I, who am nobody, suffer from wanting so much,….

Jazzy Dope

I, who am nobody, suffer from wanting so much, from needing everything. I blame capitalism, but it’s not systemic — it’s my fucking selfishness, my urge to water, destroy and inhale the light from everything. Always unsatisfied. Thirsting for the blood of all that bleeds.

2024

Oil, spray, solvent, pencil and biro on primed canvas

65 cm x 50 cm / 25.59 in x 19.68 in

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Jazzy Dope — Julián Díez — is a Madrid-based figurative painter, writer and muralist whose work starts from a simple and radical premise: painting as an excuse to tell stories. His own. The ones that weigh on him, attract him and burn him.

Rooted in graffiti — from which he inherited his artistic name — and nourished by comics, advertising and popular culture, Jazzy Dope builds a strongly autobiographical body of work where text and image are inseparable. Each painting is a frozen instant, a fragment of life inhabited by characters made of his blood, his bones and his ideas. His technique is deliberately raw and layered: oil, spray, solvent, pencil and biro, frequently all at once.

For the collector, Jazzy Dope represents something the art market values increasingly: a completely original voice with a narrative so powerful that his works are impossible to forget. His exhibition pace — solo shows, international fairs, residencies across Europe and the Americas — and his 2026 SUMMA Prize at JUSTMAD26 trace an ascending trajectory that can still be joined from the beginning.