Miguel Gañán is an aeronautical engineer by training and an origami artist by vocation. His work focuses on tessellations, a branch of origami that explores complex geometric patterns folded from a single sheet of paper. In this universe of twists, symmetries, and repetitions, Gañán finds a synthesis of art and mathematics: tessellations allow him to transform a logical structure into something beautiful and surprising.
He began designing his own models in 2017, after years of self-taught study and experimentation with modular forms. Since then, he has developed a prolific body of work that includes both flat and three-dimensional tessellations, boxes, and clasps. He has published three books on the subject —Gira y Tesela, Giros sobre giros, and Giros sobre cajas— which combine theory, diagrams, and creative proposals, and was nominated for the Joisel Award 2024 at the Convention for Creators (CFC).
Gañán has participated in numerous exhibitions and events both in Argentina and abroad. He has shown his work at the Origami Argentina conventions, the Spanish Association of Paperfolding, and at fairs such as Expoartistas at the Centro Cultural Borges. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Origami Museum in Colonia del Sacramento (Uruguay) and of traveling exhibitions organized in collaboration with the Argentine-Japanese Cultural Foundation. In June 2026, he will exhibit his works for three months at EMOZ (Escuela Museo del Origami de Zaragoza).
His constantly evolving practice proposes a blend of design, abstraction, and precision, in dialogue with an ancient tradition reimagined in the present.
