Luis Caballero Holguin

Luis Caballero Holguin studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and University of the Andes. The recorded working language is Spanish. Juan Antonio Roda and Francis Bacon are recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Luis Caballero Holguin is recorded in the collections of Banco de la República Art Collection.

• Name — Luis Caballero Holguin • Born — 27 August 1943 • Birthplace — Bogotá, Colombia • Died — 19 June 1995 • Place of death — Bogotá, Colombia • Field — Painting • Training — Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Caballero was born in Bogotá and raised in a conservative Catholic household. He studied at the University of Los Andes (Colombia) in 1961–62, where he met and was influenced by etcher artist Juan Antonio Roda and art critic Marta Traba. He continued his academic studies in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, graduating in 1964. It is during this time that he discovered Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon. Back in Colombia, in 1968, he won First Prize at the First Ibero-American Biennal of Medellín. Caballero returned to Paris where he found more freedom in 1969 and lived there until 1995, when he returned to Bogota for a special exhibition of his work at the Luis Ángel Arango Library. He died in June of the same year at the age of fifty-one. His figurative works are usually large scale mixed media oil, ink, watercolor washes on either canvas or paper, sometimes incorporating fabrics or rope in a limited range of muted sepia colors, often representing male nude figures, in a contemporary style marked by classic training. The Tate Museum in London acquired a work by the artist in 2023. In 2024, the first UK exhibition by the artist opened at Cecilia Brunson Projects curated by Daniel Malarkey.