Mario González de la Nuez

Mario González de la Nuez (b. 1993, Havana) is a London-based artist whose practice centres on printmaking and works on paper. Since relocating to the UK in 2015, he has been an active participant in the city’s printmaking scene, collaborating with institutions such as London Print Studio and Artichoke. His approach to the medium blends traditional techniques with a conceptual sensitivity, engaging with themes that are both personal and universally resonant.

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González de la Nuez’s work investigates the layered nature of memory, particularly as it intersects with ideas of displacement, time, and identity. Rather than presenting fixed narratives, his images suggest moments in flux—where the boundaries between past and present, real and imagined, begin to blur. By drawing on autobiographical references and emotional topographies, he creates spaces that feel at once intimate and expansive, inviting viewers to reflect on their own relationships to memory and place.

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A central aspect of his recent work lies in the physical and symbolic act of transformation. In particular, his drypoints utilise repetition, folding, and layering as both process and metaphor. These gestures speak to cycles of migration and return, evoking landscapes that are not simply geographic but deeply psychological. Through this thoughtful material engagement, he offers a quiet, compelling meditation on how we carry, reshape, and sometimes conceal the places that have shaped us.