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Latin American visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, video artists, etc.), arranged by nationality:

Argentina

* Roberto Aizenberg (1928–1996) * Antonio Alice (1886–1943) *

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 ...

(1905–1981) * Delia Cancela (born 1940) * Graciela Carnevale (born 1942) * Elda Cerrato (born 1930) * Alicia Creus (born 1939) * José Cuneo (born 1965) *

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 ...

(1920-2013) * Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) * Alfredo Guttero (1882–1932) *

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) *

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 ...

(1840–1902) * Rebeca Mendoza (born 1967) *

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 ...

(1891–1959) * Marta Minujín (born 1944) * Marcelo Pombo (born 1959) * Liliana Porter (born 1941) * Alfredo Prior (born 1952) *

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) *

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) *

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 ...

(1905–1994) * Manuel Zorrilla (1919-2015) *

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 ...

(1904-1999) * Roberto Jacoby (born 1944) * Bibi Zogbé (1890-1973)

Bolivia

* Rodolfo Ayoroa (1927–2003), painter, printmaker, sculptor * Roberto Berdecio (1910–1996), muralist, painter, printmaker *

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 *

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 ...

(1935-2020), painter and photographer * Alejandra Dorado (born 1969), installation and performance artist *

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 *

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 *

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, ...

, painter * Master of Calamarca (early 18th century), painter * Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores (1933-2004), painter *

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 *

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 ...

(1919–1982), painter and illustrator * Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas (1899–1950), painter * Francisco Tito Yupanqui (1550–1616), sculptor * Gastón Ugalde (born 1946) * Rosmery Mamani Ventura (born 1985), painter * Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–1960), painter and printmaker

Brazil

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) *

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) *

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 ...

(born 1945) * Lenora de Barros (born 1953) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) 14Guy Veloso Janus

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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(born 1955) *

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) *

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 ...

(1927–2004) * Wanda Pimentel (1943-2015) *

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) *

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 ...

(1891–1957) * Teresinha Soares (born 1927) * Amelia Toledo (1926-2017) *

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. ...

(born 1964) * Cybèle Varela (born 1943) *

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 ...

(born 1969) * Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988) * Márcia X (1959-2005)

Chicano

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) *

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 ...

(1941–1989) * Cecilia Alvarez (born 1950) * Miguel Angel Reyes (born 1964) * Alfonso Arana (1927–2005) * Gus Arriola (1917–2008) * John August Swanson (1938–2021) *

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 ...

(born 1946) * Enrique Chagoya (born 1953), printmaker, painter * Jerry De La Cruz (born 1948) * Roberto de la Rocha *

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) *

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 ...

(1910–2003) * Elsa Flores (born 1955) * Harry Gamboa, Jr. (born 1951) * David Gonzales (cartoonist) (born 1964) *

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) *

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 ...

(1921–1989) * Gronk (born 1957) *

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) *

Gilbert Hernandez Gilberto Hernández (born February 1, 1957), usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also by the nickname Beto (), is an American cartoonist. He is best known for his ''Palomar''/''Heartbreak Soup'' stories in '' Love and Rockets'', an alterna ...

(born 1957) *

Jaime Hernandez Jaime (sometimes spelled Xaime) Hernandez (born 1959) is the co-creator of the Alternative comics, alternative comic book ''Love and Rockets (comics), Love and Rockets'' with his brothers Gilbert Hernandez, Gilbert and Mario Hernandez (comics), M ...

(born 1959) * Javier Hernandez (born 1966) * Mario Hernandez (born 1953) *

Yolanda Lopez Yolanda may refer to: * 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 ...

(1942–2021) * Gilbert Luján (1940-2011) *

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 ...

(1859–1943) * Alberto Mijangos (1925–2007) * Laura Molina (born 1957) * Rafael Navarro (born 1967) *

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 ...

(1930–2021) * Rafael Vargas-Suarez (born 1972) * Mark Vallen (born 1953) * Emigdio Vasquez (1939–2014) *

Jhonen Vasquez Jhonen C. Vasquez (; born September 1, 1974) is an American cartoonist, animator, screenwriter, music video director, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the comic book '' Johnny the Homicidal Maniac''—along with its spin-off comics ...

(born 1974) * Esteban Villa (born 1930)

Chile

* Joan Belmar * Carlos Catasse (1944–2010) * Santos Chávez (1934–2001), printmaker * Marta Colvin (1907–1995) * Eugenio Cruz Vargas (1923–2014) * Juan Davila * Guillermo Deisler (1940–1995) *

Marcela Donoso Marcela Donoso Concha (Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the ...

(born 1961) * Freddy Flores Knistoff (born 1948) *

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— ...

(born 1956) * LasTesis * Pedro Lira (1845–1912) *

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) *

Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Matta-Echaurren; June 22, 1943 – August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art. ...

(1943–1978), Chilean-American * Camilo Mori (1896–1973) * José Manuel Ramírez Rosales (1804–1877) *

Thomas Somerscales Thomas Jacques Somerscales (born in Sculcoates, Yorkshire on 29 October 1842; died in Sculcoates, Yorkshire on 27 June 1927) was an English teacher, sailor, and landscape and marine painter. He is also considered a Chilean painter as he began h ...

(1842–1927) * Catalina Parra (born 1940), political/feminist conceptual artist

Colombia

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 ...

(1912–1979) * Liliana Angulo Cortés (born 1974) * Débora Arango (1907–2005) * Fernando Botero (born 1932) *

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 ...

(1950–2021) * Juan Fernando Cobo (born 1959) * Danilo Dueñas (born 1956) *

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 ...

"Noble" (born 1947) * Carlos Jacanamijoy (born 1964), painter *

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 ...

* Enrique Grau (1920–2004) *

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 ...

(1906–1954) * Édgar Negret * Alejandro Obregón (1920–1992) *

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 ...

(1928–2010) * Bernardo Ríos (born 1959) * Pedro Restrepo *

Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) is a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor."Doris Salcedo"
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(born 1958)

Cuba

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 ...

(born 1966) * José Braulio Bedia Valdés (born 1959) *

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) *

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) *

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 ...

(born 1959) * Yoan Capote * Manuel Carbonell (1917–2011) *

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 ...

(1967–2004) * Humberto Jesús Castro García (born 1957) *

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 ...

(1941-2021) * Felipe Dulzaides * Carlos Enríquez (1900–1957) * Roberto Fabelo (born 1951) * Agustín Fernández (1928–2006) * Teresita Fernández * Miguel Fleitas (born 1956) *

Coco Fusco Coco Fusco (born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares; June 18, 1960) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gender, identity, race, and power th ...

(born 1960) * Lourdes Gomez Franca (1933-2017) *

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 ...

(1957–1996) * Nestor Hernandez (1961–2006) *

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) *

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 ...

(1928-1984) * Josignacio (born 1963) *

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. ...

, photographer * Kcho (born 1970) *

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) *

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 ...

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 ...

(1948–1985) * Rene Mederos (1933–1996) * Adriano Nicot (born 1964) *

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 ...

(1896–1968) * Marta María Pérez Bravo (born 1969) *

Dionisio Perkins Dionisio Perkins (1929 – 2016), better known as Dennis (sometimes spelled "Denis") Perkins, was a Cuban artist recognized as a key member of the early Cuban exile art community in South Florida. Life and career Early years Dionisio Perki ...

(1929-2015) * Carlos Enrique Prado Herrera (born 1978) *

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 ...

Sandra Ramos Sandra Ramos (born Oct, 1969) is a Cuban contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, video and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work. She is known for works featuring her character of the Cuban Pioneer gir ...

(born 1969) * Miguel Rodez (born 1956) * Emilio Hector Rodriguez (born 1950) *

Baruj Salinas Baruj Salinas (born July 6, 1935) is a Cuban-American contemporary visual artist and architect. He is recognized as a central figure in the establishment of the modern Latin American art market in South Florida. Background Salinas' family is of ...

(born 1935) * Juan T. Vázquez Martín (1941-2017)

Dominican Republic

* Cándido Bidó (1936–2011) *

Jaime Colson Jaime Antonio Gumercindo González Colson (13 January 190120 November 1975) was a Dominican modernist painter, writer, and playwright born in Tubagua, Puerto Plata in 1901. He is remembered as one of the most important Dominican artists of the ...

(1901–1975) * Celeste Woss y Gil (1891-1985) * Yoryi Morel (1906-1979) * Paul Giudicelli * Delia Weber (1900-1982) * Tito Canepa (1916-2014) *

Olivia Peguero Olivia Peguero (born 1961) is a Dominican Republic, Dominican contemporary landscape and botanical artist. 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 ...

* Ada Balcácer (born 1930) *

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 ...

* Guillo Pérez (1923-2014) *

Amaya Salazar Amaya Salazar (born 1951, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupi ...

(born 1951) * Darío Suro (1917-1997) * Rosa Tavarez (born 1939) * Eligio Pichardo (1929-1984) *

Clara Ledesma Clara Ledesma Terrazas (5 March 1924 – 25 May 1999)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an artist from the Dominican Republic. Early years and education Born in Santiago de los Caballeros, she at ...

(1924-1999) * Gilberto Hernández Ortega (1923-1979) *

Raquel Paiewonsky Raquel Paiewonsky (born 1969) is an artist from the Dominican Republic. 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 ...

(born 1969) * Edward Telleria (born 1974) * Alberto Ulloa (1950-2011) *

Oscar Abreu Oscar Abreu (born March 6, 1978) is one of the top three most valued Dominican painters according to artprice.com. Oscar Abreu is also a sculptor, art collector, cultural personality and performance artist, who lives and works in Dominican Repub ...

(born 1978)

Ecuador

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) *

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 ...

(1913–1993) * Caesar Andrade Faini (1913–1995) *

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) *

Eduardo Kingman Eduardo Kingman Riofrío (February 23, 1913 – November 27, 1997) was an Ecuadorian artist. He is considered one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamín and Cam ...

(1913–1998) * Efraín Andrade Viteri (1920–1997) * Enrique Gomezjurado (1891–1978) *

Enrique Tábara Luis Enrique Tábara (21 February 1930 – 25 January 2021Estuardo Maldonado (born 1930) * Félix Arauz (born 1935) * Gonzalo Amancha (born 1948) * Gonzalo Endara Crow (1936–1996) * Hugo Cifuentes (photographer) *

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 ...

(born 1960) * José Carreño (born 1947) *

Juan Villafuerte Juan Villafuerte (July 19, 1945 – August 15, 1977) (Juan Antonio Villafuerte Estrada) was an artist known for his transmutated drawings and paintings. Villafuerte is among the ranks of other prominent Latin American painters such as Eduard ...

(1945–1977) * Judith Gutiérrez (1927–2003) * Luis Miranda (1932–2016) *

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) *

Manuel Rendón Manuel may refer to: 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) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) *

Oswaldo Viteri Oswaldo Viteri (born Ambato, Ecuador, 1931) is an Ecuadorian neo-figurative artist. Viteri gained recognition for his assemblage work, but has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, and mosaics. He began ...

(born 1931) * Ramón Piaguaje (born 1962) * Theo Constanté (1934–2014) *

Xavier Blum Pinto Xavier Blum Pinto (born 1957 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian artist. From 1974 to 1976 he studied architecture at the Universidad Catolica Santiago de Guayaquil, in Ecuador. In 1981, obtained his MA in Fine Arts from the Universitė of Paris VIII ...

(born 1957)

El Salvador

* Noe Canjura (1922–1970) *

Beatriz Cortez Beatriz Cortez is a Los Angeles-based artist and scholar from El Salvador. In 2017, Cortez was featured in a science fiction-themed exhibit at University of California, Riverside, and in 2018, her work was shown in the ''Made in L.A.'' group artis ...

* Giovanni Gil (born 1971) Engraver (printmaker), Painter and Watercolorist *

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 ...

(Salvador Salazar Arrué) * Nicolas F. Shi painter

Guatemala

Rodolfo Abularach Rodolfo Abularach (January 7, 1933 – August 30, 2020) was a Guatemalan painter and printmaker of Palestinian descent. Biography He was born in Guatemala City. His work focuses mainly on the human eye. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes P ...

(1933–2020), painter, printmaker * Ricardo Almendáriz ( fl. 1787), draftsman * José Luis Álvarez (1919–2012), painter * Margarita Azurdia (1931–1998), sculptor, painter * Andrés Curruchich (1891–1969), painter * Darío Escobar (born 1971), sculptor *

Regina José Galindo Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974) is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in body art. She was born in Guatemala City. Early work Remarkably, for an artist who is known for the political themes of her work, Galindo grew up ...

* Jessica Kairé (born 1980), sculptor, installation artist * Alfred Julio Jensen (1903–1981), abstract painter * Jorge de León (born 1976), performance artist *

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 *

Carlos Mérida Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican mura ...

(1891–1984) * Rafael Rodríguez Padilla (1890–1929), painter, printmaker, sculptor * Carlos Mauricio Valenti Perrillat (1888–1912), painter * Rafael Yela Günther (1888–1942), painter, sculptor * Efraín Recinos (1928–2011), painter, sculptor, architect

Mexico

Raúl Anguiano José Raúl Anguiano Valadez (February 26, 1915 – January 13, 2006) was a notable Mexican painter of the 20th century, part of the “second generation” of Mexican muralists which continued the tradition of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Or ...

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 *

Luis Barragán Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín (March 9, 1902 – November 22, 1988) was a Mexican architect and engineer. His work has influenced contemporary architects visually and conceptually. Barragán's buildings are frequently visited by international ...

, architect *

Arnold Belkin Arnold Belkin (December 9, 1930 – July 3, 1992) was a Canadian- Mexican painter credited for continuing the Mexican muralism tradition at a time when many Mexican painters were shifting away from it. Born and raised in western Canada, he ...

* Maris Bustamante (born 1949) *

Miguel Cabrera José Miguel Cabrera Torres (born April 18, 1983), nicknamed "Miggy", is a Venezuelan professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Since his debut in 2003 he has been a two-t ...

(1695–1768), painter *

Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of ...

(1917–2011) * Miguel Condé (born 1939) * Roberto Cortázar (born 1962) * Rodolfo Escalera (1929–2000) * Julio Galán (1958–2006) *

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) *

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) *

Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942) is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. Biograp ...

, photographer * Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) *

Guillermo Kahlo Guillermo Kahlo (born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo; 26 October 1871 – 14 April 1941) was a German-Mexican photographer. He photographically documented important architectural works, churches, streets, landmarks, as well as industries and companies in Me ...

, photographer * Myra Landau (1926–2018) * Rafael Lozano-Hemmer *

Teresa Margolles Teresa Margolles (born 1963) is a Mexican conceptual artist, photographer, videographer, and performance artist. As an artist she researches the social causes and consequences of death.Prince Claus Fund (June 2012''Report from the 2012 Prince Clau ...

(born 1963) *

Tina Modotti Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left Italy in 1913 and moved to ...

, photographer (1896–1942) *

Pablo O'Higgins Pablo Esteban O'Higgins (born Paul Higgins Stevenson; March 1, 1904 - July 16, 1983) was an American-Mexican artist, muralist and illustrator. Early life and education Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, O'Higgins was raised there and in San Diego, C ...

* José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) *

Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco (born April 27, 1962) is a Mexican artist. He gained his reputation in the early 1990s with his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. In 1998, Francesco Bonami called Orozco "one of the most influentia ...

(born 1962) * José Guadalupe Posada *

Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...

(1886–1957) * Verónica Ruiz de Velasco (born 1968) * David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974) *

Rufino Tamayo Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, ...

(1899–1991) * Francisco Toledo (1940–2019) * José María Velasco Gómez (1840–1912)

Nicaragua

* Pablo Antonio Cuadra, graphic artist *

Omar D'León Omar D'León (1929 – August 26, 2022) was a Nicaraguan painter and poet. 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 *

Franck de Las Mercedes Franck de las Mercedes (born 1972 in Masaya, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan American visual artist, poet and photographer who lives and works in New York City. Franck's experience as a child in war-torn Nicaragua, the visual clash of New York's graffi ...

, artist *

Armando Morales Armando Morales (January 15, 1927 – November 16, 2011) was an internationally renowned Nicaraguan painter. Morales is considered one of the most important painters of Nicaragua. Morales, who was born in Granada, Nicaragua, received many awar ...

, painter * Hugo Palma-Ibarra, painter *

Gabriel Traversari Gabriel Traversari (born Gabriel Augusto Traversari y Debayle on September 7, 1963) is a Nicaraguan American actor, director, writer, singer, songwriter, painter and photographer. Early life Traversari was born in Los Angeles, California, bu ...

, painter * Julio Valle Castillo, painter *

Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...

, poet

Panama

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 ...

, writer (1922–2012) * Chafil Cheucarama, Wounaan painter, carver, and illustrator * Guillermo Trujillo, painter (1927–2018) * José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, writer, photographer (1971) * Marco Ernesto (1923–1985) * Antonio Jose Guzman *

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) *

Olga Sinclair Olga Sinclair (born 1957 in Panama City) is an artist and figurative painter. 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 ...

, painter * Rosa María Britton, artist, writer

Peru

Pablo Amaringo Pablo Cesar Amaringo Shuña (January 21, 1938 – November 16, 2009) was a Peruvian artist, renowned for his intricate, colourful depictions of his visions from drinking the entheogenic plant brew ayahuasca. He was first brought to the West ...

* Teresa Burga *

Martín Chambi Martín Chambi Jiménez (November 5, 1891 – September 13, 1973) was a Peruvian photographer, originally from Puno, in southern Peru. He was one of the first major Indigenous Latin American photographers. Recognized for the profound historic and ...

, photographer * Alberto Dávila * Victor Delfín *

Fernando De Szyszlo Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar (5 July 1925 – 9 October 2017) was a Peruvian painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, printmaking, printmaker, and teaching, teacher who was a key figure in advancing abstraction, abstract art in Latin America ...

* Gloria Gómez-Sánchez * Johanna Hamann * Daniel Hernández (painter) * Hugo Orellana Bonilla * Carlos Enrique Polanco * Diego Quispe Tito * Susana Raab * José Sabogal * Josué Sánchez * Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao (1635–1710), painter *

Victoria Santa Cruz Victoria Eugenia Santa Cruz Gamarra (27 October 1922 – August 30, 2014) was an Afro-Peruvian choreographer, composer, and activist. Victoria Santa Cruz would go on to be called "the mother of Afro Peruvian dance and theatre." Along with her br ...

Fernando de Szyszlo Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar (5 July 1925 – 9 October 2017) was a Peruvian painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, printmaking, printmaker, and teaching, teacher who was a key figure in advancing abstraction, abstract art in Latin America ...

* Elena Tejada-Herrera *

Mario Testino Mario Eduardo Testino Silva OBE HonFRPS (born 30 October 1954) is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer. His work has featured internationally in magazines such as ''Vogue, V Magazine,'' ''Vanity Fair'' and '' GQ.'' He has also crea ...

, photographer *

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 ...

* Mario Urteaga Alvarado * Boris Vallejo *

Alberto Vargas Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982) was a Peruvian-American painter of pin-up girls. He is often considered one of the most famous of the pin-up artists. Numerous Vargas paintings have sold and continue to se ...

* Jorge Vinatea Reinoso * Marcos Zapata or Marcos Sapaca Inca (c. 1710–1773) painter

Puerto Rico

* Olga Albizu (1924–2005) * Allora & Calzadilla contemporary art duo * Alfonso Arana (1927–2005) * Ramón Atiles y Pérez (1804–1875) * Myrna Báez (1931–2018) *

José Campeche José Campeche y Jordán (December 23, 1751 – November 7, 1809), is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas. Campeche y Jordán loved to use colors that referenc ...

(1751–1809) * Daniel Lind-Ramos (born 1953) * Pablo Marcano García (born 1952) * Poli Marichal (born 1956) *

Soraida Martinez Soraida Martinez (born July 30, 1956 in Harlem, New York) is an American visual artist of Puerto Rican descent known for her contemporary abstract expressionist paintings and social commentary. She is the creator of the art movement, Verdadism. ...

(born 1956) * María de Mater O'Neill (born 1960) * Frieda Medín (born 1949) *

Francisco Oller Francisco Oller (June 17, 1833 – May 17, 1917) was a Puerto Rican painter. Oller is the only Latin American painter to have played a role in the development of Impressionism. One of the most distinguished transatlantic painters of his da ...

(1833–1917) * Sandra Perez-Ramos *

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 ...

(1955–2018) * Juan Sanchez (born 1954) * Joe Shannon (artist) (born 1933) * Alessandra Torres (born 1980)

Uruguay

Zoma Baitler Zoma Baitler (3 April 1908 in Šančiai, Lithuania – 16 June 1994 in Montevideo, Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders w ...

(1908–1994) *

Rafael Barradas Rafael Pérez Giménez Barradas (4 January 1890 in Montevideo – 12 February 1929 in Montevideo), was an Uruguayan modernist painter and graphic artist who worked in Spain. Biography His parents were immigrants from Spain. His older sister, Ca ...

(1890–1929) *

Eduardo Barreto Luis Eduardo Barreto Ferreyra (1954 – December 15, 2011) was a Uruguayan artist who worked in the comic book and comic strip industries including several years of prominent work for DC Comics. All of his children are artists. Two of them, D ...

Juan Manuel Blanes Juan Manuel Blanes (June 8, 1830 – April 15, 1901) was a noted Uruguayan painter of the Realism (art), Realist school. Life and work Blanes was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1830. He was raised by his mother, with whom he relocated to the cou ...

(1830–1901) * Carlos Capelán (born 1948) * José Cuneo Perinetti (1887–1977) *

Eladio Dieste Eladio Dieste (December 1, 1917 – July 29, 2000) was a Uruguayan engineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, most of them in Uruguay and all of exceptional eleganc ...

(1917–2000) * Pedro Figari (1861–1938) * Haroldo González (born 1941) * José Gurvich (1927–1974) *

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) *

Carlos Páez Vilaró Carlos Páez Vilaró (1 November 1923 – 24 February 2014) was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor. Life and work Carlos Páez Vilaró was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1923. He to ...

(1923–2014) * Virginia Patrone (born 1950) * Daniel Pontet (born 1957) * Nelbia Romero (1938-2015) * Martín Sastre (born 1976) *

Joaquín Torres García Joaquín or Joaquin is a male given name, the Spanish version of Joachim. Given name * Joaquín (footballer, born 1956), Spanish football midfielder * Joaquín (footballer, born 1981), Spanish football winger * Joaquín (footballer, born 19 ...

(1874–1949) * Teresa Trujillo (born 1937) * Petrona Viera (1895–1960) *

José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín (5 September 1891 – 24 May 1975) was a Uruguayan sculptor and painter. One of the pivotal sculptors from Uruguay, his most significant impact was through the monuments he created in the capital city of ...

(1891–1975)

Venezuela

19th century Venezuelan artists (chronological order)

* Carmelo Fernández (1809–1897), artist and painter *

Martín Tovar y Tovar Martín Tovar y Tovar (10 February 1827 – 17 December 1902) was a Venezuelan painter, best known for his portraits and historical scenes. 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 *

Emilio Boggio Emilio Boggio (21 May 18577 June 1920) was an Italian- Venezuelan pioneering impressionist painter. In 1864 he traveled to France and studied at the Lycée Michelet in Paris until 1870. In 1873, he returned to Caracas and dedicated himself to th ...

(1857–1920) painter * Cristóbal Rojas (1857–1890) *

Arturo Michelena Francisco Arturo Michelena Castillo (; 16 June 1863 – 29 July 1898) was a Venezuelan painter known for his historical and genre scenes and portraits. Biography His father, Juan Antonio Michelena (1832-1918) was also a painter. His mothe ...

(1863–1898), painter

20th century Venezuelan artists (chronological order)

* Federico Brandt (1878–1932), painter * Armando Reverón (1889–1954), painter *

Manuel Cabré Manuel Cabré (January 25, 1890 – February 26, 1984) was a noted Spanish-Venezuelan landscape painter who is remembered as "the painter of El Ávila" ( es, link=no, El pintor de El Ávila). Life and career Cabré was born on January 25, 1890 ...

(1890–1984), painter * Juan Félix Sánchez (1900–1997), folk artist in weaving and sculpture * Francisco Narváez (1905–1982), sculptor * Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912–1994), a.k.a. "Gego" * César Rengifo (1915–1980) * Gabriel Bracho (1915–1995) * Braulio Salazar (1917–2008) * Mario Abreu (1919–1993) * Alejandro Otero (1921–1990) *

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) *

Oswaldo Vigas Oswaldo Vigas (August 4, 1926 – April 22, 2014) was a Venezuelan artist, best known as a self-taught painter and muralist. His work includes painting, sculptures, prints, drawings, ceramics and tapestries. His artwork was created in France and ...

(1923–2014) *

Carlos Cruz-Díez Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019) was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been "one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century." Exhibitions * ''Physichromies de Cruz-Diez: Oeuvres de 1954 à 1965' ...

(1923–2019) * Elsa Gramcko (1925–1994) * Pedro León Zapata (1928–2015), artist, humorist and cartoonist * Mariano Díaz (photographer) (born 1929), journalist, photographer, designer, writer *

Lía Bermúdez Lía Bermúdez (August 4, 1930 – October 22, 2021) was a Venezuelan sculptor. 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) *

Marisol Escobar Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 – April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obsc ...

(1930–2016), sculptor *

Jacobo Borges Jacobo Borges (born 28 November 1931 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a contemporary, neo-figurative Latin- American artist. His curiosity for exploring different mediums made him a painter, drawer, film director, stage designer and plastic artist. Kn ...

(born 1931), neo-figurative artist * Juan Calzadilla (born 1931), poet, painter and art critic * Julio Maragall (born 1936), sculptor *

Harry Abend Harry Abend, OFM (5 May 193718 January 2021) was a Polish-born Venezuelan sculptor and architect. Abend immigrated to Venezuela in 1948 and embarked on his sculpture practice in 1958 under the guidance of Miguel Arroyo while also studying archi ...

(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) *

Arturo Herrera Arturo Herrera (born 1959) is a Venezuelan visual artist who exhibits internationally, known for his melding of cartoons and collage. He has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dia Center For The Arts, Centro Galego de Ar ...

(born 1959)

Contemporary Venezuelan artists (chronological order)

* María Rivas (1960–2019), Latin jazz singer, composer, and occasional painter * Julio Aguilera (born 1961), painter and sculptor * Carla Arocha (born 1961) * José Antonio Hernández-Díez (born 1964) * Jaime Gili (born 1972) *

Hermann Mejia Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * 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)

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