Mario Dávalos (b. 1978) is an artist based in Santo Domingo whose work explores the shifting relationship between nature, perception, and the unseen. Working across painting and photography, his practice captures the tension between what is present and what escapes the frame: the interplay of memory and material; wilderness and construction. Davalos’ paintings share a sense of spaciousness. Built through layers of abstraction, they suggest maps, weather systems, or interior terrain — spaces where form dissolves into atmosphere. Across media, his work is marked by restraint, subtlety, and a deep engagement with how we situate ourselves within the visible world.In his photographic work, the Dominican artist travels to remote and ecologically sensitive geographies — Alaska, the Galápagos, the Amazon, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and Antarctica among many others — not to document, but to observe. His images resist narrative; they feel suspended, quiet, often emptied of human presence, like landscapes waiting to be remembered.
Mario holds a Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design in New York which he completed after graduating from the acclaimed School of Design CHAVÓN. His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Vogelsang Gallery in the Hamptons and Istanbul, District & Co, among many others.