Jaime Pe'ez was born in Mexico to a Guatemalan father and mother. The name "Pe'ez" comes from contracting the surnames of both parents (Pérez López) as a way of honoring them for having given him, unknowingly, the inspirational material with which he transforms, with form and figure, the vicissitudes of life.

For Pe'ez, painting is that space where he experiences a different possibility of being and flowing as a "fish in the water" in this world. Drawing was something that was not in his memories, but there was someone who reminded him that when he was 3 or 4 years old, it was his favorite game, a game that was later suspended, and that he later took up again as an activity of self-expression, artistically. 

Pe'ez visualizes painting as something that moves, that grows, that transforms through time. He recognizes what is painted, first of all, as something captive that demands a place, attention, expression. As such, the gestures that unfold through the painting give account of its living condition, as if it were the trace of another. 

Pe'ez's work with painting is for him a way to reencounter those moments and constitutive elements of his being. For him, painting is a way of writing that begins with the interaction of two necessary conditions: having an idea and not knowing how it will end. Once the painting is on the canvas, he, with different eyes, returns to it to read and capture that hidden meaning, to detach himself from it, to let it flow, to let it go... to inspire anyone who wants to.

In order for his works to see the light, Pe'ez has chosen to exhibit them in public and private spaces, organizing personalized group and individual art gatherings. In this way, his artistic work goes from being something intimate and particular to become something that motivates others to get started in some artistic endeavor, to perform again this or that suspended activity, or to contemplate art in different, unexpected, never-ending ways.