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Painter, printmaker, filmmaker, and sculptor. In 1970, he earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, United States. Afterwards, he did postgraduate studies in film at the School of Visual Arts in 1973 and at WNET Film and Television School in 1976. He was co-founder in 1970 of Taller Boricua in New York where currently he is its Artistic Director. Dimas has been recipient of  multiple scholarships and awards and his work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Europe, United States, Puerto Rico and Caribbean. His work combines pre-Columbian Taino symbols with current abstract and figurative forms to create a fusion between ways of seeing past and present. His poetic symbol laden paintings are based on transcriptions of common sights and sounds, popular music and dreams.