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Painter and printmaker. He completed studies in civil engineering in 1972 at the University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón Campus, and went on to study at the School of Visual Arts of San Juan, where he became friends with Dennis Mario Rivera y Jorge Zeno, and studied drawing and printmaking with Fran Cervoni and José Alicea. In 1976, he travelled to Spain to further his studies and, upon his return in 1977, he founded the Ausubo Gallery in Caguas. At the beginning of the eighties, he studied painting in the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Puerto Rico. Since 1987 he has organized several solo exhibitions and has taken part in some group shows, including a meeting of painters of the world in Cuzco, Peru in 2002. He has won several awards, and in 2007 the Municipality of Caguas declared him Adopted Son of the city. He served as resident artist of the Altos de Chavón Foundation in the Dominican Republic (1997) and in the Center for Humanistic Studies Dra. Josefina Camacho de la Nuez at the University of Turabo in Gurabo, Puerto Rico (2013‑2015). The elements that characterize his artwork are landscape, the human figure, social criticism, Expressionism, and, mainly, color. He has said that he is self-taught in painting.