Victor Mateos.

I was born in 1978 in Madrid, Spain.
My first experience with the arts was in 1991 when I started to study ballet
in Madrid at the Víctor Ullate School followed by a scholarship in NYC at the
School of American Ballet.
For seven years I studied and trained my body in order to express through it.

After my formal education I was involved with many companies throughout Europe.
Víctor Ullate Ballet, Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam, Hamburg Ballet
Dresden Semperoper Ballet and Ballettmainz.
At the present I am a guest artist with Jacoby & Pronk and a member of
Alonzo King Lines Ballet, San Francisco.

For the last few years in addition to my dancing career, I have been working in
mixed media in order to develop, for my mind, the same kind of expression I can
achieve through dance.

Since I was a child I have always been drawing, sewing, performing and diligently
collecting the things that could make me remember a certain moment.
These collected items become the inspiration and body of my work helping to
both recall and tell a story.
Closet doors became an accessible and solid substrate in which to make
collages with all these collected elements and gave the finished products a
human scale.

In April 2008 lacking shame, I took my drawings in a suitcase and went to
a small gallery with the hope of showing my work.
They liked the pieces and gave me the chance to have my first exhibition.