Miguel Conesa Osuna is an extraordinarily talented painter, born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in September 29^th, 1952. He was the oldest son of an Architect, who taught him perspective since the age of 12.

His early education begun at age 10 with the art professor Carola Colón, at the old Colegio Ponceño de Varones on Comercio Street in Ponce.

He studied drawing techniques under the Spanish Painter José Azaustre Muró and participated of the "Talleres Sabatinos" (a government funded Art program for talented Young Students back in 1970-72), under the guidance of Tommy Albert Pagán. He participated at the first "Arte Joven Royal bank of Canada" exhibition held at their branch in Hato Rey in 1971. That same year he won an Art Scholarship from The Luis A. Ferré Foundation to study Art at the Catholic University. The following summer he took Figure Drawing classes with live model with the Puerto Rican painter Frank Cervonni, Watercolor under August Marín and Mural painting under Rafael Ríos at Artes Plásticas in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

His studies were interrupted by the draft military service the following year and served in the military, stationed at Ft. Gordon, Georgia, for two years. While in the military, he was trained as a Graphic Artist. After his honorable military discharged he attended to Augusta College, in Augusta Georgia, where he lived for 12 years. After his military service, he also worked for Civil Services as a Graphic Artist developing skills in printing media techniques and linear drawings, which allowed him later in life to make a living as a Graphic Artist.

Conesa became use to paint directly from nature by the influenced of several American realists, such as Andrew Wyeth, Phillip Pearlstein, Jack Beal, Ivan Albright and the British Lucian Freud which gave him a great of in nature to his subject. The Pre-Raphaelites and the surrealist’s painters such as Salvador Dalí,Rene Magritte and Yves Tangury also influenced him a great deal during his formative years.

During those years, he traveled extensively and even went to the Soviet Union back in 1976 before the Perestroika. He has the opportunity to see Russian Art and visited the Hermitage and some artist’s studios from which he sensed that the Russian country was heading toward new changes.

Although he had formal instruction since the age of 10, his graftmanship and technical efficiency were largely self-acquired. His development as a painter was phenomenally rapid, for his talent caught the attention of Antonio Molina, former art critic, historian, writer, painter, art lecturer and president of the Puerto Rican Cultural Affairs Committee for UNESCO. Molina included Conesa’s early accomplishments at the "La Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico" (volume number 8), which talks about the history of the Visual Arts in Puerto Rico.

Ever since Conesa’s first one-man exhibit back in 1972 at the age of 19 at the Ponce Municipal Building, he had staged 46 exhibitions till 1997 and participated in over 100 collective shows in the USA, Puerto Rico and Europe. He has been included in "Who in American Art" since 1983.

Conesa’s method of painting and style convey a lot of discipline. He paints either from nature, living models or photography (in some cases) to collect the information he needs in order to materialize his visual ideas. He does several dozens of quick and slowly rendered studies before the making of a final work.

Painting and drawing has been an obsessive thing for Conesa who had actively been producing amazing works since the age of 16. In recent years he produces around 4 to 6 large canvas a year. He does at least 12 to 16 works in the size of 17" x 20" on canvas and paper and few other sizes, including small works between 8-1/2" x 10" and 11" x 17" which are in many cases small detailed ideas for larger works. He had incorporated digital works printed by laser which he glue to his canvas in process creating a unique and rich texture either on paper or on canvas.

He does several dozen of fast works on paper or on canvas of preliminaries, from which he chooses some of them for a slow detailed work. He had created his own iconography of images and symbols that identify his work, which had been modified and enhanced through the years. His symbols had emerged from his different experiences through his life and most of his works are biographical in the whole sense of the spoken word.

He paints in any kind of format large or small. His small or miniature works are impressive like pieces of jewelry.

His picture’s tittles are long statements of ideas very much like a poem or a short story.

Conesa did a picture back in 1977-78 (36" x 46") and a second version of the same subject back in 1979-83 (44" x 95"), using a tapestry format in which he conveys to the observer the enigma of life and death. Conesa gave to the first work the following tittle:

"There was a man named John who died of old age. No one came to his funeral. No one neither loved, knew or understood him. Strange hands brings him flowers now and then, no flower ever fades at his grave, not even in winter…"