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Ulises Platas
Fine artist, architect, and Oaxacan visionary.
A fine artist and architect whose work is distinguished by a neo-expressionist and abstract language of powerful gestural force. Trained at UABJO and influenced by renowned masters, he has developed a practice that merges art and architecture.
His career includes exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, where he has consolidated a contemporary vision of Oaxacan identity through a distinctive pictorial language.
ALEA IACTA EST
The work of Ulises Platas features intense abstract expressionism influenced by his Zapotec roots.
Temporary exhibition at
Hotel Quinta Real Oaxaca Mexico
2025
About Ulises Platas Art
Each stroke is a ritual: a dialogue between shadows, spirits, and the urban chaos that shapes him. He does not paint what he sees, but what insists on being revealed—the primitive, the untamed, the human trace that endures beneath all order. His work dissolves the linear and unveils the truth that emerges from the collision of color, fire, and instinct.
ALEA
ACTA
EST
Temporary exhibition
There are moments when there is no turning back. Moments where the decision has already been made—where chance ceases to be uncertainty and becomes destiny. “Alea iacta est” — the die is cast.
In this new exhibition, Ulises Platas immerses us in a raw, gestural, and deeply intuitive visual language. Through layers, strokes, and contrasts, his work moves between control and chaos, between the rational and the visceral. Each piece is a breaking point, a declaration of risk, an act of complete surrender to the creative process.
Discover a curated selection of original works, limited editions, and hand-crafted pieces by contemporary Oaxacan artist Ulises Platas. Each creation is a fusion of raw emotion, ancestral memory, and bold neo-expressionist energy—powerful visual artifacts born from the colors, rhythms, and rituals of Mexico.
Temporary exhibition Alea Iacta Est
2026
