BIOGRAPHY
Born in Chiclayo Peru, Chancafe studied drawing and painting between 1985 and 1989 at the National School of Autonomous Arts from Peru.
Em 1989 com propositos artísticos inicia uma viagem por sul america, realizando diversas exposiçoes in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
He arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1990, where he lived until November 2015. After living in New York for three years, he lived in New York for three years. returns to Brazil in 2019, where he resumes his work with new projects and exhibitions.
Awards
Chancafe participated in several visual arts salons in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, obtaining several awards, including bronze, silver, gold and two travel awards.
1996- Havana - Cuba trip prize at the PMRJ visual arts salon
1999- Gold Medal and Originality Award at the Plastic Arts Salon at Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro
2001- Milan-Italy trip award at the 1st MAIMERI Latin American Biennial held at the Latin America Memorial. -SÃO PAULO.
2006- First prize as the best work at the 54th visual arts salon of the Military Club in Rio de Janeiro.
2009- Gold Medal at the Environment Fair, held at Forte de Copacana RJ
2012- Trophy and Gold Medal as Best Work in the Salon at 1a Expoarte das Américas at the Antonio Berni Consulate General gallery in Rio de Janeiro
Chancafe has held several group and individual exhibitions, the most recent being:
Group Exhibitions
2010- "The Art of Colors," at the TRT Cultural Center (Downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2013- LXI Salon of Fine Arts in Piracicaba (São Paulo, Brazil)
2015- TREINTA X TREINTA -PARQUE DE LA AMISTAD (Lima, Peru)
2015- I PIRACICABA WATERCOLOR SALON (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2018- LIC ARTS OPEN Sring Exhibition (The Plaxall Gallery LIC - New York, USA)
2019- Featured art at the Germanic Society (Gávea - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2019- Meeting Point III, Art Gallery Servulo Gutiérrez (Lima, Peru)
Solo Exhibitions
1989- "Naked" (Santiago, Chile)
1997- "Abstrahere" IBCH (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2000- "Anábasis" CC Laura Alvim (Ipanema - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2004/2005- "The reverse of the reverse" CC Paschoal Carlo Magno (Niterói - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2015- 25 YEARS RETROSPECTIVE - CENTRO CULTURAL DO TRT RJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2015- "THE AGE OF INHUMANITY" HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF TAUBATE (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2016- Transparencies" (Astoria A&F gallery - New York, USA)
2022- Magna Feminam Mundi Gotlib Art Gallery (Copacabana - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Projects
2020- Chancafe finishes his project entitled "The XX poem is a triptych", started in New York in 2017 and finished in 2020 in Rio de Janeiro.
2020- Chancafe is currently working on his large format project: "The Opposites"