Javier Arevalo (born 29 April 1937) is a Mexican artist.
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Arevalo was born on 29 April 1937 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. His passion for art emerged in 1950 when he drew cover illustrations for textbooks for the medical school of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. In 1951 he won first place in a show for young artists in Guadalajara. During 1952-54 he studied calligraphy in a specialized school in western Guadalajara. He then spent a year traveling the coasts of Jalisco and Nayarit painting landscapes, culminating with his first show, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. In 1955 he volunteered as a teacher of calligraphy and lithography at the Academy of San Carlos. In the next years his work was shown at the Biennale de Paris, in the Municipal Gallery of Guadalajara, and at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.[1]
Arevalo began his professional art training at the School of Arts and Letters at Guadalajara in 1957. Then he went to the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, where he studied Classical Arts and plastic arts, with special classes by David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. During his studies he also gave a number of shows throughout Latin America, in Spain, and in New York City. He graduated with a degree in Classical Arts in 1963.[2]
After college, Arevalo continued to paint. His artwork has been shown throughout Latin America and in the United States, Canada, and France.[3] Museums in Mexico, Switzerland, Colombia, Spain, Costa Rica, the United States, Uruguay, Japan, and Israel have acquired works of his.[4] He won the National Award of Art in 1866, first prize at the Tokyo Biennale in 1970, and a watercolor award at the first National Certamen of Plastic Arts. In 1993, his painting Caballero en un caballo ensillado won an award at the tenth Biennale of Latin America and the Caribbean in San Juan, Costa Rica.[5]