Jonathan Rosas builds his work from intuition, gesture, and material. His pieces—often born from experimental processes—operate as surfaces where color, texture, and accident find an unexpected balance. For Rosas, painting is a living territory: a space where the spontaneous and the deliberate coexist without hierarchy.

Trained at the Fábrica de Artes y Oficios (FARO Oriente), Rosas has developed a multidisciplinary practice that includes cartonería, recycled-material sculpture, printmaking, and set and prop construction, and workshops in Germany, Romania, and at the ASTRA Museum. As a master cartonero, his work creating alebrijes—a cornerstone of Mexican popular art—has led him to participate annually in the Monumental Alebrije Parade along Paseo de la Reforma, developing large-scale works that combine imagination, craftsmanship, and a deep respect for traditional techniques, and has contributed to large-scale offerings and model-making competitions. Parallel to this, he has been an active figure in Mexico City’s independent and underground art scenes, contributing to exhibitions, installations, and cultural projects that enrich the artistic landscape from its most authentic margins.

Rosas also reinterprets symbols of military history and aviation as metaphors for memory, precision, and national identity. In works such as P-47M Thunderbolt Escuadrón 201, he revisits the iconic aircraft flown by Mexican pilots during World War II, transforming it into an emblem of courage, discipline, and humanity. Executed with meticulous detail—often in oil on manta—these paintings blend the aesthetics of technical realism with a sensibility that emphasises light, atmosphere, and the tactile presence of metal.

In the intersection between machine and landscape, Rosas proposes a dialogue between industrial modernity and historical nostalgia, between mechanical power and the fragility of remembrance. The result transcends documentary representation: a silent homage to those who flew beyond duty, and a visual testament to sacrifice, mastery, and the enduring beauty of flight.