Nelson Sambolín
"XXI Temporada de Teatro Internacional*" (1985)
"XXI Temporada de Teatro Internacional*" (1985)
Printmaker, graphic designer, painter, illustrator and professor. He received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in 1970 where he studied with Luisa Géigel, John Balossi and Carlos Marichal. In 1983 he completed a master’s degree from the Pratt Institute of New York. In the seventies, alongside Rafael Rivera Rosa and René Pietri, he founded the Bija Workshop after having created other workshops such as Quinqué. The Bija Workshop (1970‑1975) brought forth a great transformation of Puerto Rican graphic arts, which became more conceptual. He also founded the Graphic Arts Workshop at the Cultural Activities Department of the UPR where he worked from 1969 to 1981, and then became its director until 1986, a period in which numerous commemorative posters were produced for activities on the campus. He was a professor at the School of Architecture (1980‑1984) and the School of Public Communications (1987‑2000) of the UPR. His posters form part of important collections, including the Library of Congress. Music, especially Afro‑Antillean and jazz, is a main topic in his graphic and pictorial work. His graphic work also stands out for the creation of typographies, the freeform of the drawings and the refined composition that exalts the spaces.