Aimée Joaristi is a Cuban-born, Costa Rican-Spanish multidisciplinary artist. Her practice moves across painting, installation, performance, photography, video art, and short film, shaping a visual universe marked by intense gesture and emotional force. Through these mediums, her work engages themes such as the unconscious, playful transgression, Cuban migration, female empowerment, and the destruction of nature, always through an intuitive search that turns creation into a space of confrontation, memory, and revelation.
Her career includes participation in major international biennials and exhibitions, among them the 1st SACO International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2021), the 13th Havana Biennial, the Mantova International Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Guayaquil Biennial, and the 5th Riga International Triennial of Fiber Art and Textile. Her work has also been presented at institutions and fairs such as Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain (Brest), Matadero Madrid, Museo C.A.V. La Neomudéjar, Museo Ciudad del Arte Zapadores, PHotoEspaña, ARCO Madrid, MoCAA Miami, ART Lima, the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno “Carlos Mérida,” and Museo Miraflores, among other venues across Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
Joaristi has received recognitions including the Artist of the Future Award from Contemporary Art Curator Magazine and the Emerging Artist Award Dubai from TAG Gallery.
Her work has been featured in specialized books and exhibition catalogues, and is now part of important private and public collections, including the Wifredo Lam Museum, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Latvia, Museo C.A.V. La Neomudéjar, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas.
She currently lives and works between Costa Rica and LA.
Aimée Joaristi is an artist whose work stands at the intersection of gesture, matter, memory, and existential intensity. Her paintings are not built to please passively. They are built to confront, to disturb, to resonate, and to remain.
The Philosophy Behind Her Works
For Aimée, painting is inseparable from inner necessity. She has described it as spiritual, as freedom, and as one of the most radical ways of entering into contact with what exceeds ordinary language.
Her work draws on recurring concerns: silence and scream, body and shadow, surface and depth, fracture and continuity, memory and mortality. She is deeply interested in the superposition of realities, the play of planes, and the tension between what is structured and what erupts.
Critically, her painting has been read in relation to informalism and abstract expressionism, particularly in its emphasis on gesture, material force, emotional density, and the canvas as a site of event rather than illustration. But beyond those references, the work remains unmistakably her own: personal, visceral, and unwilling to become complacent.
Born in Cuba and shaped by life across Madrid, New York, Milan, and Costa Rica, Aimée Joaristi has developed a practice marked by movement, rupture, reinvention, and cultural layering. That trajectory does not sit outside the work. It runs through it. From urban intensity to tropical return, from design and fashion to painting, architecture, and spatial thinking, her life has been one of constant reconfiguration.
Aimée Joaristi’s work speaks especially to collectors who seek more than visual agreement. These are works for those drawn to presence, contradiction, and emotional charge; for those who want art that can live powerfully in space while continuing to unfold conceptually over time.
Whether through large-scale painting or more intimate works on paper, her practice offers a sustained engagement with the deepest layers of perception and experience.
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