Jorge Camacho
About
Jorge Camacho was a Cuban-born self-taught artist renowned for his contributions to surrealism, blending dreamlike mystery with themes of the unconscious, identity, exile, and metaphysical reality. Born in Havana on January 5, 1934, he decided to become a painter at age 17 without formal training, influenced early by contemporaries like Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Giorgio de Chirico, Rufino Tamayo, and Wifredo Lam. He traveled to Mexico in 1953, studying pre-Columbian art with José Luis Cuevas, held his first solo exhibition in Havana in 1954, and relocated to Paris in 1959 on a Cuban government scholarship, where he met André Breton in 1961 and integrated into the surrealist circle.
Surrealism with dreamlike landscapes, abstracted forms, totemic figures, and motifs of exile, torture, and the metaphysical
Selected Exhibitions
- R. Cordier Gallery, Paris (1960)
- XIIéme Exposition Internationale du Surreálisme, Galerie Loeil (1965)
- Salón de Mayo (1967)
- Tate Modern (2022)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022)
- Centre Pompidou collection
- Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris collection