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Two large geometric-faced figures at the sides, green mountains above and tabletop objects below, in blue, orange, yellow and purple. Detail of Tragos después del Golf. Acrylic on canvas

About the artist

I paint a human society without masks, where every individual leaves their true identity exposed: who they are, what they want, what they pursue, what they reject and what their interests are.

I watch how people are moved by their affinities, their ideals, their ambitions and their desires, and also by their fears, conflicts and hatreds.

Power holds a central place in my compositions. The figures try to find their place within a collective structure. Anarchy also appears constantly in my work.

Being born and raised in Venezuela shapes the way I understand order and chaos, which is why I build societies where, at times, the figures seem to exist without any social, moral or even legal law that fully determines how they behave.

My work sets out to expose these human contradictions without trying to resolve them.

I am drawn to an imperfect, changing society, one that is hard to put in order, where each person keeps their individuality while inevitably being part of something collective.

Nothing in my work is final. These ideas are also constantly being questioned. As I keep growing and exploring as an artist, the way I look at people, power, society and myself changes too.

Exhibitions and press

Solo exhibitions

  1. 2026 +18Cerquone Gallery × Caracas Campus, Caracas · May
  2. 2025 SociedadClub Camurí Grande, La Guaira · December
  3. 2024 Entre RielesCaracas Country Club, Chacao · November
  4. 2023 ZaperocoGalpones de Los Chorros, Caracas · October
  5. 2023 Rincón del ArteCIEA, Caracas — mural
  6. 2019 Picasso visto por Nicolás LapadulaColegio Integral El Ávila, Caracas
  7. 2018 Sociedad Nicolás LapadulaCumbres, Caracas

Group exhibitions

  1. 2025 IX Subasta de arte, Fundación Carolina Herrera
  2. 2025 Subasta Autismo en Voz Alta, Cerquone Gallery, Caracas
  3. 2025 Caracas Design Week, Ambienti Home
  4. 2025 Subasta Fundación Artes Integradas
  5. 2025 Centro de Arte Latino, Las Mercedes, Caracas
  6. 2025 William Werner, Terrazas del Ávila, Caracas
  7. 2025 Subasta Autismo Dejando Huella, Los Palos Grandes, Caracas
  8. 2025 Subasta silenciosa, Altamira Tennis Club, Caracas
  9. 2024 Embajada de Suiza — Píxeles Horizontes, Caracas
  10. 2024 Caja del Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas
  11. 2024 Espacio de Arte Zientte, Barquisimeto
  12. 2024 N a la 2, con Ricardo Cervini, Caracas Country Club
  13. 2024 Mueblería Spatium, La Castellana, Caracas
  14. 2023 GBG Arts — Oswaldo Vigas, el lenguaje contemporáneo, Caracas
  15. 2023 Fundana Internacional, Captiva Containers, Miami
  16. 2023 INTERLUDIO, GBG Arts, Caracas
  17. 2023 Subasta Autismo en Voz Alta, Hotel Tamanaco, Caracas

Murals

  1. 2024 Escuela El Guamal Warao, Delta del Orinoco — donated
  2. 2024 Club Playa Azul, Naiguatá, La Guaira
  3. 2024 Escuela Campo Alegre, Las Mercedes, Caracas
  4. 2022 Colegio Integral El Ávila, Caracas

Press

  1. 2025 Revista Auno, edición Ernesto Gutiérrez Conte — Visión de lujo en Bocas del Toro
  2. 2024 Portada, revista Casa País — Desaparecen Islas
  3. 2024 A tiempo, televisión internacional — Eduardo Rodríguez Giolitti y Pedro Mezquita
  4. 2024 Unión Radio 90.3 FM — entrevista con Marian Rieber
  5. 2024 Unión Radio — Pedro Mezquita y Eduardo Rodríguez Giolitti

Exhibitions

The figures try to find their place within a collective structure.

  • The +18 title wall at Cerquone Gallery, a large colour canvas beside it and a visitor walking past.
  • The +18 room: the title wall and two colour canvases, with two sculptures on white plinths in front.
  • The full gallery hall around a black spiral staircase, canvases on both walls and sculptures on a plinth.
  • A long view of the gallery, canvases along the far wall and sculptures on plinths.
  • The spiral staircase in the foreground, canvases hung along the walls behind it.
  • Three large canvases on a white wall, a black-and-white sculpture on a plinth in front.
  • Three canvases on the far wall and two sculptures on a plinth in the middle of the room.
  • Three canvases, colour beside black and white, with a black bench in front.
  • The gallery hall from one end, canvases on the walls and sculptures on plinths.
  • Two black-and-white sculptures on a plinth in front of two large canvases.
  • Four canvases on a white wall beside a garden window, sculptures on a plinth.
  • Four canvases hung in a grid of two by two.
  • A large black-and-white canvas and two sculptures on white plinths, by the gallery doors.
  • Black-and-white canvases and sculptures on plinths, the glass doors behind them.
  • A black-and-white sculpture on a plinth in front of a black-and-white canvas.
  • A large colour canvas on a white gallery wall beside the +18 exhibition title.
  • A colour painting hung alone on a grey gallery wall.
  • A colour painting hung alone on a grey gallery wall.
  • Black-and-white sculptures on white plinths in front of paintings in a gallery.
  • Two black-and-white sculptures of faces, close, in a gallery.
  • A long colour canvas on a gallery wall, seen from the side.
  • A black-and-white canvas lit on a dark gallery wall.
  • A colour canvas on an easel on a garden lawn.
  • Two canvases on easels in a garden, black and white beside colour.
  • Two yellow paintings hung on a brick wall.
  • A blue and yellow painting hung on a brick wall.
  • Paintings hung along a brick wall beside a doorway and steps.
  • Canvases on easels across a garden, seen from among the plants.
  • Paintings hung on the brick front of a house, with an orchid beside the door.
  • Nicolás beside a large black-and-white and colour canvas.
  • Nicolás standing in a doorway beside the exhibition text.

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On film

Nothing in my work is final.

Still from the video: Nicolás Lapadula, pintor y muralista (MundoUR Entretenimiento).