“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.” Sir Thomas Browne Ever since I can remember, I have given importance to two things in my life: internal seeking and art. My works of art are concrete and essential approximations of my own inner and outer experiences. They are simple; they reflect me. I have based my work on the flower of life and Metatron’s Cube. Geometric Abstraction allows me to convey deeper thoughts to my audience as a divine human gift. My art is a strong response to the chaotic world around us. Exploring the elements of geometric shapes, light, and color in the combination, I try to bring about harmony, unity, and balance. I would like to reduce my artistic vocabulary to dots, lines, and shades of white. My biggest challenge is to simplify my art expression.

1. RAFAEL MONTILLA
Visual Artist

2. Kubos in action 3D
“The geometric exploration has led me to adopt the cube as the core of my work. A solid
and congruent body that allows me to extrapolate its characteristics to the visual
experimentation through forms, lines and movements, where the playful and the rigid
dialogue argumentatively without denying the meeting points between the system and the
unit, the coincidences between the macro and the particular, that which is repeated and
what changes the singularity” Rafael Montilla

3. Ephemeral Installations 2017 (City Hall of Doral, Marina Key Biscayne, Expocición in Milander Center for
Arts)
Kubois in Action, 2017
Assembly. Sculpture set 5 pieces in PVC
4'x4 ', 3'x3', 2'x2 ', 1'x1', 6 "x6"

4. Public Art

8. Art in public places
“The work of Rafael Montilla takes us to a daily way that generally we do not see or obviate
since it is everywhere, the artist takes the cube as a representation of the contemporary and
the ancestral of the human being”
Leonel Moreno

9. Kubos in action Street Art
The Street is my Gallery
“Montilla has had the audacity to take the city as support and challenge the casual passer-
by or the habitual driver, the one who stops to contemplate or who one day breaks his
routine to observe these white cubes that are knitted together, while adhering to different
surfaces, camouflaging with the urban landscape, while insinuating new rhythms that invite
you to see and be surprised” Johanna Pérez Daza

12. Photography
“The cube, I believe, is the dominant aesthetic principle from which other geometric forms
that contain the natural and urban landscapes in their photographs proceed silently. From
nature, the eye of this poet of the image has managed to capture with his camera the sea
and its waves caressing the sand, which is joined to the sky by the horizon line, where the
sun's touches create multiple tonalities. Depending on the time of day, the atmosphere in
your photos is tinged with golden, ocher, blue or intense orange tones. In other scenes,
these pigments are combined. In the cases in which human figures, buildings or some other
construction inserted in the marine landscape appear, these are appreciated only as
silhouettes” José Gregorio Noroño

13. Kubos in Action, 2017
Plexiglass
4'x4 ', 3'x3', 2'x2 ', 1'x1', 6 "x6"
Key Biscayne Marina

14. “The images of photographer Rafael Montilla produce a seductive effect on the look. The art
of Rafael Montilla builds the bridge from the image to the meaning”
Víctor Fuenmayor, Curator.
Kube in Action, 2018
Plexiglass
4'x3 '
Matheson Hammock Park, Coral Gables

15. Photography Illusion 3d
“Montilla digitally works the forms in order to accentuate the idea of depth and, at the same
time, grant new edges to the perception of the image. The landscape is now dynamic, fickle,
full of tensions. The materials with which they experiment contribute to accentuate this
experience of contemporary photography” Katherine Chacón, Curator.

17. “Rafael Montilla is an experienced photographer who remains in love with the city of Miami
and, above all, with its tropical landscape and vibrant architecture”
Edith Monge Silva, Journalist.
Cerro el Avila, 2016
Sublimation on Aluminum
5 panels, required space 11'
Downtown Miami, 2016
Sublimation on Aluminum
3 panels, required space 7’

18. “For him, innovation is not just a trending word, it's a lifestyle. His photographic proposal
goes beyond digitizing an image or granting volume. On the one hand, with its
deconstructive dynamism, it manages to experience the rebellion of disassembling a dawn;
while with its geometric compositions, it warns of the capture of a unit that, in short,
continues to be nature itself” Drelly Rios, Journalist.

19. Kubos Personality
“The cube offers the possibility of manifesting aspects of personality through colors. In my
work I assume the links between feelings, experiences and personalities themselves, as well
as their variations from a given moment, situations and contexts. That is why specific
feelings can manifest in our personality and good and bad experiences have an impact on it.
Hence, as individuals our personality can be expressed in particular circumstances or endure
over time” Rafael Montilla

20. Kubes in Action
Personality, 2018
18”x18”
Vinyl on wood
Kubes in Action
Personality, 2018
18”x18”
Vinyl on wood
Kubes in Action
Personality, 2018
18”x18”
Vinyl on wood

21. “From an early age
Montilla has had clarity
about the potential of
art to connect stages of
sensitivity, sublimation
and transmutation in
man" Anny Bello, Curator.
Kubes in Action Personality,
2018
18”x18”
Vinyl on wood

22. “Rafael Montilla is an artist of the image
that is lost in the sight. Just take a look
at his photo sculpture to see how his
current cubism transforms the visual
arts as the Cubists did with the plastic
arts at the beginning of the 20th
century. He puts his hands in his eyes to
carve games and illusions in and out of
cubes of multiple perspectives in
emerging North American art” Carlos
Sánchez Fuenmayor, curator.
Kubes in Action Personality, 2018
12” x 12”
Vinyl on wood

23. Art Installation

24. “The Big Bang”
Art Installation Coral Gables Museum
“I consider Rafael to be an excellent artist with a very particular
work of art. I see in him a lot of talent, a lot of energy accompanied
by an impeccable organization.” Rolando Peña

27. "When seeing the work of Montilla all my senses
were as suspended in time and space, and my
reason gave way to my imagination. In front of
it, I was enraptured by the impact of the format
and the accentuated vibrant spiral movement
that detaches from the center. The idea of a
concentrated internal energy, which manifests
itself without losing its point of origin. One feels
an enigmatic condensed energy that, when
released, expands enveloping our individual and
collective universe, without stopping. We
experience in it a kind of pure energy with
principle, which we suppose without end. An
energy that goes from the micro to the macro,
propagating throughout the space. With minimal
plastic resources, Motilla transfers this
significant impression to us. "
José Gregorio Noroño

28. Migraine aura

29. “RAFAEL MONTILLA is exposed in what he exposes to multiple reinterpretations. His pharmaceutical
explorations take him to the magic formulas of the visionary who is delighted with the optical registers that
point out extra plastic pathologies. Experiential laboratory of the art of observation between the normal and
the abnormal of migraines.” Carlos Sánchez Fuenmayor
Migraine aura, 2018
PVC 3.5’x4’
Migraine aura, 2018
PVC 8’ x 2’
Migraine aura, 2018
PVC 2’x4’

30. Sculpture

31. Kubes in Action, 2018
Aluminium
40” x 22” x 8”

32. Kubes 2019

34. Art Performance

38. Solo exhibitions (last three years)

39. 2018
* Kubes in Action Personalities, DATG concept Gallery, October 11 2018, 3625 Northwest 82nd Avenue,
Doral, Florida 33166. Anny Bello curator.
* Kubes in Action, Coral Gables Museum July 6th 2018 Coral Gables Museum 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, Florida
33134. Curators: Anny Bello, José Gregorio Noroño & Carlos Sánchez Fuenmayor.
* Kubes in Action Personalities, June 22nd 2018 Hernán Gamboa Gallery, New Professions Technical Institute &
Humboldt International University, 4000 West Flagler St. Coral Gables, FL. 33134. Anny Bello curator.
2017
* Coctel de Fin de Año 2017 del VBC. Pierini Esthetic Surgery Events Hall December 12 2017 – 8353 NW 36 St Doral,
FL 33166
* THROUGH MY EYES (Photo, Sculpture 3D) November 24th 2017 – Galeria Adelmo 1165 SW 6th St, Miami, FL 33135
*I LOVE MIAMI (Photo Sculpture 3D) April 28th 2017 – Gallery Hernán Gamboa, 4000 W Flagler St, Coral Gables, FL
33134

40. * I LOVE MIAMI (Photo Sculpture 3D) GALA 4TO ANIVERSARIO de la emisora PangeaFM.com Oct. 09 2017 – Pierini
Center 8353 NW 36th St, Doral, FL 33178
2016
* 2016 VBC New Year Cocktail. Pierini Esthetic Surgery Events Hall December 13 2016 – 8353 NW 36 St Doral, FL
33166
* Photo Sculpture, Miami Art Week November 30th 2016 Wynwood Walls (Miami Art Basel Week) 50 NE 29 St
Wynwood 33137 Universal Casting.
* I LOVE MIAMI (Photo Sculpture) November 4th 2016 Doral Conservatory, 2900 NW 109th Ave, Doral, FL 33172. *
* I LOVE MIAMI (Photo Sculpture & Photos) October 13rd 2016 Art Emporium Gallery, 710 SW 13th Ave, Miami, FL I
LOVE MIAMI (Photo Sculpture & Photos) August 19 2016
* Gallery Hernán Gamboa, 4000 W Flagler St, Coral Gables, FL 33134, FL I LOVE MIAMI (Photo Sculpture & Photos)
August 19 2016
* “TOWARDS LIGHT & MEDITATION” (Photos) Concert Conducted by Daniel Andai and Photo exhibition by Rafael
Montilla. Organised by Eduardo Marturet & The MISO. April 9th 2016 Herbert And Nicole Wertheim Performing Art
Center FIU, Miami, FL.

41. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Special recognition for contribution to the Art in the community, delivered by the Mayor of the City of Doral
(Miami Dade), Juan Carlos Bermudez, April 27, 2017
Tomas Regalado, City of Miami Mayor proclaimed August 19, 2016 as Rafael Montilla’s Day.
First prize “Fair Category” Art + Communication Photography. International Network of Social Journalism
(INSJ)Award December 2015 (Art Basel week). INSJ president Horacio Hnaeber presented the award.
Second prize “Abstract Category” Art Communication Photography. INSJ Award December 2015 (Art Basel
week). INSJ president Horacio Hnaeber presented the award.
Recognition for contribution to the Art in the community. Acknowledgment was delivered by Fabio A.
Andrade of The Americas Community Center July 2013

42. Art critics and curators who have written about my artwork:
Víctor Fuenmayor: Caballero de Las Artes and Letras of the French Republic, Doctor of Semiology (Paris
VII University) and Member of AICA, International Association of Art Critics.
Katherine Chacon: Art Critic
Rolando Peña (The Black Prince): Artist
Anny Bello: Art Critic
José Gregorio Noroño: Art Critic
Carlos Sánchez Fuenmayor: University Curator and Art Critic
Johanna Pérez Daza: Art Critic
Juan Antonio González: Art Critic
Publications: El Nuevo Herald, Nagari Magazine, El Universal, El Nacional, MiamiDiario.com,
MujerLatinaUSA.com, Revista Crear Ambientes, E.M.E De Mujer USA, Incubadoravisual.com,
Voyagemia.com, Mpacart.com, Wynwoodtimes.com.

43. Statement
“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”
Sir Thomas Browne
Ever since I can remember, I have given importance to two things in my life: internal
seeking and art. My works of art are concrete and essential approximations of my own inner
and outer experiences. They are simple; they reflect me. I have based my work on the
flower of life and Metatron’s Cube.
Geometric Abstraction allows me to convey deeper thoughts to my audience as a divine
human gift. My art is a strong response to the chaotic world around us. Exploring the
elements of geometric shapes, light, and color in the combination, I try to bring about
harmony, unity, and balance. I would like to reduce my artistic vocabulary to dots, lines,
and shades of white. My biggest challenge is to simplify my art expression.

44. Rafael Montilla
786 286 3748
www.rafaelmontillaart.com
@rafamontillaart
Hernán Gamboa Gallery
Hernán Gamboa Gallery coordinator