Born
Delicias, Chihuahua, México, 2002
Resides
Lives and Works in Orem, Utah, USA
CV:
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Material Gallery, Utah Indigenous Fashion Week, Salt Lake City, Utah USA
2023
Odd Duck Studio, Friends of Friends, Provo, Utah, USA
O.S.D. 1, Orem, Utah, USA
2021
Local Colors of Utah, Artist of the Month, Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Collection
Braulio Emmanuel Lujan's artworks have been acquired and are part of several prestigious private collections both domestically and internationally.
Biography
2002: Born to parents Israel Rodriguez Lujan and Claudia Yarida Guerra Barrientos shortly after his brother Bryan Moises Lujan Guerra. He was walking at 8 months crying and quiet a very emotional child.
2008: Braulio’s family and him immigrated to the USA using the US passports of Mexican Americans, both his brothers Kevin and Bryan where stopped in the their crossing. Braulio on the other hand chosen to sleep though the whole crossing through the US Mexico boarder.
2009: Braulio started attending Westmore Elementary starting in the first grade, after his sister Michelle Naomi Patino Guerra was born.
2011: Braulio and his family moved back to their home town for US citizenship. in his time there Braulio experience the violence of narco cartels after the murder of the local trafficker “El Guason.” Braulio moved back to finish the 5th grade in the USA after reciving his green card from the US Mexican consulate. moments after flying back his older brother, Kevin Israel Lujan Guerra, was found cutting his wrist in the families house’s basement.
2015: After watching Just Kidding News since 2013 his brother Kevin was stabbed at 3 a.m. while Braulio was watching one JKN’s videos. Shortly after he met ex best friend D.R.
2016: Braulio started drawing and painting seriously after attending an art class at Lakeridge Junior High. He also started dating his ex A.F. After a short relationship long distance relationship with a girl named kennia.
2017: Braulio chose to leave A.F. due to her dislike in him smoking weed, shortly after braulio started dating Mariana Andersen taking his art to an everyday experience.
2019: Braulio graduated High school with a 1.8 GPA taking AP art twice, due to his struggling to stay in class he chose to graduate with district diploma and not taking a degree with the schools name. Shortly after he started to work his first job at his local Walmart. spending a lot of time painting abstract in his homes little apartment.
2020: Braulio left work for school at a private computer science school, Neumont College of Computer Science, leaving unsuccessful with $40,000 in debt, leaving due to the stereotypical culture nurtured at the school, he started attended UVU.
2021: Starting to work at UPS after his unsuccessful time at college, he started to experience hard emotions within work and saved 1200 dollars to fly out to Paris, after a trip to New York with his friend Jessica. Due to emotions, he had trouble in New York failing to complete his trip due to his mental stress and having had to come back home after his arrest and hospitalization due to vandalism at the airport.
2022: Retying to move again this time to the big apple, to pursue his dreams he ended up having to come back again after another hospitalization for doing his graffiti and jumping into the water at a pier/ train staton after being homelessly manic for severals days; ending up coming back home, the stress and mental illness kept bothering him ultimately leading 3 more hospitalization and a suicide attempt at the end of the year. Braulio claims the stess was mostly from the difficultly it was for him to find any solid plan and path for his life and the unexpected hardship of life after high school and delayed expected experiences.
2023: Attend college at SLCC after his struggle with mental illness he was able to complete his classes with a 2.3GPA, and was out of trouble spending his time painting, doing schoolwork and attending art events along side therapy with Kerry who he met due to his theft charges from stealing bread and soda after escaping his stay at the hospital in a scared state due to PTSD.
2024: Leaving painting for the year braulio focused on developing a movie script witch he now is working on. 2024 was also the time he took to plan out an ambitious life plan for his life.
2025: After leaving school summer 2024 he experienced sadness due to the lack of contact from a girl he liked, which ultimately leaded to his family and psychiatrist hospitalizing him on separate occasion at the end of 2024. He also has to 2 active charges witch he served jail time and is now working with the Utah Justice System to clear his record for removing the insect screen of this girls house, after believing her family had left the house abandoned cutting off his relationship with D.R. After his release he taken up drawing again. and is expecting to finish college this year. And is now focusing on bettering his life after a hard time since high-school.
2025: Braulio had a short relationship with a new girl in April and is currently working at PETIQ and is wanting to travel the usa with permission from his probation office. Braulio is working with his friend Jesus Muños to pursue his happiness and goals, and has a passion for operations and transportation energy plants and is looking for work to share his art with the world, he is also attending AA meetings along with his court requirements.