Papayon is a U.S.-born Latin American contemporary artist based in Houston, Texas, with deep ties to Mexico. His work emerges from a sustained commitment to making as a way of thinking — through presence, repetition, and material engagement rather than explanation.

Working across mixed media, Papayon approaches the studio as a space of insistence. Each body of work reflects a willingness to remain with uncertainty, allowing surfaces to retain traces of time, pressure, and decision.

Rather than pursuing clarity or comfort, the work privileges honesty in process and tension in form. Images are not intended to instruct or resolve, but to be encountered — slowly, directly, and without mediation.

Papayon’s practice continues to evolve through sustained making, returning repeatedly to the same questions from different angles. The work does not seek to resolve them, but to hold them.