Ricardo Picón

Visual Artist

New York

Ricardo Picón is a Venezuelan photographer and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. His work explores the intersection of landscape, memory, and visual spirituality, using techniques such as infrared cameras, handcrafted lenses, and glass fractals. Since his beginnings in the 1990s with the electronic project EOE, his practice has evolved toward a poetic and sensory photography, deeply shaped by the emotional geography of Venezuela. His work has been featured in publications such as Vogue Accessories, The New York Times, and Architectural Digest, and he has collaborated with firms like Sotheby’s and Compass. In his most recent series, Caribe Oscura, Picón intertwines experimental photography and sound archives to evoke a dreamlike, vibrant, and ghostly Caribbean.

Artworks (10)

Hola! Ya han debido recibir las 5 fotos impresas por lightprint y 5 libritos de blurb. Los 5 libritos de Blurb llegaron el 5 de Noviembre Las 5 fotos de Lightprint han debido llegar a Miami - me aprece q estan listos para "pick up" pero no encuentro que diga ninguna dirección, yo puse la de Miami q me dieron Descripción de la serie Caribe Oscura Exhibition Statement Caribe Oscura Photographs by Ricardo Picón Presented at El Consulado’s Kiosko NADA Art Fair, Miami – December 2–6, 2025 Caribe Oscura is a body of work that explores a tropical dreamscape where nature and nostalgia collapse into one another — iltered through heat, distortion, and ghostly light. Rooted in the luminous yet dissonant landscapes of coastal Venezuela, these photographs investigate the psychological atmosphere of place and memory, rather than its literal geography. Composed through experimental techniques such as infrared imaging, fractal ilters, and tilt-shift lenses, the images operate between perception and iction. Color, texture, and light are altered to evoke not only a visual experience but a psychic state — one in which the Caribbean is remembered, reimagined, and refracted through layers of ecological, cultural, and emotional history. In this installation, presented as part of a Venezuelan-style kiosko, the work shifts format — printed as posters, accessible in scale, and situated within a collective context. It invites a slower gaze, one shaped by warmth, distance, and the blurred edges of remembrance.