`Painting as methodology for the production of images is the primary motivation of Juan Araujo's work. His motive is to question why a given image can be turned int a pictorical image, with all that this implies: into an image of a special kind, whose condition is like that of an epidermis, and in which the depositing of layers, or the overlapping of veils, has no ther existance or meaning than which exists embedded in the historicity of its own imbrication. For Araujo, the production of a painting must be anchored in a pre-existing image, in an ecological process of permanent recycling that has no other purpose than that spool of fiction contained within the image.'[Delfim Sardo, El Jardin de los senderos que se bifurcan]
Recent individual exhibitions include: Measurable distances of space and air, PEER, London, UK (2019); El Jardin de los Senderos que se Bifurcan, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal (2018); Walled-in shut, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2016); Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2015); Measurable Distances of Space and Air, PEER, London (2019); El Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan, Culturgest, Lisboa (2018); walled-in shut, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (2016); Untitled, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2015); Mineirianas, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte (2013); La ilusión de la transparencia, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2012); A Través, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela (2008).
His works are included in important public collections such as: MoMA Museum of Modern Art of New York, USA; Tate Collection, England; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Espanha; CACI Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brazil.