Hermann Mejia - Venezuela
Hermann Mejia (1973) is an American visual artist with Latin American roots, having been born in Caracas.
He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he has had his studio for the last couple of decades.
He was recently featured by the Huffington Post, in a piece published to coincide with the date of Simon Bolivar’s birthday, as one of 15 famous Venezuelan artists its readers should know about.
His first involvement as an art creator was during adolescence, through the street art movement, which led to distinctive tags and murals of his decorating street corners and main thoroughfares in Caracas for many years.
He subsequently received formal training and a graphic design and illustration degree at the prestigious Instituto de Diseño de Caracas (Caracas Design Institute, 1991-1995)
Starting in 1995, he began exploring fine arts as a vehicle for more personal artistic expression, which resulted in artworks that have been shown in many art exhibitions, both collective ones and solo shows, initially in Venezuela and later in several other countries.
At the same time, he has worked as an on-demand illustrator for written media and for many publishers.