At the age of 18, David Foote left his hometown of Caracas, Venezuela to pursue his life long passion of fine art and filmmaking.  He attended Parsons School of Design in which he received BFA’s in both Animation and Illustration.

David Foote has been hailed as a true auteur, heavily involved in every aspect of his films production: writing, cinematography, production design, music selection and costume design. Foote won the Angel City Chicago Film Festival’s Best Director Award for his work directing the short film “Make-up.” He has also directed and produced the experimental short film “Dining Hall 838” and the comedy documentary short “The Hampton’s Bikini Bloodbath” .

Foote has directed and produced three music videos: A.R.E Weapon’s “Weakest Ones,” The Sword’s “Winter Wolves” and Lansing – Dreiden’s “There’s a Line You Can Cross,” which have all aired on MTV, MTV2 and Fuse amongst other channels.

Directing is not Foote’s sole passion, he recently launched a line of luxury soaps: Jaboneria Marianella. He excels as a fine artist, motion graphics designer, animator, and fashion illustrator.  He has been recognized within the New York City community for his motion graphics work with The Bono Tribute at the Grammy’s, Elle Magazine, Loreal, MTV, the Spike TV GQ Awards, The 2003 Video Music Awards, Music Cares, MTV Jams, and MTV Espanol, amongst others. Foote’s fashion illustrations have appeared in multiple editorials including Women’s Wear Daily. Foote was also recently named: One of the 50 most stylish people in the world by the Daily Mini.

In April of 2008 David had his first  solo exhibit at Tribecas L Gallery studio presenting his painting series New Girls. The success of the presentation led to Foote's second show (in) Res-i-dence  hosted by Whitewall Magazine and Kwiat Diamonds, October 2nd . David most recently showed at Scope With Gana Art Gallery during Art Basel and in February 10th 2009 he unveiled: David Foote Limited Edition No 10, a collaboration with ten brands releasing limited edition products with Foote's prints and design as the overall theme.

Foote recently signed on to illustrate Lesley Blum's next book for children published by the illustrious printing house Knopf, and is in pre production for his cinematic writing and directing debut on the feature film - "Jaded".

David Foote currently resides in New York City.  To see the David Foote Fine Art website go to David Foote Stuio
Photograph by Beto Gutiérrez