Omar dleon biography
- Omar D'León (1929 – August 26, 2022) was a.
- Omar D'León was a Nicaraguan painter and poet.
- Omar d'Leon is one of the most renowned painters and poets to come from Nicaragua in the last 50 years.
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Nicaragua 1939
Contemporary Art
Omar de Leon was born in 1939 and raised in Nicaragua.
His studies included nine years at the "Escuela de Balles Artes", under the guidance of its accomplished director, Don Rodrigo Penalba.
In 1970 de Leon founded a museum in Managua, called the Museo-Galeria 904. His own financial contribution and the generous cooperation and participation of leading artists insured its success. The rapidly growing collections represented the arts of Nicaragua from pre-Hispanic times to the present, and was considered to be one of the most complete collections in the country. The disastrous earthquake of December 1972 inflicted some damage, but many of the treasures were stolen or vandalized with only about 20% recovery. Omar's studio which was part of the museum was also vandalized and ransacked, the theft resulted in the loss of irreplaceable objects and documentation related to his artistic career.
Omar de Leon has received critical acclaim at every step of his career, and wherever he has
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Solo Exhibitions
2012 Paul Mahder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Ventura County Museum, Ventura, CA
The Americas Collection, Miami, FL
2008 Salinas Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2004 Palacio de La Cultura in Managua
2002 Retrospective de Omar d’Leon, National Theatre of Managua, Nicaragua
1998 Nicaraguan National Theater, Managua, Nicaragua
1997 Banco Mercantil – Managua, Nicaragua
Galeria Genesis, Managua, Nicaragua
The Americas Collection, Miami, FL
1995 Museo-Galeria Genesis – Managua, Nicaragua
1993 The Americas Collection, Miami, FL
Bond Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Museo Galeria Omar d’Leon – Managua, Nicaragua
Palm Street Gallery, CA
1989 Gallery Fernandez, CA
1988 Gallery Costa de Oro, CA
1987 Gallery Qualli, Mexico City, Mexico
1986 Ethinow Gallery, San Diego, CA
1983 Carnegie Museum, CA
1982 Museo de Tauroentum, France
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Omar D'León
Nicaraguan painter and poet (1929–2022)
Omar D'León (1929 – August 26, 2022) was a Nicaraguanpainter and poet.
D'León was born Omar D'León Lacayo y Estrada in 1929 in Managua, Nicaragua.
D'León studied nine years at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Nicaragua under its director Rodrigo Peñalba [es]. His early inspiration were the frescos of Pompeii, where he saw the use of cross-hatching and applied this technique to his love of the Impressionist school.
He founded a museum in Managua in 1970 named "Museo-Galeria 904". The museum's collection encompassed the arts of Nicaragua from pre-Hispanic to contemporary. In the earthquake of December. 1972, D'León's museum and studio were partly destroyed and later ransacked, vandalized and robbed. After the Sandinistas took power in Nicaragua, he moved to Camarillo, California .
In 1982, one of his paintings was reproduced in the form of a UNICEF stamp. His paintings are housed in many museums such as the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C., at the Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Ric
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