“Color is my way of turning memory into presence.”
Miguel Ángel (CAZO), Móstoles, Madrid, 1974
CAZO grew up among graffiti-covered walls and urban culture, an environment that early on shaped his visual imagination and continues to permeate his pictorial language today. Self-taught and multidisciplinary, his career spans photography, television, graphic design, and ceramics—fields that have enriched a painting practice focused on memory and identity.
His work has been presented in solo exhibitions such as Arte Vivo (Genalguacil, 2025), Galería LU (Madrid, 2023), and the project FACES, shown at Galería Subespacio (Donostia) and Librería Anti (Bilbao, 2016). He has also participated in group exhibitions at venues including Espacio Espositivo and El Plantío (Madrid, 2024), as well as MENDIAN at Cristina Enea (Donostia, 2015). In 2025, he was awarded First Prize at the XXIII AMIAB International Competition.
Alongside his painting practice, between 2015 and 2022 he founded MIANDKU, a contemporary ceramics and design project represented in institutions such as the museum shops of the Thyssen and Reina Sofía museums, the RMN in France, and Michelin-starred restaurants including Arrea, Elkano, and Mirador de Ulia. His ceramic work has been shown in group exhibitions such as Basque Product Design (Galería Nana, Donostia, 2018) and Cerámica Vasca (Deba, 2016).
CAZO’s work does not seek exact representation, but emotional truth. Through color and form, he constructs images in which the intimate and the collective intertwine, and where memories—distorted by time—are transformed into pictorial presence. For the artist, painting is a vital necessity: a way to release, through color, what time has kept hidden.
