
Bio
Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya is an American visual artist born in Venezuela, of Cuban and Russian descent. His multidisciplinary practice explores the poetics of nostalgia, memory, and the childlike experience of light and color. Rooted in expressionist abstraction and guided by intuition, his work transforms hue, texture, and spontaneous gesture into immersive environments that blur the line between emotional resonance and abstract form. With a sensibility both tender and bold, his paintings and installations evoke the vulnerability, wonder, and curiosity of childhood.
A longtime student of the Art Students League of New York, where he studied under Frank O’Cain, Djuro-Goiricelaya’s work spans over two decades across exhibitions, performances, and residencies in New York, Montreal, Berlin, Chiapas, and the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, where he is currently based. His use of found materials and elemental processes—rainwater, soil, plant matter—creates a visceral connection to the landscapes and cultural roots that shape his identity.
His projects, including The Wall of Flowers and Art for Breakfast, investigate how personal memory intersects with collective experience, reimagining everyday rituals and natural phenomena as symbolic acts of reflection and healing. His performances—La Revolución Cromática, Píntame Angelitos Negros, and La Sinfonía del Muro de Flores—extend this visual language into time-based expressions of the ephemeral and emotive.
Djuro-Goiricelaya is the co-founder of El Patio de Mi Casa, an artist-run residency and exhibition space, and currently serves as an Art Commissioner for the city of Allentown and Director of Arts Integration for AACES. His work has been featured in institutions including the Allentown Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio in New York City, and the Centro de Bellas Artes de Maracaibo (CBA), among others internationally.
Through every medium, Djuro-Goiricelaya invites audiences into luminous, emotionally resonant worlds—where color remembers, textures dream, and the transformative power of play and process opens new ways of seeing.