Guillermo Trujillo
Guillermo Trujillo was born in 1927 in the small town of Horoncitos in Panama. He began his art studies in Panama City in 1941, and graduated as an architect from the University of Panama in 1953. He made several trips to Spain in the 1950s. In 1951 he won a scholarship to the Institute of Hispanic Culture to study painting, and from 1954 to 1958 he attended the Escuela de Ceramica de la Moncloa to study ceramics, gardening, and landscape design. At Moncloa he also became acquainted with other forms of modernism. Upon his return to Panama, Trujillo’s interest turned from architecture to painting, and he was offered a professorship of watercolor and composition at the University of Panama. He became enormously influential as a teacher for several decades, and he founded and directed the Las Guabas Ceramic Workshop from 1981 to 1984. His individual exhibitions span most of Latin America and include a retrospective at the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City. He has participated in groups exhibitions internationally, including the Biennials in Brazil, Mexico, and Columbia. Trujillo has also completed various murals in Panama and his works have been acquired by institutions such as the Museum of Modern art in Argentina, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama, the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, O.A.S. in Washington D.C. and the Yale University Museum. This painting was acquired during a visit with the artist in his studio in Panama
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