Hugo Sánchez Bonilla
artist
Hugo Sánchez Bonilla (born February 1, 1940, in Heredia, Costa Rica) is an artist.
Career
Sánchez taught at the Autonomous University of Central America (UACA). Since 1984 he has continued to teach at his personal art school.
Individual shows
1977 La Nación Main Hall
1978 Costa Rica Country Club.
1978 Surgeons and Doctors Association Board.
1980 Kamakiri Gallery
1983 Enrique Echandi Gallery
1991 Heredia City Hall
2001 Club Union
He has participated in over 170 group artshows in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, Germany, Venezuela, Brazil, United States, France, Colombia, England and Tokyo.
Awards
1972 First Prize: Latin American reform for penitentiary system symposium.
1978 Honor Certificate for Annual Watercolor Hall of the Costa Rican Museum of Art
1979 First Prize: Oil paint, Heredian painters contest, sponsored by Max Jimenez association (painting: "un amigo").
1979 First Prize: National Association of professors' contest. (painting: "los canasteros" -native bags hand crafters-)
1982 Honor Certificate for the Chinese Culture contest with the painting "bodegon"
1982 Silver Medal for the Second Watercolor Art show Margarita Berthau.
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