Born in Guatemala in 1978, Jorge Chavarría is an artist and photographer. His work explores themes such as gender, culture, identity, nature, and social phenomena. His practice lies at the intersection of documentary photography, design, and contemporary art. He studied Systems Engineering at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and is a self-taught photographer specializing in analog darkroom processes. His work has been exhibited in major galleries and museums in Guatemala, as well as in galleries and festivals in countries including Japan, France, El Salvador, the United States, Puerto Rico, England, and Spain. In recent years, his artistic production has focused on the use of nineteenth-century photographic processes, including wet plate collodion, silver gelatin printing, albumen printing, cyanotype, carbon printing, kallitype, photogravure, salt printing, and daguerreotype. Among his solo exhibitions are: 2025 — El peso de lo frágil, Sol del Río, November; 2023 — El hoy es pasado… el mañana un esbozo, Museo Ixchel, March; 2023 — Los Archivos, GuestHouse, January; 2021 — Quimeras y la necesidad de desaparecer, Sol del Río, October; 2018 — Sinergia, Museo Ixchel, May; 2016 — Metapaisajes, Trama; 2011 — Nosotros, Festival Foto30, Cantón Exposición, Fundación G&T, September; 2011 — Lucha diaria, Festival ESFoto 11, Centro Cultural de la Embajada de México, El Salvador, September. Among the group exhibitions: 2022 — Cajal, una visión artística, Zaragoza, Spain; 2021–2022 — Daguerrotipo contemporáneo, traveling exhibition in Latin America; 2019–2025 — Juannio; 2021 — Fractálisis, La Nueva Fábrica, Antigua Guatemala; 2017 — Guatemala, From 33,000 KM, Santa Barbara Museum, California, United States; 2014 — Renaissance of Photography, Getty Images Museum, London, September; 2014 — Photo Annual Awards, Czech Republic, June; 2014 — XIX Bienal de Arte Paiz, CCE Guatemala, June; 2010 — Festival Guatephoto, Museo de Arte Moderno de Guatemala.
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