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Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an artist, printmaker and educator born in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the United World College Costa Rica in 2007 earning a bilingual IB diploma while understanding the potential of his visual narratives surrounded by 70 students from 65 different countries. As a Davis Scholar, Reinaldo attended the College of Idaho in Caldwell, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts. He later received his Master of Fine Arts from The University of Idaho in 2017.
Reinaldo’s care for education and communal engaging activities through arts has been recognized with several awards in teaching on his emerging career. Since 2017 he has exhibited on regional and national levels and has lectured in several institutions in the North West. His intricate woodcuts have been recognized with multiple first prizes and honorable mentions and he has been featured by printmaking publications such as Pressing Matter and Pine, Copper & Lime. RGZ’s work has been included in collections in the United States and his native country Venezuela, including, the Mary hill Museum of Art, University of Guam, Minot State University and Taller de Artistas Graficos Asociados Graficos TAGA. RGZ currently lives in Spokane, WA where he is a Co-founder and instructor at The Spokane Print & Publishing Center and serves as an art instructor at Eastern Washington University. He also runs RGZprints and collaborates with local non-profits on the development of annual events that highlight printmaking and education such as The Spokane Print Fest and INK Print Rally. www.reinaldogilzambrano.com |
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Artist Statement:
Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an award-winning printmaking artist based in Spokane from Caracas, Venezuela. From an early age, RGZ began collecting unique stories from random social encounters that highlight the common aspects of the human identity that later enriched the visual narratives of his drawings and relief prints. His narrative raises questions of daily issues equally experience by people across culture and borders using relief printing as a storytelling tool for its illustration and reflection. He studies the universal idea of home and how it affects individual personalities by exploring iconography derived from the Majority World and fascinating storytelling inspired by Hispanic literature’s magical realism and illustrations from the Venezuelan Rosana Farias. His wordless visual narratives seek to challenge the limitations of the written language and bring people together in celebration of the commonality of their collective experiences. |
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I'd like to thank the great print assistants we had on this project: Jason Clark, Kenize Olson, Carrie Fields and Darla Pienciak.
This project is made possible with the generous support of the following:
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