Jacobo Borges (Caracas, 1931) is a Venezuelan painter who also worked as a draughtsman, stage designer and filmmaker. His career, which began in mid-twentieth-century Caracas, placed him among the Venezuelan artists with the greatest international profile in the 1960s. Before devoting himself fully to art he worked as a lithographer and advertising draughtsman, and as a young man he came into contact with the painter Armando Reverón.
In 1952 he won a young painters' competition with La lámpara y la silla, which earned him a study scholarship in Paris. After returning home he received several national prizes, including the drawing prize in 1961 and the painting prize in 1963 for La coronación de Napoleón. He represented Venezuela at the Venice Biennale in 1958 and 1964, and his work circulated through museums in the United States and Latin America.
In 1965 he set painting aside for five years to explore film, photography and installation. His project Imagen de Caracas, presented in 1967 to mark the city's four hundredth anniversary, defined that period. He returned to canvas in 1971 with series of drawings and acrylics. The Guggenheim Museum in New York acquired his work Figura en una habitación. La comedora de helados in 1966.