Jovan Karlo Villalba (b.1977. Quito, Ecuador) was raised in Miami, Florida. He is an alumnus of New World School of the Arts. Upon graduation, he was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend the Cooper Union, School of Art in New York City. Soon after graduating from Cooper, he acquired an art studio in the Chelsea Art District in New York City. Since then, Villalba has exhibited his work at museums, galleries, and art institutions across the United States including at solo shows in Los Angeles, Miami and New York City. Recently, his work was featured in biennial exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art in New York City, and the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.

Education
The Cooper Union, New York, NY 1995-1999
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL 1992-1995

Selected Exhibitions
2012 "SCOPE Miami" Artisan Series, Miami, FL
2012 "Out of Site" Fred Snitzer at CasaLin, Miami, FL
2012 "GUILD: Puro" Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL
2012 "A Midsummer Night's Dream II" Warehouse Alternative Space, Miami, FL
2012 "Transitional Dwellings" Taché Gallery, NYC, NY -solo
2012 "Everything Changes" Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, SC
2012 "NYC Affordable Art Fair" Taché Gallery, NYC, NY
2011 "Tomorrow Stars" Verge Art Fair, Miami, FL
2011 "Paint Works" National Arts Club, NYC, NY
2011 "Been Around the Block" Christopher Miro Gallery, Miami, FL
2011 "I love you so..." National Arts Club, NYC, NY
2011 "All-Media Biennial" Art & Culture/Hollywood, FL
2010 "Artbitch" Calix Gustav Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 "Verge Art Fair-Artformz" Miami Beach, FL
2010 "Natural Selection" Coconut Grove Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 "NewArt" Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
2010 "Latin Views Biennial 5" Schlippe Gallery, Groton, CT
2010 "New Beginnings" Demossa Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2010 "Young Blood: New Wave" ArtSeen Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 "The Passing" Calix Gustav Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 "Storm" Submergedart Gallery, Newark, NJ
2010 "The Rite of Spring" Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 "Paint" Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2010 "The Group Show" 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2010 "Art for Haiti" Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2009 "Young Blood" ArtSeen Gallery, Miami, FL
2009 "QI4 Biennial" Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2008 "Latin Views Biennial" Schlippe Gallery, Groton, CT
2008 "Jovan Villalba: Premonitions" Tria Gallery, NYC, NY
2007 "Deviant Behavior" Artformz Gallery, Miami, FL
2006 "Latin Views Biennial" Mystic Art Center, Mystic, CN
2006 "The Studio Visit" Exit Art, NYC, NY
2005 "Basel: Visages & Secrets" Mazieres Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 "Exit Biennial II: Traffic" Exit Art, NYC, NY
2004 "CDG Show" Gerard Gallery, Marina Del Rey, CA
2004 "Transitions" SoNo Gallery, NYC, NY
2004 "Bino-scapes" Berlinerkunst Project, Berlin, Germany
2003 "Beyond the Skin" SoNo Gallery, NYC, NY
2003 "Entity" Paula Barr Gallery, NYC, NY
2003 "Wet Paint" Office Ops Gallery Space, Brooklyn, NY
2002 "Primer Salon de Arte Cubano" SoNo Gallery, NYC, NY
1999 "3000 Chairs" New York Design Center, NYC, NY