Carlos Chavez was born San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala National School Studio Art. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS: 2006 Guatemala cultural bridge-Norway, Norway 2005 Weaving hope, Tokyo eizo, gallery, Japan 2001 Voices of the Earth, Stockholm, Sweden. Maya 1998 Contemporary Art, Traveling Exhibition in Norway. He has made several solo and group exhibitions in the galleries of Guatemala since 1990. (El Sereno, Site, Forum, Panza Verde, Antigua and others.) Has worked on various magazines and books, 2000 Journals of the University of San Carlos Guatemala 1997 Journal of Cultural La Ermita. CAUCE 1994 University Papers. He has taught art workshops for boys and girls in the rural area and the city. 2000 art workshops for children at La Casa del Patojo with Doctors Without Borders 2001 With "street children" with Casa Alianza. 1998 Art Workshop with children in returnee communities in San Francisco The tumbling, SayaxchPeten. His work was honored at the 8th. and 9. National Watercolor living room, his works are in private collections in North, Central and South America in different countries of Europe and Japan. SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THEIR WORK: "... The works of Carlos Chavez arise from a poetic reflection on the life that exists in the edge of death. This is, first, a anecdotal everyday spinning dreams, loves, and works, and the other of a fundamental reality, the source of pain, deep breaks and stripping. In allque over the desolate landscape that serves as background and support appear, including funeral flowers and symbols, characters austere and forthright in their faces the sadness shows their meager plenitude, and, as emerging from these subtle fantasies whose happiness is as intense momentneo delirium that precedes the final. It is no coincidence that the characters and the ambientacin of these works refer to the world indgena and rural, nor is it the poetic reflection of Carlos Chavez ambiguous scope in times of peace opens his most clear and full expression, is the requirement, full of reasons and realities, The times must continue to change. -John B. Juarez, art critic, taken from the USAC Journal, 1999 - "You called for living things: birds and creeks, roads and mountains men and women.'ve Called sea and land. The sky will fell over with star and moon, and in the basin of your hands grew the fruits of life and SurgiLas dance song for your children. and pick up the clarity to give the exact shade. It demands color as necessary for flight. And then pigeons and coves, moons and mountains, men and women, guided by your hand did the hope for life. " -Aspasia Zuleta, cultural promoter, Venezuela -