JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFAÑE

Jean-Pierre Villafañe (b. 1992, Puerto Rico) earned his Master’s in Architecture from Columbia University in New York in 2019, following a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from SCAD, where he completed his final year of studies in Hong Kong. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Embajada, Puerto Rico (2025); Charles Moffett, New York (2024); Diablo Rosso, Panama City (2023); The Armory Fair, New York (2023); Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2022); Hoffmann Maler Wallenberg, Nice (2022); The Yale School of Architecture, New Haven (2022); and Museo de Arte y Diseño, San José (2021); among others. His work extends beyond the gallery wall, he was recently selected to create a mural commission for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (forthcoming). In 2024, he was selected as a resident artist for the year-long Silver Arts residency program at 4 World Trade Center in New York City, and in 2023 he was awarded the TPC Art Finance Prize for the most exceptional and innovative presentation at The Armory Fair. That same year, he completed three large-scale permanent murals for the restaurant Cecchi’s in the West Village, which have since been featured in publications including The New York Times, Forbes, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Vogue. His work was featured on the cover of the winter issue of Art in America.