Jorge Mogrovejo Calle

Jorge Mogrovejo Calle, one of the Ecuadorian artist best known for his robust oneiric forms and surreal atmosphere has taught drawing, painting and ceramics at the University  of Azuay and at the Academy of Arts at the University of Cuenca in Ecuador.

He is not only a member of La Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana and its subsidiary in New Jersey, but also of the Ecuadorian-Brazilian Center and the cultural groups Ahora, Cunanmanta, Guapdondelic and ARA.

Mogrovejo was an official member in the jury for the Paris Painting Award held in Quito in 1998, and a member in the Organizing Committee of the VI Bienal Internacional de Pintura, in Cuenca, 1998.  Art curator in the Department of Culture in the municipality of Cuenca.

As a result of his intense cultural activity, Mogrovejo has received different decorations by the National Congress of Ecuador, Ecuadorian House of Culture, Government of Guayas, and the Azogues National Union of Educators in Ecuador.

The artist has had 36 solo exhibitions and 38 exhibitions sharing with other painters in his country.