Nelo Vinuesa (b. 1980, Valencia, Spain) treats the blank sheet or canvas as a map still to be drawn: forms are not planned but discovered through the act of painting itself, so that color and gesture reveal a structure that did not exist before the work began.

Vinuesa mixes his own colors rather than working from prepared paint, treating hue as psychologically and culturally resonant rather than purely decorative, each palette built to carry a specific emotional register drawn from memory or lived experience. Landscape functions in his work less as depicted scenery than as a structure for thinking about human existence, remembered or imagined terrain rather than a place observed and recorded; against this chromatic atmosphere, Vinuesa lays down a linear structure in black or dark pigment, marks that read as maps, fissures, or root systems cutting across fields of color.

That method has produced bodies of work including Cavern Fire, Un Riu Salvatge (A Wild River), and Aunque es de noche (Even Though It Is Night), titles that move between geological, mythic, and nocturnal registers as the paintings themselves move between eruption and stillness. Vinuesa works primarily in oil on paper, a support whose absorbency and fragility push him toward faster, more immediate decisions than canvas would allow, sheets that register each layer of revision rather than concealing it.

Alongside painting, Vinuesa maintains an audiovisual and installation practice, developed in part through a project realized in London on a grant from the CAM Foundation; the sequencing, framing, and durational thinking of video feed back into the paintings, informing how a single canvas can suggest movement across time rather than one fixed moment.

Vinuesa studied fine art at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, graduating in 2003, and held a fellowship-residency at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in 2015–16. His work is held in the collections of the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, the DKV Foundation, and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, and has been shown across Spain, Brazil, and Switzerland. He lives and works in Valencia.