Our core mission is promoting diversity and optimism: through art, we support projects that improve the quality of life of people and communities that find themselves in vulnerable situations and that are at risk of exclusion. Color is the driver of change and transformation in all of our activities.
The Coloring the World Foundation aims to be a beacon for social diversity and improving the quality of people’s lives, with our own distinctive identity based on the use of color as a symbol for diversity and equality. We strive to imagine a future full of diversity, color and social justice.
The CTWF is a product of the philosophy and world view transmitted by the artist Okuda San Miguel, its honorary president and number-one ambassador, through his work.
After many years using art to raise the profile of social projects and good causes, Okuda San Miguel and the Ink and Movement team decided to set up the Coloring the World Foundation, joining forces to help build a better world.
Estudiantes
Madrid, Spain. 2019
11 mirages to the freedom
Morocco, Africa. 2016
Desirée Vila
Pontevedra / Madrid, Spain. 2019
Hospital Gregorio Marañón
Madrid, Spain. 2018
“I believe in the transformational power of art and its potential to improve people and their surroundings.”
With a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Madrid’s Complutense University, Okuda San Miguel’s unique iconographic language of geometric structures and multicolored patterns have made him one of the world’s best-known urban artists.
His paintings can be found in streets and on buildings worldwide. As an artist, he is coveted for his large-scale interventions, such as Kaos Temple (2015), which transformed a new skate park housed in the building of an old church into a showcase for contemporary art.
Okuda’s work blends multicolored geometric architectures with organic shapes, anonymous bodies, headless animals and symbols that provoke reflection among his viewers. His style can be described as Pop Surrealism, all the while staying true to its roots in the streets.
Okuda’s works often raise existentialist questions and reflect on the universe, the infinite, the meaning of life and the contradictions of the system in which we live. Through his creations, Okuda San Miguel lays bare the conflict between modernity and our roots, of the human condition itself.
As a non-profit foundation, we are governed by the Spanish legislation on Foundations (Law 50/2002).
The Foundation’s board comprises a group of dedicated individuals who are passionate about promoting art to change the world in which we live.
We also receive permanent support from Ink and Movement, which provides its professional services to the Coloring the World Foundation.
Okuda San Miguel
Artist
Óscar Sanz
CEO IAM-Okuda
Alejandra Kreisler
Development Kreisler Gallery and member of IAM-Okuda
Juan Merín
Sustainable Development Consultant
Juan Pablo Zino
Finance Director
Diego Figueroa R.
Of Counsel at DLA Piper LLP US
Celia Tejada
International entrepreneur
Ana Llorente
Director of International Accounts and Exhibitions IAM-Okuda
Diego Carnicero
Creative Director IAM-Okuda
