BIO

(El Salvador, 1979)

Luis Cornejo studied an Art degree with a specialization in painting, at the School of Arts of the University of El Salvador (2007). In 2010 he obtained a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, Germany. From the beginning of his career he inclined to the representation of the human figure, specifically portraiture. To develop his work, Cornejo uses photographs found in magazines, advertising or social media, and fuses them with characters from the world of comics, cartoons and video games in order to create a hybrid that merges the border between the real and the recreated. His language and visual style are the result of Cornejo’s interest in Renaissance painting and the world of cartoons, which fascinated him since his childhood.