In a nutshell: I’m ANTONIOxEREZ, a professional visual painter and research collaborator of the Seville University, College of Fine Arts, in Spain. I was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, and based in Columbus, Ohio. I’m represented by Sharon Weiss Gallery and Burkholder Agency in the DMV region, and my current project, Social Organs (2025–2030), opened with a sold-out show in 2025. My community project, CASP! (formerly ECO&CO), received the 2026 Dale E. Heydlauff Community Arts Innovation Award.

Antonio Gonzalez, who works as ANTONIOxEREZ, is a visual artist born in 1990 in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. He completed his MFA at the École supérieure d’art d’Avignon in France (2016) where he developed his realist practice among peers working in installation, performance, land art, and social art.

Community engagement has long informed his work. In Spain between 2016-2018, led an art program for adolescents in underserved neighborhoods and young emigrants in irregular situations through the social project Yo Soy Zona Sur (I Am Southside). Since relocating to Columbus, Ohio, in 2018, he has combined fi gurative painting with community-based work and has taught watercolor and drawing at the McConnell Arts Center since 2023. He is represented by Sharon Weiss Gallery in Columbus and by Burkholder Agency in the D.C.–Maryland–Virginia (DMV) region.

In 2024, a Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Projects grant supported ECO&CO (Empowering Communities with Inclusion and Coexistence), which engaged more than 70 at-risk youth across Greater Columbus alongside community partners. The program, now named CASP! (Community Arts Social Program), is a 2026 recipient of the Dale E. Heydlauff Community Arts Innovation Award.

This focus on community continues in Social Organs (2025–2030), an ongoing series examining how community shapes the individual. The series debuted in 2025 with a sold-out exhibition at Sharon Weiss Gallery. That year, he was also invited to an artist residency organized by Artway, Inc. in Genoa. In 2026, he was invited to join the University of Seville College of Fine Arts as a research collaborator and was interviewed by PBS, the U.S. public broadcaster.