Sobre el Artista

Luis Jacinto Argumedes was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama. Lives in Montreal, Canada, since 1990. He studied art at the National School of Fine Arts of Panama (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plàsticas, 1985) and completed a BFA at Concordia University in Montreal (1999) with a Major in painting and drawing. He also studied ceramics at Bonsecours Ceramic Center of Old Montreal in 1995. He has showed his artwork in both solo and group exhibitions in Panama, Canada, the United States and France. Some of them are 'Obra Reciente' (Galeria Anonimous, Panama City, 1994); 'Le Premier Salon de L'Amérique Latine en France' (Espace Champerret, Paris, 1994); 'Caribbean Realities, Toots and Routes' (Museum of the Americas, South Carolina, USA, 2003); 'Las Americas, Six regards sur le Continent Américain' (Festival Latinarte, Maison d'Italie, Montreal, Canada, 2012); 'Art of the Americas' (Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2018), Etc. His paintings are mostly produced with acrylics on canvas and his drawings, made with ink on handmade paper; he also does water colours on hand papers. His artwork is inspired by nature with a huge amount of symbolism in which women, horses, trees, fruits mix with one another and with the landscape or seascape to create a visual 'poem'.