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Augusto Yanacopulos

Visual Artist • Set Designer • Lighting Designer

Current Exhibition

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Sacred Madness:

A Retrospective

  • Friday, June 5, 2026

  • 7:00 PM  10:00 PM

Augusto Yanacopulus

Augusto Yanacopulos is a Chilean-born multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago whose work explores mythology, surrealism, memory, and the psychological dimensions of human experience through painting, stage design, and visual storytelling.

“My paintings explore the surreal — the hidden layers of psychological truth that reside just beneath the surface of everyday life.”

Selected
Works

Through oil painting, theatrical imagery, and surreal visual narratives, Augusto Yanacopulos creates immersive compositions that challenge the boundaries between reality, memory, mythology, and the subconscious.

Stage Design
& Theater

In addition to his work as a visual artist, Augusto Yanacopulos has developed an extensive career in theater as a set designer, scenic painter, lighting designer, and actor. As co-founder of Aguijón Theater of Chicago, his theatrical work has become an essential part of the company’s visual identity and artistic legacy.

Highlighted Productions

Yerma  |  The House of Bernarda Alba  |  Antígona Pérez  |  Kiev  |  La Gran Tirana

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Press & Media

Selected articles, interviews, exhibition publications, and media features documenting Augusto Yanacopulos’s artistic career and multidisciplinary contributions to visual arts and theater.

Angels Boleros and Other Aberrations

Critical Essay by Rey Emmanuel Andújar

Summer 2011

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Crossing cultural

boundaries since 1989.

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Sacred Madness:

A Retrospective.

5 June, 2026

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Teatro vacío, estudio lleno. Augusto Yanacopulos y su arte durante la pandemia. - 9 April, 2021

Contact the Artist

For exhibitions, collaborations, commissions, interviews, or professional inquiries, please get in touch.

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