Hernando Pereira Brieva

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 Cartagena, later moving to Bogotá, where he studied Architecture and Advertising Art at the Universidad Javeriana, and was part of David Manzur’s workshop for five years.

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In 2007, he received the degree of Master in Fine Arts from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of Cartagena.

Hernando Pereira has dedicated much of his life to teaching; he has lectured at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano and the Fundación CIDCA of Bogotá, at the Universidad Rafael Núñez, and at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes of Cartagena, where he was appointed Program Director (Dean) of the Faculty of Fine Arts, and Director of the Program of Agreements with the Universidad del Atlántico and the Universidad Distrital of Bogotá.

For six years, he was a screen-printing teacher in his own workshop, a technique in which he was awarded as winner of the First Screen-Printing Seminar in Colombia, sponsored by Screen House and ZBF Switzerland.

Hernando Pereira has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions inside and outside Colombia.

Works in Public Spaces

• Escultura de la Manzana (Centro Comercial Gran Manzana Cartagena, Bolívar)
• Escultura del Dr. Elías Bechara (Universidad Del Sinú Cartagena).
• Escultura a Adolfo Mejía (Cartagena – Colombia)
• Escultura de la palenquera (Cartagena – Colombia)
• Escultura Hombre y energía (Cartagena – Colombia)
• Escultura del Cóndor del bicentenario (Mompox – Bolívar)
• Escultura Águila en bronce obelisco (Lorica – Córdoba).
• Busto del Padre Javier Cirujano Arjona (San Jacinto – Bolívar)