Jorge Vera
Jorge Vera is a contemporary American photographer born in Lima, Peru.
He studied photography at Webster University,1983-1987, and mixed media at Meramec College, 1989-1992, in St. Louis, Missouri.His first solo show "Seldom Seen", opened at Mark Twain Gallery in 1989 and subsequently in 1990 at, Artists in the Corner Gallery in St. Louis.
Vera was awarded a studio residency, 1996-2001, at Art Center South Florida, now Oolite Arts. During this period his work is exhibited throughout the United States. Venues included the Bass Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Orlando Museum of Art, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, the Florida State Capitol-Tallahassee, Indiana State University, West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center, West Virginia University, and Caelum Gallery in New York City.
Vera's work was featured in the traveling exhibit, "Contemporary Latin American Artists", funded by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. The show traveled for 18 months to 16 museums and galleries throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States. While in Florida he was represented by the Daniel Azoulay Gallery in Wynwood Arts District in Miami.
His solo show, "urbanismo-visions of self-exile and urban life”, opened at Webster University's May Gallery, now Kooyumjian Gallery, August, 2010 and subsequently at Galeria Vertice, Jan, 2011, in Lima, Peru.
In 2013 Vera founded Lima Foto Factory, a photography school at the mansion of The Marquis de la Riva (El Marques de la Riva) in Lima's historic center.
Other group shows include, "Los Seis" (The Six), August 6, 2013 at Lima Foto Factory and "30 years on the Road" at ArtCenter/South Florida's 30th anniversary retrospective exhibition, November, 2014.
In January 2025 his work on Peru's Andean pilgrimage of Qoyllur Rit'i (Snow Star) was featured in Terrain.org and prior to that on NBC News as well as in the memoir "Melted Away" (LSU Press, 2024) by author Barbara Drake-Vera.
