Prieto, Luis

Grandson of the writer Jenaro Prieto, he left the Academy of Fine Arts, where he had enrolled, to travel to New York, drawn by the buzz of pop art. He returned to Santiago in 1968, and in 1970, he had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. He later held solo exhibitions at the Goethe Institute and the University Parish, as well as many group exhibitions after joining the AFI in 1986. During this time, he began distributing his "artist's notebooks," in which he developed an intertextual work combining drawings, poetry, and photography. In his work, he captures a plurality of social actors to give a very personal vision of the urban fabric.