Rimer Cardillo

Place: Montevideo

Born: 1944

Biography:

Rimer Cardillo is a Uruguayan visual artist and engraver of extensive international experience who has lived in the United States since 1979. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on August 17, 1944. Cardillo graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Uruguay in 1968 and completed postgraduate studies in East Germany at the Weißensee School of Art and Architecture in Berlin and at the Leipzig School of Graphic Art between 1969 and 1971. He has been a teacher of artists who have managed to develop solid personal careers such as Gladys Afamado, Margaret Whyte, and Marco Maggi. He is a tenured professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he is responsible for the direction of the graphic arts program. Cardillo's work is a grandiose dance, which narrates his commitment concerning the survival of the indigenous cultures and the conservation of the species and the natural forest.