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Latin American visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, video artists, etc.), arranged by nationality:
Antonio Berni
Delesio Antonio Berni (14 May 1905 – 13 October 1981) was an Argentine figurative artist. He is associated with the movement known as ''Nuevo Realismo'' ("New Realism"), an Argentine extension of social realism. His work, including a serie ...
León Ferrari
León Ferrari (September 3, 1920 – July 25, 2013) was an Argentine contemporary conceptual artist. During his extended art career (1954-2013), his artworks often protested the Argentinian government, the imperialist west, and the Church.
Fe ...
Esteban Lisa
Esteban Lisa (1895–1983) was a painter from Spain, living almost his whole life in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Biography
Esteban Lisa was born in Hinojosa de San Vicente, Toledo (Spain) on August 8, 1895.
At the age of 12 he emigrated to Argenti ...
(1895–1983)
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Cándido López
Cándido López (29 August 1840 – 31 December 1902) was an Argentine soldier and painter who worked in the Naïve style. He is best known for his historical scenes from the Paraguayan War in which he fought.
Biography
Early life
He beg ...
Florencio Molina Campos
Florencio Molina Campos (birth name, Florencio de los Ángeles Molina Campos, August 21, 1891 – November 16, 1959) was an Argentine illustrator and a painter known by his typical traditional scenes of the Pampa. His work represents gauchesco ...
Benito Quinquela Martín
Benito Quinquela Martín (March 1, 1890 – January 28, 1977) was an Argentine painter. Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters. His paintings of port scenes show the activ ...
(1890–1977)
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Xul Solar
Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (14 December 1887 – 9 April 1963), an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.
Biography
Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari was born ...
(1887–1963)
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Raúl Soldi
Raúl Soldi (27 March 1905 – 21 April 1994) was an Argentine painter and production designer whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for ...
Grete Stern
Grete Stern (9 May 1904 – 24 December 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires ...
Gonzalo Condarco
Gonzalo Condarco is a Bolivian sculptor. His works are on display in the National Art Museum (Bolivia) in La Paz and the Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia in El Alto
El Alto (Spanish for "The Heights") is the second-largest city in Bolivia ...
, sculptor
* Inés Córdova (1927–2010), painter, potter
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Alfredo Da Silva
Alfredo Da Silva (February 20, 1935 – January 26, 2020) was a painter, graphic artist, and photographer, known for his abstract expressionism. He came to international prominence in 1959 and remained so until his death in 2020.
Biography
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(1935-2020), painter and photographer
* Alejandra Dorado (born 1969), installation and performance artist
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Sonia Falcone
Sonia Falcone, born March 27, 1965, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, is a Bolivian artist known for her painting and installation work. She currently resides in Mexico and is a naturalized Mexican citizen.
Early life
At an early age Falcone ...
(born 1965), painter
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Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Graciela Rodo (born 1935 in La Paz) is a Bolivian painter. She is noted for her artworks featuring stylized renderings of children.
Early life
Her love of art was influenced by her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art ...
(born 1935), painter and printmaker
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Roberto Mamani Mamani
Mamani Mamani is an Aymara artist from Bolivia. His work is significant in its use of Aymara indigenous tradition and symbols. His art has been exhibited around the world, including shows in Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Munich, China, Singapore, ...
Marina Núñez del Prado
Marina Núñez del Prado (17 October 1910 – 9 September 1995) was a celebrated Bolivian sculptor.
Marina Núñez del Prado was one of the most respected sculptors from Latin America. Núñez del Prado based many of her sculptures off of the fem ...
(c. 1910–1995), sculptor
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María Luisa Pacheco
María Luisa Pacheco (22 September 1919 – 23 April 1982) was a Bolivian painter and mixed-media artist who immigrated to the United States. Despite her 20-year later career in New York, she was much more influential in Latin American art than t ...
Aleijadinho
Antônio Francisco Lisboa ( or 1738 – 18 November 1814), better known as Aleijadinho (), was a sculptor, carver and architect of Colonial Brazil, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. Little is known with certainty about his ...
(1730–1814)
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Tarsila do Amaral
Tarsila de Aguiar do Amaral (; 1 September 1886 – 17 January 1973) was a Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator. She is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, and is regarded as the painter who best achieved Bra ...
(1886–1973)
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Artur Barrio
Artur Barrio (Artur Alipio Barrio de Sousa Lopes) is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his work consists of installation pieces that create interaction with the public. Barrio engages the viewer as participant in h ...
Di Cavalcanti
Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo (September 6, 1897 – October 26, 1976), known as Di Cavalcanti, was a Brazilian painter who sought to produce a form of Brazilian art free of any noticeable European influences. His wife was the p ...
(1897–1976)
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Amílcar de Castro
Amílcar Augusto Pereira de Castro (6 June 1920 – 21 November 2002) was a Brazilian artist, sculptor and graphic designer.
Early life and education
Born in Paraisópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil Amilcar de Castro was the child of a judge a ...
(1920–2002)
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Lygia Clark
Lygia Pimentel Lins (23 October 1920 – 25 April 1988), better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-2 ...
(1920–1988)
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Oswaldo Goeldi
Oswaldo Goeldi (31 October 1895 – 16 February 1961) was a Brazilian artist and renowned engraver. He was the son of Swiss naturalist Émil Goeldi.
Goeldi was born in Rio de Janeiro, but lived in Belém, in the state Pará, until he was 6 ...
(1895–1961)
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Anna Maria Maiolino
Anna Maria Maiolino (born May 20, 1942) is a Brazilian contemporary artist.
Early life
Maiolino was born in Scalea, in Calabria in southern Italy, to an Italian father and Ecuadorian mother. In 1954, her family emigrated to Venezuela, wher ...
(born 1942)
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Anita Malfatti
Anita Catarina Malfatti (December 2, 1889 – November 6, 1964) is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exhibition in Sao Paulo, from 1917–1918, was controversial ...
(1889–1964)
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Cildo Meireles
Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, e ...
(born 1948)
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Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz (; born 1961) is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Primarily working with unconventional ma ...
(born 1961)
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Hélio Oiticica
Hélio Oiticica (; July 26, 1937 – March 22, 1980) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for ...
(1937–1980)
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José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (8 May 1850 – 13 November 1899), commonly known as Almeida Júnior, was a Brazilian artist and designer; one of the first there to paint in the Realistic tradition of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet. ...
(1850–1899)
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Naza
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(born 1955)
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Ismael Nery
Ismael Nery (October 9, 1900 – April 6, 1934) was a Brazilian artist.
Biography
Background
Born in Belém, Pará, of Dutch, Native-Brazilian, and African ancestry, he studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (National School of Fine A ...
(1900–1934)
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Lygia Pape
Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 196 ...
Cândido Portinari
Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
Portinari ...
(1903–1962)
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Lasar Segall
Lasar Segall (July 21, 1889 – August 2, 1957) was a Lithuanian Jewish and Brazilian painter, engraver and sculptor. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism. His most significant themes were depictions of hu ...
Adriana Varejão
Adriana Varejão (born 1964, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist. She works in various disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. She was an artist-in-resident at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2004. ...
Guy Veloso
Guy Veloso (born 1969) is a Brazilian documentary photographer.
Biography
Guy Benchimol de Veloso was born and works in Belém in the State of Pará, Brazil, a city of 1.5 million inhabitants in the Amazon rainforest. A Law graduate by Federal U ...
Lalo Alcaraz
Lalo Alcaraz (born April 19, 1964) is an American cartoonist most known for being the author of the comic ''La Cucaracha'', the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip. Launched in 2002, ''La Cucaracha'' has becom ...
(born 1964)
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Carlos Almaraz
Carlos D. Almaraz (October 5, 1941 – December 11, 1989) was a Mexican-American artist and a pioneer of the Chicano art movement.
Early life and education
Almaraz was born on October 5, 1941, in Mexico City, Mexico to parents Roe and Rudolph Alm ...
Judy Baca
Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, 1946) is an American artist, activist, and professor of Chicano studies, world arts, and cultures based at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Soc ...
Richard Dominguez
Richard Dominguez (born Eufrancio Ricardo Dominguez September 22, 1960 in Dallas, Texas) is an American comic book artist and freelance storyboard illustrator. Best known for creating the popular series ''El Gato Negro'', Dominguez publishes his co ...
(born 1960)
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Edgar de Evia
Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia (July 30, 1910 – February 10, 2003), was a Mexican-born American interiors photographer.
In a career that spanned the 1940s through the 1990s, his photography appeared in maga ...
Robert Graham (sculptor)
Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 – December 27, 2008) was a Mexican-born American sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure, and are featured in public places across Am ...
(1938–2008)
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Manuel Gregorio Acosta
Manuel Gregorio Acosta (1921–1989) was a Mexican-born American painter, muralist, sculptor, and illustrator. His work received more recognition during the Chicano movement, and his portrait of Cesar Chavez was reproduced on the cover of ''Tim ...
Ester Hernandez
Ester Hernández (born 1944) is a California Bay Area Chicanx visual artist recognized for her prints and pastels focusing on farm worker rights, cultural, political, and Chicana feminist issues.
Background
Hernández is a Chicana of Yaqui ...
(born 1944)
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Gilbert Hernandez
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(born 1957)
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Jaime Hernandez
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Yolanda Lopez
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* Yolanda (name), a given name derived from the Greek ''Iolanthe''
Places
* Yolanda, California
* Yolanda Shrine, monument located at Barangay Anibong, Tacloban, Leyte
Film
* ''Yolanda'' (film), a 1924 film starring ...
Xavier Martínez
Xavier Timoteo Martínez (February 7, 1869 – January 13, 1943) was a California artist active in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was a well-known bohemian figure in San Francisco, the East Bay, and the Monterey Peninsula and one of ...
Manuel Neri
Manuel John Neri Jr. (April 12, 1930October 18, 2021) was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri's work with the figure, he conveys an emotional inner state that is re ...
Jhonen Vasquez
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Marcela Donoso
Marcela Donoso Concha (Santiago
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Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war— ...
Roberto Matta
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art.
Bio ...
(1911–2002)
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Gordon Matta-Clark
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...
Thomas Somerscales
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(1842–1927)
* Catalina Parra (born 1940), political/feminist conceptual artist
Colombia
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Julio Abril
Julio Vicente Agapito Abril Mayorga (20 August 1911 – 24 April 1979) was a Colombian sculptor, painter, and draughtsman.
Biography
Beginnings in the arts
Julio Abril was born in Moniquirá on 20 August 1911. He studied in 1928 at the Sal ...
Antonio Caro
Antonio José Caro Lopera (10 December 1950 – 29 March 2021) was a Colombian conceptual artist who created works since the late 1960s. He typically used non-traditional forms to create politically and socially charged critiques of Colombian is ...
Miguel de la Espriella
Miguel de la Espriella (born November 14, 1947), more commonly known by his artistic name, ''Noble'', is a self-taught painter and sculptor from Sucre, Colombia, whose art has been presented widely within his country and throughout the world.
Nob ...
Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo Ignacio Gomez Jaramillo ( Medellín, 30 December 1910 - Coveñas, 12 July 1970) was a Colombian painter, drawer, and muralist. Gomez Jaramillo was one of Colombia's most important artists of the 20th century. He was part of the Colombian Muralist M ...
Santiago Martínez Delgado
Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906–1954) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, art historian and writer. He established a reputation as a prominent muralist during the 1940s and is also known for his watercolors, oil paintings, illustrations and w ...
Omar Rayo
Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, whi ...
Doris Salcedo
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(born 1958)
Cuba
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Jose Acosta Hernandez
José Acosta Hernandez (born 1966) also known simply as Jose Acosta, is a Cuban-born American artist. He is known as a painter and sculptor.
Early life and education
José Acosta Hernandez was born in 1966 in San José, Cuba. His family immigrat ...
José Bernal
José Bernal Romero (January 8, 1925 – April 19, 2010, known by his first name and by his paternal family name José Bernal) was a Cuban-American artist, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara). H ...
(1925–2010)
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F. Lennox Campello
F. Lennox Campello is an American (born in Cuba, 1956) artist, art critic, author, art dealer, curator, and visual arts blogger. In 2016 ''The Washington City Paper'' called him "one of the most interesting people of Washington, DC."
Early li ...
(born 1956)
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María Magdalena Campos Pons
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born July 22, 1959) is a Cuban-born artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Campos-Pons works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She is considered a "key figure" among Cuban artists ...
Pedro Álvarez Castelló
Pedro Reinaldo Álvarez Castelló (February 9, 1967 – February 12, 2004) was a Cuban artist who rose to prominence during Cuba's Special Period.
Biography
Álvarez was a native of Havana, Cuba. He studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bel ...
Rafael Consuegra
Rafael Consuegra (September 16, 1941 – September 17, 2021) was a Cuban-born American sculptor and ceramist who worked in the United States and Europe.
Consuegra was born in Havana, Cuba. He left the island in 1960 and established residence ...
Coco Fusco
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Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres (November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres's openly gay sexual orientation was influential in his work as an artist. González-Torres was known for his minimal inst ...
Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera (May 31, 1915 – February 12, 2022) was a Cuban-born American abstract, minimalist visual artist and painter. She was born in Havana and lived in New York City from the mid-1950s. Herrera's abstract works brought her internation ...
(born 1915)
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Miguel Jorge
Miguel Jorge (1928–1984), also known as “Micky” Jorge, was a Cuban artist who was influential in the establishment of South Florida's early Latin American art market in the Greater Miami area from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Life and car ...
Alberto Korda
Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda (September 14, 1928 – May 25, 2001), was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image ''Guerrillero Heroico'' of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
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Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla (; December 8, 1902 – September 11, 1982), better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture. Inspired by and in conta ...
(1902–1982)
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Los Carpinteros ''Los Carpinteros'' is a Cuban artist collective founded in Havana in 1992 by Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez, and Alexandre Arrechea (who left the group in 2003). In 1994 they decided "to renounce the notion of individua ...
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Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta left for the United States in 1961.
Earl ...
Amelia Peláez
Amelia Peláez del Casal (5 January 1896 – 8 April 1968) was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation.
Biography
Amelia Peláez was born in 1896 in Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas (now Sancti Spíritus Pr ...
Dionisio Perkins
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Life and career Early years
Dionisio Perki ...
Wilfredo Prieto
Wilfredo Prieto (born 1978; Sancti Spíritus, Cuba), is a Cuban conceptual artist.
He moved to Havana to pursue his art studies at Instituto Superior de Arte, The University of Arts of Cuba (ISA), graduating in 2002.
Overview
He has a universit ...
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Sandra Ramos
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Baruj Salinas
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Background
Salinas' family is of ...
Jaime Colson
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Olivia Peguero
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Painting most of the year in the Dominican Republic and Florida, she is known for producing all of her studies and the majority of her fini ...
Rigo Peralta Rigo Peralta is a Dominican artist living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.
Early life
Mario Rigoberto Peralta was born in San José de las Matas, Dominican Republic. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Santiago, Dominican ...
Amaya Salazar
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Clara Ledesma
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Early years and education
Born in Santiago de los Caballeros, she at ...
Raquel Paiewonsky
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Early life and education
Born in Puerto Plata, Paiewonsky graduated in 1991 from the Altos de Chavón School of Design in La Romana. The following year she held her first ...
Oscar Abreu
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(born 1978)
Ecuador
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Aníbal Villacís
Aníbal Villacís (1927, Ambato, Ecuador – March 7, 2012) was a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artis ...
(1927–2012)
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Araceli Gilbert
Araceli Gilbert de Blomberg (1913 in Guayaquil, Ecuador – 1993 in Quito), was an Ecuadorian artist.
Gilbert enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile in 1936, studying under Jorge Caballero and Hernán Gazmurri, well-know ...
Camilo Egas Camilo Egas (1889-September 18, 1962) was an Ecuadorian master painter and teacher, who was also active in the United States and Europe.Rodríguez, Marco Antonio and Mario MonteforteUn Antelatado de su Tiempo: Camilo Egas. ''Latin Art Museum.'' (ret ...
(1889–1962)
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Eduardo Kingman
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Jorge Velarde Jorge Velarde (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1960) is a Contemporary Latin American painter from Ecuador. Velarde has been drawing and painting since he was a child. At the age of 15 Velarde knew that he was meant to be a painter.
Velarde is a co-founder of ...
Juan Villafuerte
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Luis Molinari-Flores Luis Molinari (1929 in Guayaquil, Ecuador – 1994 in Quito, Ecuador) (Luis Molinari-Flores) was a member of the VAN Group (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), a collective of informal constructivist artists founded by Enrique Tábara and Aníb ...
(1929–1994)
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Manuel Rendón
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People
* Manuel (name)
* Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers''
* Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies
* Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire
* M ...
(1894–1992)
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Marcos Restrepo
Marcos Restrepo (born 1961, Catarama, Ecuador) Restrepo is a Latin American painter who is a member of the artist group Artefactoría, founded by Xavier Patiño. Artefactoría was formed in 1982 by a group of painters from the School of Fine A ...
(born 1961)
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Miguel Betancourt
Miguel Betancourt (born 5 January 1958) is an Ecuadorian contemporary artist living in Quito, Ecuador. He was formed as an artist in Ecuador, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His paintings are a fusion of local cultural motives and co ...
(born 1958)
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Oswaldo Guayasamín
Oswaldo Guayasamín (July 6, 1919 – March 10, 1999) was an Ecuadorian painter and sculptor of Kichwa and Mestizo heritage.
Biography
Early life
Guayasamín was born in Quito, Ecuador, to a native father and a Mestiza mother, both of Kichwa d ...
(1919–1999)
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Oswaldo Moncayo
Oswaldo Moncayo (September 10, 1923 – April 4, 1984) was an Ecuadorian painter.
Moncayo (O. Moncayo) was born in Riobamba, Ecuador. As a child he moved to Quito, the capital of Ecuador, where he learned the art of oil painting. He started to p ...
(1923–1984)
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Oswaldo Viteri
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Xavier Blum Pinto
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Beatriz Cortez
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* Giovanni Gil (born 1971) Engraver (printmaker), Painter and Watercolorist
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Salarrué
Luis Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (October 22, 1899 – November 27, 1975), known as Salarrué (a derivation of his surnames), was a Salvadorian writer, poet, and painter.
Born in Sonsonate to a well-off family, Salarrué trained a ...
Rodolfo Abularach
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Biography
He was born in Guatemala City. His work focuses mainly on the human eye. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes P ...
Regina José Galindo
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Early work
Remarkably, for an artist who is known for the political themes of her work, Galindo grew up ...
Aníbal López
Aníbal López (A-1 53167), full name Aníbal Asdrúbal López Juarez (April 13, 1964 – September 26, 2014) was an artist and a native of Guatemala. He began his career creating figurative art influenced by expressionism. He has worked in ...
(born 1964), painter, performance artist, photography, videographer
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Carlos Mérida
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Raúl Anguiano
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Ignacio Barrios
Ignacio Barrios (March 10, 1930 – January 22, 2013) was a Mexican painter mostly known for his absolute commitment to watercolour painting. He earned the reputation of one of the top watercolour painters in his country of originGarcía Barrag ...
, watercolorist
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Luis Barragán
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, architect
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Arnold Belkin
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Miguel Cabrera
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(1695–1768), painter
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Leonora Carrington
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Gunther Gerzso Gunther Gerzso (June 17, 1915 – April 21, 2000) was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre.
Biography
Gerzso was born in Mexico City, in the times of the Revolution. His parents were Oscar Gerzso ( hu, ...
(1915–2000)
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His fifteen b ...
(born 1955)
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Graciela Iturbide
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Biograp ...
Guillermo Kahlo
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Teresa Margolles
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(born 1963)
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Tina Modotti
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, photographer (1896–1942)
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Pablo O'Higgins
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Early life and education
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, O'Higgins was raised there and in San Diego, C ...
Gabriel Orozco
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Diego Rivera
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Rufino Tamayo
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Omar D'León
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D'León was born Omar D'León Lacayo y Estrada in 1929 in Managua, Nicaragua.
D'León studied nine years at the '' Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes'' in Nicaragua under ...
, painter
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Franck de Las Mercedes
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, artist
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Armando Morales
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Morales, who was born in Granada, Nicaragua, received many awar ...
Gabriel Traversari
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Early life
Traversari was born in Los Angeles, California, bu ...
Ernesto Cardenal
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, poet
Panama
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Carlos Francisco Chang Marín
Carlos Francisco Chang Marín or Changmarín (February 26, 1922 – December 5, 2012) was a Panamanian folklorist, painter, musician, journalist, activist and writer of poetry, essays and children's literature.
His writing, which has been descr ...
Alfredo Sinclair
Alfredo Sinclair (8 December 1914 – 2 February 2014) was a Panamanian artist. He was born in Panama City. He studied with Humberto Ivaldi at the National School of Painting and later in Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine R ...
, painter (1914–2014)
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Olga Sinclair
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She participated for the first time in a collective exhibition amongst professional painters at the age of just 14.
She started painting studies with her father, t ...
Pablo Amaringo
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Martín Chambi
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Recognized for the profound historic and ...
Fernando De Szyszlo
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Victoria Santa Cruz
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Victoria Santa Cruz would go on to be called "the mother of Afro Peruvian dance and theatre." Along with her br ...
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Fernando de Szyszlo
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Mario Testino
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His work has featured internationally in magazines such as ''Vogue, V Magazine,'' ''Vanity Fair'' and '' GQ.'' He has also crea ...
, photographer
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Tilsa Tsuchiya
Tilsa Tsuchiya Castillo (September 24, 1928 – September 23, 1984), was a Peruvian printmaker and painter known for her paintings of Peruvian myths and legends. She is considered one of the greatest exemplars of Peruvian painting, having won the p ...
Alberto Vargas
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José Campeche
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Soraida Martinez
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Francisco Oller
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Arnaldo Roche Rabell Arnaldo Roche Rabell (December 5, 1955 – November 17, 2018) was a Puerto Rican painter, described as "one of the most important artists of the neo-expressionist movement".
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was educated at the Luchetti School ...
Zoma Baitler
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(1908–1994)
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Rafael Barradas
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Biography
His parents were immigrants from Spain. His older sister, Ca ...
(1890–1929)
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Eduardo Barreto
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All of his children are artists. Two of them, D ...
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Juan Manuel Blanes
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Life and work
Blanes was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1830. He was raised by his mother, with whom he relocated to the cou ...
Eladio Dieste
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Carlos María Herrera
Carlos María Herrera (December 18, 1875 – September 27, 1914) was a Uruguayan painter.
Biography
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Herrera began his studies there under the instruction of the Italian painter, Pedro Queirolo, later relocating to ...
(1875–1914)
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Carlos Páez Vilaró
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Life and work
Carlos Páez Vilaró was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1923. He to ...
Joaquín Torres García
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Given name
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* Joaquín (footballer, born 19 ...
José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín
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(1891–1975)
Venezuela
19th century Venezuelan artists (chronological order)
Martín Tovar y Tovar
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Biography
Tovar was born and died in Caracas. His father, Antonio María Tovar (1791–1860), was a f ...
(1827–1902), artist and painter
* Eloy Palacios (1847–1919), artist, sculptor and painter
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Emilio Boggio
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Arturo Michelena
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Biography
His father, Juan Antonio Michelena (1832-1918) was also a painter. His mothe ...
(1863–1898), painter
20th century Venezuelan artists (chronological order)
Manuel Cabré
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Life and career
Cabré was born on January 25, 1890 ...
Jesús Soto
Jesus ( AD 30 or 33) was a Jewish preacher and religious leader who most Christians believe to be the incarnation of God and Muslims believe was a prophet.
Jesus may also refer to:
People
Religious figures
* Elymas Bar-Jesus, a Jew in the ''Ac ...
(1923–2005)
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Oswaldo Vigas
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(1923–2014)
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Carlos Cruz-Díez
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Exhibitions
* ''Physichromies de Cruz-Diez: Oeuvres de 1954 à 1965' ...
Lía Bermúdez
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Bermúdez was born in Caracas. She began her studies at the School of Applied Arts in Caracas (1944–1946) and moved to Maracaibo. There in 1947, she continued he ...
(1930–2021)
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Marisol Escobar
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(1930–2016), sculptor
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Jacobo Borges
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(born 1931), neo-figurative artist
* Juan Calzadilla (born 1931), poet, painter and art critic
* Julio Maragall (born 1936), sculptor
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Harry Abend
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(1937–2021)
* Balthazar Armas (1941–2015), contemporary and abstract movement painter
* Paul del Rio (1943–2015), sculptor and painter
* Jorge Blanco (born 1945), artist, sculptor, graphic designer, illustrator and humorist
* Patricia van Dalen (born 1955)
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Arturo Herrera
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Hermann Mejia Hermann or Herrmann may refer to:
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* Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language
* Éditions Hermann, French publisher
* Hermann, Miss ...
(born 1973), illustrator, painter and sculptor
* Yucef Merhi (born 1977)
See also
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Latin American art
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The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the ...
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List of indigenous artists of the Americas
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List of Latin American writers
This is a list of some of the most important writers from Latin America, organized by cultural region and nationality. The focus is on Latin American literature.
Andeans
Bolivia
* Alcides Arguedas (1879–1946), historian
*Matilde Casazola
* J ...
References
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Latin
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Artists
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