José Bonilla (Venezuela, 1982) is a visual artist based in Brno, Czech Republic. Trained in film and audiovisual direction at ESCINETV (Caracas), his practice developed through sustained engagement with mountain environments across Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, an experience that remains central to his work, both as a source of direct observation and as a framework for understanding forces such as pressure, tension, propagation, deformation, and instability.

His work unfolds across two interconnected areas. In geometric abstraction, he constructs modular systems that operate at the threshold between order and disorganisation, integrating error and chance as active structural variables. The resulting works exist at rest and become perceptually activated through the viewer’s displacement, generating optical vibrations and spatial undulations without mechanical means. In photographic assemblages, photography is treated as three-dimensional spatial material: images taken directly from the field are decomposed and reorganised into layered structures that introduce depth, parallax, and time into the viewing experience, transforming frontal observation into physical traversal.

Bonilla has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, the Alliance Française (Caracas), and the Embassy of Uruguay (Caracas), among other venues. His work has been recognised at the Wiki Loves Earth Photo Festival Venezuela (First and Third Place, 2016), the Ascent Festival (Best Landscape, 2014), and viewbug.com (Talent in Focus Award, 2024). He has undertaken photographic expeditions to Roraima and Kukenan Tepuy, the Venezuelan Andes, the Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Patagonia (Argentina), the coast of Rocha (Uruguay), and the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Bonilla is currently developing BKS, Bonilla Kinetic Systems, a practice focused on kinetic systems for architectural and corporate environments, including retractable roof structures, lobby sculptures, kinetic ceiling installations, and acoustic panels.