Javier Cabada

Javier Cabada studied at National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts, Lima and Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. The recorded working language is Catalan. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait.

• Name — Javier Cabada • Birth Name — Javier Arroyo Cabada • Born — 25 October 1931 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Spain • Spouse — Consuelo Pilares Cabada • Known for — painting • Education — National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts, Lima, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design • Occupation — Visual artist

Javier Cabada was born on October 25, 1931, in Barcelona, Spain. He studied painting at the National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts, Lima in Lima, Peru, under Óscar Allain Cottera. He also studied at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, and the Ecola Massana in Barcelona. He has lived in the United States since the early 1960s, and attained U.S. citizenship in 1976.

Cabada works as a painter, but has also worked as a printmaker. He counts Richard Serra, Francis Bacon, Frank Gehry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Alberto Giacometti among his artistic influences, not only for their style, but also for their process and perfectionist natures. He experimented with several different styles before settling on acrylic on canvas. His earlier work was considerably more figurative than his later abstract works and was generally cartoonish and whimsical. Many of his early subjects were flowers, dancers, and portraits of classical composers and musicians. From 1973 to 1983, his painting of Frédéric Chopin was on exhibition in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and his portrait of Elvis Presley featured on the front cover of Music Educator's Journal in 1970. In 2024, Cabada Contemporary was opened in Washington, D.C., a gallery featuring artwork by Javier and his daughter Sabrina.