Eugenio Espinoza was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation the field of Fine Arts, in the category of Creative Arts, offered to citizens and residents of the United States. The Guggenheim Foundation has organized 93 editions of this fellowship program and is currently offering two calls: one for citizens or residents of the United States and Canada, and another for citizens or residents of Latin American and Caribbean countries. The candidates are selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants and about 175 fellowships are granted every year. Born in 1950 in the city of San Juan de Los Moros in Central Venezuela and currently based in Florida, in the US, Eugenio Espinoza studied at the Escuela de Arte Cristóbal Rojas and at the Instituto de Diseño Fundación Neumann in Caracas, Venezuela. A constant element in Eugenio Espinoza's work is the permanent tension generated between the space and the structure. The raw canvas tensed on the stretcher, along with horizontal and vertical lines, produce a duality between geometric and organic forms, something that according to Espinoza is central for the "deconstruction of the renaissance grid insofar as the point of departure for the exploration of the paradigms of geometric abstraction and its direct relationship with Venezuelan modern art." Widely known for his Impenetrable, exhibited at the Ateneo in 1972, Eugenio Espinoza represented Venezuela in the 1985 São Paulo Biennial. His most conceptual works are part of prestigious international collections like those belonging to Tate Modern (UK), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogota; Fundación Gego, Caracas; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York City, Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, among other private and institutional collections. The fellowship was established in 1925 by US senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife in memory of their son, John Simon Guggenheim, who died in 1922 when he was only 17 years old. It was conceived with the objective of encouraging the development, and understanding at the international level, of scientific, educational, and artistic endeavors in the US.