J. Margulis is a Venezuelan-born, Miami-based mixed-media artist whose work explores perception, movement, and the relationship between language and form. In December 2025, the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art presented Speaking Volumes, his first solo museum exhibition, and acquired his work for its permanent collection, marking a significant milestone in his international career.

Drawing inspiration from the kinetic traditions of Latin American masters Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Rafael Soto, Margulis creates layered geometric constructions that transform with the viewer’s movement, turning observation into an active and participatory experience. Working primarily with Plexiglas, aluminum composite, automotive paint, and digitally fabricated components, he develops vibrant visual systems that merge color, light, structure, and motion.

His practice spans kinetic geometric reliefs, sculptural works, and text-based compositions in which language dissolves into pattern, allowing meaning to emerge through both reading and perception. Through repeated forms, layered structures, and dynamic color interactions, Margulis investigates themes of duality, uncertainty, and the role of the observer in shaping experience.

Margulis has exhibited extensively in galleries, museums, and international art fairs, including Art Basel Week, SOFA Chicago, and SP-Arte Brazil. His work is held in private and institutional collections, including the permanent collections of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art and Museo Ixchel. In 2018, he was recognized as the Southeast United States winner of the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series.

Today, Margulis continues to expand his visual language through kinetic geometry, sculptural experimentation, and emerging technologies that challenge the boundaries between object, image, space, and perception.