Pedro Ipiña

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Pedro Antonio Ipiña (Born 1956) is one of El Salvador's most celebrated living artists, having gained international recognition capturing the spirituality of life by painting the harsh reality of his country history and its people in a beautiful mysterious world of magic dreams where the fantasy of a drawn poem or a fairy tale story deeply captivate us.

Born in El Salvador, Pedro Ipina is of Mayan and Spanish heritage and counts the adventurer “el negro Ipiña” (the black Ipiña) as one of his ancestors who came to America, for purposes of adventure, in the late 1500 from the Basque Country via Mexico.

Although Ipiña began his apprenticeship with the masters of the “Valera Lecha” school in his hometown and studied architectural drawing, his upbringing was marked by lack of traditional art venues such as museums a and formal fine art education.

Ipiña has been painting prolifically since the 1982, early in his career he was first recruited by the Master Carlos Cañas to help in the cupola mural of the El Salvador National Theater. Except for his earliest works, his style since the 80’s has varied slightly. He has worked independently ever since.

Mr. Ipina exhibits all over the world: Tokyo, Santo Domingo, Jerusalem, Tegucigalpa, Washington D.C, Guatemala City, Boston and Miami just to name a few museum showings.

His work has been bestowed with numerous international honors, including the government of Japan in the Salvadorean Pavillon in Tokyo, Japan (1993), the Secretary General of Venezuela (90’s), the President of the Organization of American States, Cesar Gaviria (1998) in Washington, D.C., the government of Israel through the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (1999), the Consulate of El Salvador in Boston, Massachusetts (2004) and the Gallery Punto Convergente de las Artes representing the Bush-Clinton Fund (2005) in San Salvador during the fund raising auction for the victims of hurricane Katrina.

Pedro Antonio Ipiña is married to Esperanza Orellana and has a son, Peter and two daughters Esperanza and Tridene who all are also artists.