Professional Resume
Name: Carlos Viver
Date of Birth: December 17, 1946
Place of Birth: Quito, Ecuador
Profession: Painter, Carver
Education: Self-Educated
Solo Expositions
1970 Free Modern Art Institute Quito, Ecuador
1973 Pedro Leon Showroom Quito, Ecuador
1975 Altamira Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1977 Gorivar Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1978 Municipal Museum, Guayaquil Arts Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1979 Art Club Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1981 Sosa Larrea Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1983 One-Center Gallery Guayaquil, Ecuador
1984 IFA Gallery (Juana the Crazy Series) Bonn, Germany
1989 The Green Apple Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1989 French Alliance Quito, Ecuador
1990 La Guardia University Gallery New York, USA
1990 Spain House New York, USA
1990 The Green Apple Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1991 LArt Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1991 Praxis International Gallery Buenos Aires,
Argentina
1992 GZ Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1993 Exedra Gallery Quito, Ecuador
1994 Humanize Cultural Foundation (Erotomania Series) Quito, Ecuador
1995 The Toothpick Holder Gallery Cadiz, Spain
1996 Chuquiragua Art Gallery Quito, Ecuador
2000 Populace Cultural House, Azuay Core Quito, Ecuador
Group Expositions
He has been involved in more than 200 group expositions in and outside Ecuador.
1980 World Print Biennial San Francisco, USA
1985 Carving Biennial Krakow, Poland
1985 Valparaiso Biennial Valparaiso, Chile
1989 Cuenca Biennial Cuenca, Ecuador
1995 XI Overseer Art International Biennial Valparaiso, Chile
1995 Iberian American Theater & Art Festival Cadiz, Spain
1997 "Five Ecuadorian Painters" Group Exposition Santiago, Chile
Awards
1971 National Drawing Contest 2nd Place Culture House Ecuador
1973 Diogenes Paredes Gold Medal Ecuador
1975 Mariano Aguilera Showroom Honor Mention Quito, Ecuador
1977 Third National Drawing, Temper and Water Painting, and Carving
Contest Bronze Medal Quito, Ecuador
1978 9th Luis A. Martinez Showroom Contest 1st Place Ambato, Ecuador
1979 First Great National Award Paris Showroom Quito, Ecuador
1980 Mariano Aguilera Showroom 1st Place Quito, Ecuador
1983 October Showroom 2nd Place Guayaquil, Ecuador
1984 Culture House Painting Showroom Acquisition Award Quito, Ecuador
1997 "The 100 Years of Benjamin Carrion" Insignia
(This is a recognition Award given by the Benjamin Carrion
Ecuador Culture House. This was gave to him in recognition to the
Great Artistic Contribution into the Plastic Field)
Other Activities
He has been an instructor on several Carving and Serigraph workshops around
Ecuador and Pasto, Colombia.
He inaugurated and confirmed the Ecuador Cultural House Carving Workshop
for 2 years.
In 1995, he leaded the production of the Serigraphic Cover "7 for Life".
This was a homage and recognition to the contribution of the Restrepos Children Mother
(The children were missed by the government). He was the promoter of this initiative,
which united 7 recognized painters around the subject of the Human Rights and the Impunity.
He has been also involved in poetry and tale writing. He has produced several
audiovisual and video works. He has received movie training, and he has written some
movie scripts. Right now he is working on the script and video of "El oro negro"
(the black gold).
He was in charge of the general direction of "Tiro al Blanco al Pajaro Rojo"
(Target to the Red Bird) the Multimedia Show to commemorate the 30th anniversary
of the dead of Che Guevara.
