Carlos Bueno was a draftsman, painter and muralist who helped launch the Chicano art movement in the 1970s as co-founder of
Self-Help Graphics & Art.
Bueno was born in
Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca (; , "near the woods" , Otomi language, Otomi: ) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state, state of Morelos in Mexico. Along with Chalcatzingo, it is likely one of the origins of the Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican civilizatio ...
,
Mexico
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, but lived in the United States throughout the 1970s before returning to Mexico for the final years of his life.
Along with his partner, the photographer
Antonio Ibañez
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, he helped to found Los Angeles' annual Día de los Muertos/
Day of the Dead
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celebration.
He was largely known for his drawings and while he painted a number of murals in his lifetime, only one or two survive. In April 2001, just months before his death, he had a solo exhibit at The Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park.
He died on August 18, 2001, in
Mazatlan, Mexico.
References
2001 deaths
People from Cuernavaca
20th-century Mexican painters
Mexican muralists
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