Carlos Ewray Torres

I was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in the year of 1973. I am the youngest of eight brothers and sisters. I grew up in a neighborhood of Ponce known as El Tuque. Since childhood I was always attracted to art. I never received a direct instruction on how to work the art. I was learning everything on my own. Over the years, I was attracted to the idea of ​​becoming a Visual Arts teacher. Beginning my senior year of high school, I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis which led me to miss that school year. I could not walk, my hair fell out and the psoriasis bled at the slightest contact. As I recovered from my illness, my interest in art increased. I was able to finish my fourth year of high school and I began to study at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, the Bachelor Degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in Visual Arts in 1992. During my university years, I worked as an assistant restorer at the Art Museum of Ponce where I learned how to restore sculptures and mural paintings. Also, I had the opportunity to work as a picture guard.Through this work I was able to appreciate and value the great Puerto Rican painters and their works such as José Campeche, Francisco Oller and Río Rey. Also, I had the...

Bachelor Degree in Secondary Education with concentration in Visual Arts.

I am a retired teacher due to disability.

I remember one of my Art's professors, Mr. Julio Michelli, who said, "You paint with poetry". Those words are recorder in my mind and my heart.

1992 Specialized School of Fine Arts Miguel Pou in Ponce

1992 Encarnación Valdés Library of Pontifical Catholic
University of Puerto Rico in Ponce

1994 Ponce Town Hall

1996 Encarnación Valdés Library of Pontifical Catholic
University of Puerto Rico in Ponce

1997 Antigua Aduana Museum in the town of Arroyo,
Puerto Rico

2012 Ponce Cultural Center Carmen Solá de Pereira