Ernesto Camacho Clavijo Artist based in Barcelona

Ernesto Camacho Clavijo is the grandson of the painter and poster artist Ángel Camacho Escribá (1915-1980), famous for being the author of the giant posters that adorned the facades of theatres and cinemas in Barcelona.

After graduating in journalism from the University of Bellaterra, he enrolled in Fine Arts, but had to abandon his studies for family reasons.

It was at the beginning of 2000 when he began his career as a painter. At that time, influenced by the Pop Surrealism movement, he exhibited his work in different venues in the alternative circuit of Barcelona (Sala Fénix, La Bonita, Bukowski, Makinavaja) and different comic shops. He also participated in collective exhibitions of rising talents such as the one held at the Can Sisteré Modern Art Centre “Sky´s the limit”, where one of his works was selected as the poster announcing the event. Or the call for illustrators from Barcelona Drap Art at the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona).

But little by little he refined his style until he achieved his own personality and it was in the 2010s when he exhibited in commercial galleries and halls reaching a larger public. The Ateneo de Barcelona or halls and galleries such as Barnadas, Parés, La trama, Pigment or la Galería, host his work.

Currently, reproductions of part of his work can be found in different shops in Barcelona and since 2022 in Gaudí’s prestigious Casa Batlló, La Pedrera and the MNAC (National Museum of Art of Catalonia) where he has already sold more than a thousand copies.