IntroduceYourself - @KamaronGo || English.

Greetings. My name is José Enrique González Márquez, a plastic artist and teacher born in the town of Lagunillas, on the Eastern Coast of Lake Maracaibo in State of Zulia, Venezuela, April 17th, 1966.

I did my first painting studies on Master Darío Suarez’s workshop, on Cabimas City from 1974 to 1976. In 1975, when I was just 10 years old, I won First Place at “I Salón de Pintura ASTRAMARA” (1st ASTRAMARA Painting Salon) at Lagunillas, my hometown.

In 1976, when I was 11 years old, I started to study drawing, sculpting and painting at the Municipal Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, on the Bolivar District of Cabimas, and on the same year I did my first exposition titled “Paisajes” (Landscapes) at ´Salón de la Caja de los Empleados Públicos´, at Maracaibo City, in State of Zulia.

I had done nine individual expositions and I’d participated on more than two hundred regional, national and international salons and collectives, winning more than 40 awards, of which 13 were nationwide in the form of Drawing.

I am represented in the Latin American Museum, Miami Florida, as well as at Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, "Luis Chacón" Museum of Graphic Arts, "Carmelo Fernández" Museum, "Mateo Manaure" Museum, Museum of the Plains, Urdaneta Museum, BIV Foundation, Ateneo "Casta Joaquina Riera", "Dr. Carlos Emilio Muñoz Oraá" Culture Center, "Dr. Francisco Lazo Martí " House of Culture, Fine Arts Center of Maracaibo, French Alliance of Zulia, Mayor of Maracaibo Municipality, “Conoce Tu Puente” (Know Your Bridge) Cultural Complex in Maracaibo and in many important private collections

On a Urban Level, my most outstanding pieces are, the sculptural set for the Plazoleta del V Centenario, placed on the “Conoce Tu Puente” (Know Your Bridge) Cultural Complex and the Pictorial Mural alluding to the "Glory of Sport”, created in the framework of the Copa América (American Cup), located in the spaces of the Velodrome, "Pachencho Romero" Stadium, in Maracaibo, Zulia.

I was a Founder Member of AVAPCOL, Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de la Costa Oriental del Lago (Association of Artists of the East Coast of the Lake). Currently I work as Head of Chair and Professor on Drawing specialty of the Experimental Faculty of Arts of the University of Zulia, as well as Drawing and Painting at the Technical School of Plastic Arts "Julio Arraga".