Alvaro Barrios

Álvaro Barrios Vasquez (Cartagena de Indias, 27 October 1945) is a Colombian conceptual artist and cartoonist. He has lived in Barranquilla since he was six months old, the city which he considers his hometown. He did his primary and secondary education in Barranquilla and entered the University of Atlántico to study architecture, which he abandoned to study Art History in Perugia and Venice in Italy. Since he was eight years old, he studied painting and drawing in the Barranquilla School of Fine Arts.