About Raúl Galvez
"He is a talented Canadian artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is known for his pen & ink drawings which show humour, imagination and social comment. In his art one senses an air of freedom, yet a precise control of space an the overall aesthetic effect"
-Serge Villani, Editor, Litte Realite Journal, York University-
Raúl Galvez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where hestudied art for 5 years.Starting ink drawing at the age of 12, he then went into oil painting and sold his first work 25 years ago in Argentina.
At the University of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, he read law for three years, but switched to filmmaking, graduating from the National Film Institute. In 1980 he came to Canada, where he has written and directed films. In 1996 he took up pen & ink drawing again.
His drawings have been published in magazines in Canada and Argentina. In the last three years he has done four solo exhibitions - Buffalo, New York and Toronto - and completed numerous commissions.
Last exhibition:
The Queen West Art Crawl
-Artists open studios-
August, 2003
Recent commissions: Idea Viva Magazine (Cover), Buenos Aires; Alter Vox Magazine (Cover), Ottawa; York University (Poster Poet Rimbaud), North York; Literalite Magazine (3 drawings).
His work is to be found in private collections in Canada, England, and Argentina. Currently some of his pieces are exhibited at Angus & Company, Toronto.
He is also represented non-exclusively in Canada by
ARCHIVE INC. GALLERY
883 Queen St. West, Toronto
