José Ernesto Manosalvas Chiriboga
Visual artist, graphic designer, and printmaker — Quito, Ecuador, 1984
Visual artist, graphic designer, and printmaker — Quito, Ecuador, 1984
Ecuadorian visual artist, printmaker, and graphic designer trained in Visual Communication at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. His practice moves fluidly across art, design, and illustration, integrating traditional techniques such as drawing, painting, and printmaking.
His work is built upon a narrative of symbolic language that evokes themes of spirituality, psychoanalysis, and personal mythology.
His work is built upon a narrative of symbolic language that evokes themes of spirituality, psychoanalysis, and personal mythology.
He is the author of The Pilgrim, a multidisciplinary project developed over 16 years, combining image, literature, and symbols into an illustrated tale, a graphic oracle, and an immersive theatrical performance.
In Self-Love Message, he addresses grief and healing through the form of an artist’s book, from a sensitive and innocent perspective.
His comic Satori, created as his thesis project in Visual Communication, explores dream worlds and altered states of consciousness. The work was awarded second place in the 2009 Ichiban Contest.
He has also developed numerous visual identity projects, publications, and exhibitions both within Ecuador and internationally.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Self-Love Message – 7 Tiempos Gallery-Restaurant, Quito, Ecuador (June 2023)
Self-Love Message – Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión, Quito, Ecuador (December 2023)
Self-Love Message – Museo de la Ciudad, Quito, Ecuador (June 2024)
Self-Love Message – Centro Cívico Mariscal Sucre, Quito, Ecuador (November 2024)
The Pilgrim: A Soul’s Journey – Church of the Museo de la Ciudad, Quito, Ecuador (April–May 2025)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Fue Teté – Final Visual Communication Projects, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Centro Cultural Itchimbía, Quito, Ecuador (August 2009)
Ichiban National Comic & Manga Contest – Group Exhibition of Winning Works, Centro Cultural PUCE, Quito, Ecuador (July 2009)
Photography Final Projects – Centro de la Imagen, Alliance Française, Quito, Ecuador (March 2010)
Ecuadorian Sanctuaries – Christmas Exhibition, Cienfuegos Gallery, Quito, Ecuador (November 2014)
Espejismos – Centro de Promoción Artística, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito, Ecuador (December 2015)
Gabinete de Paradojas: Libro de Artista (4th Edition) – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador (March 2022)
Brujerías – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador (April 2023)
Brujerías – Museo de América, Madrid, Spain (April 2023)
Brujerías – Museo Estudio Alfara, Oviedo, Spain (April 2023)
Trazo Lúdico (4th Edition) – Estampería Quiteña, Quito, Ecuador (June 2024)
Pensar el Libro – Collective exhibition and collaborative book with 16 artists (2024)
Launch & Collective Exhibition – Piel de Gallina Magazine, 7th Edition – Quito, Ecuador (April 2024)
Claroscuro – Libro de Artista (5th Edition) – Estampería Quiteña, Quito, Ecuador (2024)
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
"Dark Romanticism" – Museo de la Ciudad, Quito, Ecuador (August 2019)
"The Oracle of The Pilgrim" – 3rd Tarot Gathering at the Middle of the World, Quito, Ecuador (October 2023)
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Second Place (Professional Category) – Ichiban Comic & Manga Contest, Ecuador (2009)
First Place – Fotomaratón Photography Contest, Andean Climbing Club, National Polytechnic University, Ecuador (2014)