About the artist:

1956Born: Quito, Ecuador 1960Came to the United States 1977Pratt Graphics Extension Program 1979B.F.A. Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 1980The Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, NY 1982Artists/Teachers Institute, Stockton State College, NJ 1987M.F.A. Hunter College, New York, NY 1995Colombian Ecuadorian Association of America Award in the Visual Arts 1995Jersey City Museum, 'Award of Merit' 1995The Mayor's Office, 'Award of Merit' Awarded a full Fulbright Fellowship Awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant Lives and works in New York and New Jersey Exhibitions 2003 'Color the World with Peace,' exhibition traveling to Dallas, Poland, Yugoslavia 2002Nohra Haime Gallery, 'Omens in Grisaille,' New York (solo) 2002Nils Rykken Gallery, 'Painterly Paint,' The World (group) 2002Arij Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach (group) 2002The Morris Museum, 'Fine Art of Collecting,' Morristown, NJ (group) 2002 Kenkeleba Gallery, 'The Visual Image of Latino Artists,' New York Artists Guild Art Center, Rahway, NJ (group) 2002Exit Art, 'Reactions,' New York (group) 2002Nohra Haime Gallery, 'Art is Art,' New York (group) 2002 Spokane Falls Community College: 'Within the Landscape: Draper-Bastidas,' Spokane Falls, Washington (group) 2001Nohra Haime Gallery, 'Home, Home on the Range,' New York (solo) 2001Upper Usedan Gallery, 'After ArtOmi,' Bennington College, VT (solo) 2001HVCC Gallery, 'Soiled,' Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY (solo) 2000Art Museum of the Americas Washington, D.C. (solo) 2000Nohra Haime Gallery, 'Lines and Lies,' New York (solo) 2000 QCC Art Gallery, 'Rascal in La La Land,' Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY (solo)