Venezuela, 1969 · Figurative painting

Alexis Fernández Salazar

Alexis Fernández Salazar was born in Caripito, Monagas State, in 1969. Between 1988 and 1995 he trained in workshops at the Cristóbal Rojas School of Visual Arts, Fundarte, the Federico Brandt School of Visual Arts, the Antonio Herrera Toro Workshop and the Ateneo de Caracas, continuing self-taught from 1996. He received first prize at the VIII National Meeting of Painters (Maracay, 1993) and the Young Artist National Prize of the Fundación Venezolana de Artes Plásticas (1996), and has exhibited in Venezuela, El Salvador, Panama, Puerto Rico, the United States and Spain. His documented subject matter turns on the house, childhood, imagination and play.