PROFILE
| Full name: Hernando Benjamin Pereira Brieva |
| Place of birth: San Jacinto, Bolivar, Colombia |
| Birthdate: November 6, 1955 |
BIOGRAPHY
Hernando Pereira Brieva is a Colombian sculptor and painter born in San Jacinto, Bolívar, on November 6, 1955.
From 1972 to 1973 he began his art studies in the city of Cartagena, then he moved to Bogotá, where he studied Architecture and Advertising Art at the Javeriana University, and was part of the workshop of David Manzur during 5 years.
In 2007 he received the degree of Master in Plastic Arts from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes University of Cartagena.
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Hernando Pereira has dedicated much of his life to teaching; He has taught at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and the CIDCA Foundation of Bogotá, at the Rafael Núñez University and at the Higher School of Fine Arts of Cartagena. He was named Program Director (dean) of the Faculty of Plastic Arts, and Director of the Program of Agreements with the Universidad del Atlántico and the District University of Bogotá.
For six years he was a screen printing teacher in his own workshop, a technique in which he was awarded as the winner of the First Screen Printing Seminar in Colombia, sponsored by Screen and ZBF Switzerland.
Hernando Pereira has participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions inside and outside Colombia.
OBRAS EN ESPACIOS PUBLICOS
- Sculpture to Adolfo Mejía (Cartagena – Colombia)
- Sculpture of the palenquera (Cartagena – Colombia)
- Man and energy sculpture (Cartagena – Colombia)
- Sculpture of the Condor of the bicentennial in (Mompox – Bolívar)
- Bust of Father Javier Cirujano Arjona (San Jacinto – Bolívar)
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