José Luis Puche (SPAIN, 1976) has a PhD in art history. He completed his doctorate at the University of Roma Tre in Rome (Italy) 2002-2003. Master's Degree in Cultural Communication from the University of Málaga 2007. Degree in engraving at the School of Arts in Alamería (Spain) in 2012. His career as an artist took off in 2005 when he held his first solo show in his home city Málaga. By 2008, just three years later, he was able to break into the international scene.

 
In J. L. Puche's work, drawing, stands as a territory of poetic resistance, where matter and water merge into a surface of great formal tension, the work growing at the same pace as it is destroyed. Its formal uniqueness lies in a technique that combines precision and fading, as if each stroke contained a breath that oscillates between memory and the present through the palimpsest of its layers. Each piece thus becomes a narrative loop, a cycle that exposes the beauty and fragility of human gesture in the face of mechanisms of domination. J. L. Puche's work does not represent, but rather activates a reflection on energy, resistance, and the contemporary condition of the body.

During his career, Puche has exhibited in prestigious venues like Centre Pompidou, CAC Málaga or the Sydney Opera House, where he was the only Spanish artist invited to take part in the group show 9 Hours Underground. He has also exhibited at fairs such as the YIA Art Fair (Paris) or the Basel Scope Art Show in New York and Switzerland. In the last few years, Puche has exhibited in Madrid, Istanbul, Milan, Palma de Mallorca, Brussels or Portland. He has also won several prizes and distinctions, including the international Emerging Artists Award in 2016 (Dubai) and the first prize of the International Art Award Manuel Ángeles Ortiz (Jaen University). His creations could also be seen in 2021 at the University of Jaen and Córdoba. He opened in 2022 the solo exhibition 'The Legacy of Water' at the Olsen Gallery in Sydney and exhibited in Dubai . In 2024 he had produced the scenography of the musical 'Gypsy' directed by tha actor and director, Antonio Banderas and made a large-scale mural commissioned by the city council of Torremolinos. Recently, Puche has participated in Urvanity  Madrid) 2025.