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Oswaldo Guayasamin

Oswaldo Guayasamin was an Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor. He was born in Quito to a native father and a Mestiza mother. He created a Pan-American portrait of human and social inequalities who reached international recognition.

He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Quito as a painter and sculptor. He held his first exhibitition when he was 23, in 1942.

In 1948 he won the first prize at the Ecuadorian Salon Nacional de Acuarelistas y Dibujantes. In 1955, at the age of 36, he won first prize at the Third Hispano-American Biennial of Art in Barcelona, for ''El ...

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