TIANO SOLANA

Argentine Artist | Based in Punta Cana

A painter by training and vocation, Tiano Solana began his artistic journey in 1988. His visual language, refined over nearly four decades, bridges technical rigor with a profound sensitivity toward the human condition, keeping pictorial research as the central axis of his life.

Based in the Dominican Republic for over twenty years, his work has evolved through an unbreakable bond with his everyday life. As a surfer, Tiano finds in the ocean an intimate connection that translates into a fluid and vital brushstroke. This way of life nurtures an anthropological exploration that now manifests in his current series, Caribbean Epiphany: Anthropology of the Smile. In this body of work, he documents the virtue of the smile as an essential manifestation of the region’s cultural soul. This vision is the result of a long personal journey, marked by periods of deep introspection and social work in Argentina, India, and Uruguay.

With a solid international career, his work has been exhibited in the Dominican Republic, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, and India. Today, his pieces are part of private collections in over 25 countries, consolidating an artistic vision that transforms observation into a celebration of life.

ABOUT THE WORK

My work emerges from a conscious choice of attention: training the eye to perceive what sustains life in its simplest and most profound expression. Light, joy, movement, and nature do not appear in my work as idealized concepts, but as real, active forces that shape human experience.

My practice is oriented toward what builds, orders, and generates presence. It is not about denying the complexity of existence, but about deliberately affirming an orientation toward the luminous as an act of inner coherence and human responsibility — understood as a search for the transparency of being toward original goodness, that profound bond between purity of heart and serenity.

The human figure and the movement that traverse my canvases speak of expression, connection, and rhythm. They form a quiet acknowledgment: beauty exists, reveals itself in the everyday, and can be recognized without excess.

I conceive painting as a space of encounter. My works seek to generate resonance, calm, and vitality — places where the gaze can rest and reconnect with what is essential within itself. Rather than representing scenes, I propose sensory experiences that invite an encounter with beauty as a shared territory.