Javier Gomez was born in Panama and has lived in Costa Rica, Milan, and Miami before settling in New York in 2004. He has travelled to more than 30 countries. He studied photography at NYU and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and went on to work with fashion photographer Steven Klein.
He has become known for photographing urban architecture and organic objects in a surreal and abstract way, influenced by the principles of sacred geometry. He accentuates colour, volume, and texture to blur the lines of nature and the abstract with familiar scenes. In 2016, his first foray into furniture design produced a line of diaphanous Lucite tables inset with mandalas, containing kaleidoscopic photographs of flowers, which earned him a Rising Talent award at Maison et Objet Americas.
He now divides his time between Paris, Lisbon, and New York, where he focuses on his ventures JGHOME, JGSOLUTIONS, and Portuguese Quartier. A Panamanian film crew is documenting his multifaceted life. He aspires to create scholarships for talented children in Latin America and elsewhere.
