Carlos Chevez
Carlos Chevez was born in 1960 in Liberia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. The fourth of 10 children, at the age of six was given by his mother to a powerful cattle lord, so- in her words-“he would be fed”. He works as a “Sabanero” (Guanacaste’s cowboy) and rodeo man and spent his childhood and adolescence driving cattle through mountains, rivers and plains. He was accused, though never found guilty, in a case of cattle robbery and sent to prison for 16 years where he started drawing, painting and carving. He is one of 140 artists chosen to represent Costa Rica in the Biennial of Central America in Panama, 2004. He currently lives in Liberia, Costa Rica.
Solo Exhibitions
1995 Galeria del Diseno, San Jose, Costa Rica
1996 The Elect Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Galeria Bonheur, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1997 Main Street Gallery, Atlanta, USA
1997 Black Fine Art Show, Puck Building, Soho, New York
1999 Galeria Bonheur, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2000 Hotel Herradura, III Reunion de Ministros, San Jose, Costa Rica
Group Exhibitions
1996 Primitivist Art Fair, Chicago, USA
Primitivist Art Fair, New York
Primitivist Art Fair, New Haven, Conneticut, USA
Primitivist Art Fair, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1997 Primitivist Art Fair, New York
1998 Primitivist Art Fair, New York
2000 Primitivist Art Fair, New York
2004 “Naive Spring” Uri and Rami Nachushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov Meuchad, Israel