Xavier Blum Pinto (born 1957 in

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) is an

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ian artist. From 1974 to 1976 he studied architecture at the Universidad Catolica Santiago de Guayaquil, in

. In 1981, obtained his MA in Fine Arts from the Universitė of

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. In 1996 he participated in the

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Individual exhibitions

*2006 "Memoria Palafitica", MAAC (Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo), Guayaquil. *2005 "Memoria Palafitica", Galería – Café "Dada", Guayaquil *2005 "Ciudad Devuelta", Galería "El Conteiner", (Quito – Ecuador) *2004 "Ciudad Devuelta", Galería Mirador, Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil *2000 Café Galería Casa Azul (Salinas - Ecuador) *1997 Galería La Manzana Verde (Guayaquil) *1997 Galería X. Blum (Ballenita - Ecuador) *1996 Galería and Cultural Centro, Ballenita, Ecuador. *1995 Salinas Yacht Club, Salt mines, Ecuador; *1995 Pacific National Bank,

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. *1994 School of Comunicacion Monica Herrera,

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. *1993 Galería X. Blum,

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. *1992 School of Architects of the Guayas,

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; *1992 Stage area Performance Gallery,

. *1991 Galería ART-You,

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. *1990 Feminine society of Culture,

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. *1989 Mayan Inca, Paris, France; *1989 Galería, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1989 House of the Culture, Quito, Ecuador. *1988 Museum of Art of the Central bank, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1988 Galería and Cultural Centro, Ballenita, Ecuador; *1988 Commercial center the Display cabinets, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1987 The Store, Galerģa de Arte, River basin, Ecuador; *1987 Galería and Cultural Centro X. Blum, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1987 Faculty of Architecture of the Catolica University of Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1987 House of the Nöcleo Culture of the Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1986 Blanca Even Guarderas of Fasinarm, Center of Resources, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1985 Artefactoría, Galería Factory, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1984 The Oca, Galerģa Cafė, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1983 Gallery do Theatre in Herbe, Paris, France; The Engreģdo Vegetable, Bot˛nico Garden, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1981 Municipal museum of Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Group exhibitions

*2007 Moradas Interiores, MAAC, (Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo), Guayaquil *2904 30 Ideas, Museo Meguro (Tokio – Japon) *2004 8va. Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, Ecuador *2002 Piqueo Haptico, Arte no Visual (Antiguo Mercado Sur) Guayaquil *2001 10 Años Después, Universidad Católica (Guayaquil) *2001 Ayampe 2001, Arte y Ecología. Performance (Playas de Ayampe – Ecuador) *2000 Ayampe 2000, Arte y Ecología. Performance (Playas de Ayampe – Ecuador) *2000 COLOR DELFIN, XACL Valla pública y acción interactiva en la red. (Guayaquil) *1999 Banderita tricolor (Galería Madeleine Hollaender - Guayaquil) *1999 Esculturas Efímeras, en playas ecuatorianas. XACL *1998 Esculturas Luz. XACL (Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera - Guayaquil) *1998 Unico en su género. Libros de artistas del Ecuador (Philadelphia - EE.UU.) *1998 Formación de XACL, dupla creativa con Claudia Maldonado *1997 Ecuador Contemporáneo (Palacio de Linares - Madrid - España) *1997 El Arranque (Galería Madeleine Hollaender - Guayaquil) *1997 Club Latinoamericano de Papeleros (São Paulo - Brasil) *1997 Apéndice (ZUÁKATA espacio - alternativo, Guayaquil) *1997 Intervenciones Urbanas (Buenos Aires - Argentina) *1997 Arte de Papel (Art Forvm - Quito) *1997 8/4 (Alianza Francesa - Guayaquil) ZUÁKATA *1997 Ayampe 5 Cerros (Ayampe - Ecuador) ZUÁKATA *1996 Soledad Urbana (Guayaquil) ZUÁKATA *1996 XXIII Bienal de São Paulo (Brasil) *1996 Invadumbre (Guayaquil) ZUÁKATA *1996 Salón de Selección de la Bienal de São Paulo (Quito) *1996 Museo de los Amantes de Sumpa (Sta. Elena - Ecuador) *1996 Punta Blanca 96, White End, Ecuador. *1995 Imágenes y Texturas (Museo Banco Central - Guayaquil) *1995 Punta Blanca 95, White End, Ecuador; Images and Textures, Museum Central bank, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1994 Salón de Julio, Municipal Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1994 The daily thing of the Art, Municipal Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1994 Exposicion Collection of Ceramics, Galerģa Madeleine Hollander, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1993 Catolica University Faculty of Arquitetura, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1992 Exposicion X. Blum and Hernan Zuniga, Galerģa X. Blum, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1992 Exposicion 500 To you,

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. *1991 Exposicion Art of the 90 Room of Art L'ART, Quito, Ecuador. *1990 III Prė-Biennial de Pintura, River basin, Ecuador; *1990 Exposicion 10 to you, 100 Editions, 100 Artists, Magazine DINERS, Quito, Ecuador. *1989 Week of Ecuador in France,

; *1989 First Saltacion of Proesa Art, House of the Culture, Quito, Ecuador; *1989 Museum Nahim Isaģas, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1989 II FLAAC Latin American Festival of Art and Culture, Brasģlia,

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; *1989 Galerģa Cafė Marries of the Culture, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1989 traveling exhibition

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;

; *1988 Hall October, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1988 Prė-Biennial, River basin, Ecuador; *1988 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts MOCHA,

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; *1988 Exhibit with Artefactoría, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1988 House of Espa ˜ to,

, United States. *1987 Hall Julio, Museum of the Central bank, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1987 Art in the Street, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1986 Prė-Biennial Nacional de Pintura, Museum of Modern Art, River basin, Ecuador; *1986 Ecuadorian painters by Amnistģa the International, Ecuador. *1985 Painters of Ecuador, San Josė,

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; *1985 EncontrArte VII, Park of Chipipe, Salt Mines, Ecuador. *1984 Mariano Aguilera, Quito, Ecuador; *1984 First National Biennial of Drawing, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1984 Format, Galerģa Monaschka, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1984 Hotel the Gilded one, River basin, Ecuador; *1984 Continental hotel, Guayaquil, Ecuador. *1984 Galerģa Monaschka, Guayaquil, Ecuador; *1984 EncontrArte, Chipipe Park, Salt mines, Ecuador; EncontrArte V, Municipal Pal˛cio, Guayaquil, Ecuador; EncontrArte IV, House of the Culture, Quito, Ecuador. *1983 Nacional Vicente Rocafuerte,

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, Ecuador;

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, Ecuador; *1983 Hotel of Ville,

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; *1983 Esquisse pour unites Installation, Gallery do Theatre in Herbe, Paris, France, with Carinna Lojgren Williams; *1983 EncontrArte III, Park the Ejido, Quito, Ecuador; EncontrArte III with Cultural Factory the Cockroach, Parks of Urdesa,

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, Ecuador. *1981 Forum of Halls,

References

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