José Ventura was born in 1955 in the village of San Pedro Nonualco, El Salvador. He went to school in the village and drove his teachers to despair by covering his note books with drawings instead of doing the work he was assigned.

He moved to the capital, San Salvador when he was 17 in order to attend art school. Three years later, armed with a diploma in architectural drawing, he joined the National Museum of Anthropology of San Salvador to work first as a graphic designer, then as a model maker.

All the while, he strove to develop his art and took part in many exhibitions. He won a scholarship from the Organization of American States and went to study museography in Mexico, then returned to his country where already, the political situation was deteriorating…(read more)

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