Ricardo Rodriguez Cosme (b. 1992, Valencia, Spain) is a painter and printmaker working across realism, figuration, and collaborative practice. He studied Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, completing his final year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples.

His paintings — oil on canvas, often rendered in black and white — move between classical realism and contemporary subject matter. The absence of color is deliberate: a means of distilling sentiment and arriving at something he considers timeless. Within this restraint, his work carries a tension between control and chaos, stillness and velocity, strength and vulnerability.

Ricardo's practice is defined by accumulation — layers of detail built toward a unified image that holds contradiction without resolving it. He describes his aim as the creation of visual, cultural, and historical hybrids: works that draw from classical tradition while remaining rooted in the present. The result is figurative painting that asks the viewer to sit with ambiguity, and find coherence in contrast.