Mau (Mauricio Rojas) was born in Santiago of Chile in 1974. He is married and is father to two children. Currently, he’s living in Texas USA and has been since 2015. Before the pandemic, he traveled for over 15 years, mostly to different countries in Latino-America and Europe, where he encountered different cultures, cuisines, histories, and especially art styles. Such art styles included the graffities on the streets of Rio Brazil, building designs in Barcelona, or the Botero museum in Bogotá.

He spent three years of his life in the country of Mexico where he regularly visited amazing places, such as magic towns. These towns provided a lot of inspiration, the way modern buildings intertwined with old architecture, aided him in the development of his art style. Apart from art, he enjoys cooking and trying new South American and Asian recipes. Additionally, he loves music of different styles, preferable modern folk and alternative, and expanded his love for music by playing the guitar. His appreciation for culture encouraged him to learn Portuguese and English in addition to his mother tongue, Spanish.

Most of his work has been in water-based latex paint and most of the time portrays emotionless women or men as models. He experiments with different styles, some derived from native cultures from South America, like body painting from selk’nam and
rain forest tribes. He is passionate about representing either important events regarding social and gender equality, or the mass control and the loss of important values, caused by the technology progress. The intention of his work is to transmit and create awareness of ancient, in some cases extinct, native cultures all while adding a modern twist.