.