Maximo Caminero was born in the Dominican Republic in 1962. His work is rooted in ancient Taino (first inhabitants of the Antilles), its forms have a resonance in the present with a modern view. The versatility of his paintings goes through the Caribbean horizon, touching without hiding the African legacy. He only captures the physical essence of these faraway desires.

When he got married, Maximo established his residence in Texas, in the United States, where he painted regularly since 1984. Accustomed to creating in the Design District of Miami, since 1990, he moved to Miami Beach in 1995, where works such as Diptych in Oblivion (1999) are born, in which abstract surrealism becomes evident, without neglecting his interest in the first settlers of his native island.

In 2000 he opened a studio on Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard, where he remained for 15 years. Through this space, artists of various nationalities, writers, poets, and intellectuals, who shared encounters with the artist, nourished themselves in the gatherings, the music, and the poetry while painting. These interactions produce in Caminero’s work a language capable of transmitting the invisible through abstract forms that flow in harmonic strokes and colors and that try to transmit to the observer the nature of its universe.

His work as he defines it: “It’s a reflection of thought, where we wander in a world more real, far beyond the man-made, everything is philosophy”, he says and adds, “nothing is found, man creates his dreams and realities and supports himself in fictional worlds. I do not escape it, I create my own world, my language. Although my story is recreated day by day, in the human struggle in its defects and effects, I express the subconscious as this shows sovereignty and unknown, my religion” he concludes, “is uncertain, because I also know, that I know nothing.”

Backed by a number of prestigious critics, his works have been auctioned at prestigious houses in America, and some acquired by South and North American museums.