Gil Padrino Roberto Jesús (Venezuela) lives and works in Lima.
He studied Audiovisual Sciences and Photography in Caracas and worked in that city as a photojournalist for various print and digital media. It is during that period that he reflects on the behavior of humans in the environment, a topic that represents his central search in photography and video.
He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally:
- Official selection for the 7th PERUVIAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2020 with the play "them and us"
- Selected for the STOP VIRUS FILM FESTIVAL 2020. The objective of the festival is to promote the culture and creativity of independent filmmakers, giving them the possibility to contribute socially with what they know how to do, cinema, and deliver it free to the population.
- Official Selection First-Time Filmmaker Sessions 2020. is a monthly online showcase, dedicated to projecting the monthly collection of shorts and independent features presented worldwide.
- Official Selection Lift-Off Sessions June 2020. This festival is a monthly online showcase, dedicated to projecting the monthly collection of shorts and independent features presented worldwide.
- Selected for the virtual exhibition by the convid-19 CONFINED BODIES 2020. It proposes to explore the experiences of our bodies in this moment of immunological threat that has led a large part of humanity to confine themselves to their homes. (Venezuela 2020)
- Collective exhibition of visual arts for the SURREALIST exhibition in tribute to TILSA TSUCHIYA (Peru 2019)
- Selected with video art (DIANA) for the (9th Under the Subway Video Art Night 2019) is an event focused exclusively on video art with projections on street walls, art spaces, galleries, cultural centers, etc. directed, organized and curated by Antonio Orduño. This festival was held simultaneously in (United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Spain, 2019)
- Collective exhibition for the II International Video Meeting organized by Umbral Espacio de Arte. (Argentina 2019)
- Finalist of the FINI International Image Festival contest. With thematic axis "Populism". (Mexico 2019)
- Collective exhibition of documentary photographers residing in Latin America "MIGRANDO project" self-managed by the Contrapique EC collective. House of the Rebel Culture (Ecuador 2019)
- Selected to join the CELS catalog on migration and human rights and (Exhibition Migrate is a Right) in the Matienzo cultural club. (Argentina 2019)
- Collective Exhibition, Political Cartographies organized by Espacio GAF Contemporary Photography and Blank Space, (Mexico year 2018)
- Video-art category for the 30th edition (1988-2017) of the Festival Les Instants Vidéo, (France year 2017)
- Cosmopolis. Center Cìvic Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain. (2010) Photography (Collective)
- Identity Factory. Espacio A Rojo, Córdoba, Spain. (2009) Photography (Collective)
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- Aníbal Nazoa National Journalism Prize 2017, Digital Photo-journalism. (Venezuela 2017)
- Participation in the VII community film and video festival (Venezuela 2014)
- Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, Graphic Reporter. (Venezuela 2013)
- Photographic Exhibition at the XLII Municipal Prize for Visual Arts Salon Juan Lovera, (Venezuela 2013)
- "I LOVE CCS, TODAY EVEN MORE" at the EspacioMAD Gallery and the Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA) (Venezuela 2011)