Bio

Born in San Salvador in 1950 and emigrated to the United States in 1975, he currently lives in Los Angeles, where he has been co-founder of various cultural groups and artist discussion circles among them are the Group of Salvadoran Artists (GAS), the Central American Cultural Center (CCC), and La Piedra Artist Collective on which he currently presides over. He began his art studies at the age of 11 at the School of Plastic Arts of the National Directorate of Fine Arts in San Salvador. He has also studied ceramics, sculpture, and engraving in Los Angeles, CA but considers his theoretical training in the arts is self-taught. In his figurative expressionism, he addresses serious themes with a mixture of irony, mischief, and humor.

Ricardo has participated in numerous exhibitions in Los Angeles since 1979, and considers that among the most important, due to its meaning and content are: Collective polyptych “Puta Patria” exhibited in Mount St. Mary’s College and traveling to various locations in Los Angeles (Pre-forum of Sao Paulo, concert “América Te Hablo de Ernesto” in Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Peace Festival at Bishop Alemany Catholic High School, CSUN). During September and October 2010 “Art Heals” at BGH Gallery in Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, California. In October 2001 “Statement of Silence” by international movement against torture at “GAS Gallery” in Los Angeles, CA. In June 2000 “El Norte” at “Joslyn Fine Arts Gallery” in the City of Torrance (currently the Torrance Art Museum). In October 1999, “The Great Table” Collective monumental polyptych of 14 pieces exhibited in the Pinacoteca of the National University of El Salvador and taken to other four cities in the country managed by the Salvadoran Workers Association of Art and Culture (ASTAC) in 1998, and previously exhibited in the space of exhibitions of the Teatro Presidente of San Salvador by CONCULTURA in 1997. “In the Name of Peace” Public monument installed in the Exposition Park of Los Angeles, directed by Eva Cockcroft in 1990. “A La Pasarraya” Group exhibition in “Galería Otra Vez” by Self Help Graphics in December 1986. “De Cara al Sol” Outdoor exhibition in September 1979.