Victor Manuel Guerra

Victor Manuel Guerra Arteaga (Machi): Cuban painter, draftsman and photographer living in New York. He was born in the city of Pinar del Río (Cuba) on July 6, 1989. His childhood was spent in this city, where from a very young age, he developed his vocation as an artist. Drawing was the favorite game of little Victor Manuel, who sometimes neglected even school subjects by scribbling on his notebooks images from his imagination. In his spare time, he used to model clay figures trying to imitate the faces of his maternal grandparents. The couple of elders lived in the countryside, and the boy was always delighted with the landscape that bordered their peasant dwelling, overlooking the coast from the portal and the mountain range from the patio, images that on more than one occasion he captured on his skateboards.