Angel Otero (born 1981 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a contemporary visual artist specializing in painting.

Otero's work is characterized by an interest in personal history, expressionistic abstraction, and Spanish Baroque painterly traditions. He lives and works in Brooklyn but splits his time between New York and Chicago. He is represented by Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York City and Kavi Gupta in Chicago.

Otero was born and raised in Santurce in San Juan Puerto Rico. At age 24, he moved to Chicago to earn a Master's of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

His relationship with his family, his life in Puerto Rico, and his personal history figure greatly into his artwork. Stylistically, Otero pra...