His main tutors throughout the years include Eugenio Espinoza and Fanny Krivoy in Caracas (1989-1990), Joan Hernández Pijuan and Joaquim Chancho in Barcelona (1992–1995), Claude Viallat in Paris (1994), and Peter Doig, Vanessa Jackson, John Dougill, Jo Stockham and Paul Huxley in London (1996–1998).

[1] The recent history of his native Venezuela has been present in his works in his exhibitions, notably in London at Cecilia Brunson Projects (Guarimba, 2017 and Loop, 2022) and in New York at Henrique Faría Fine Art (The dark paintings, 2018).

"[3] Venezuelan Curator Jesús Fuenmayor wrote in 2006 for the catalogue of Gili's show at Periférico Caracas that his paintings were "as if someone had thrown a bomb at a work by Carlos Cruz-Diez".

Swiss curator Oliver Kielmayer, wrote in 2009 "Jaime Gili seems to combine the wilderness of the jungle with a formalist and reductionist artistic language; the result is a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, a crystalline pulsating organism that almost comes alive.

[9] In Venezuela he completed "Diamante de las Semillitas",[10] a work in Petare, a very high density informal city with a colonial core in the East of Caracas.