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A talented muralist creating vibrant, large-scale public artworks that celebrate labor, industry, culture, and community. Their distinctive style features bold figures, intricate details, and powerful social themes rendered across building facades and public spaces. These murals bring energy and artistic expression to urban environments.

Acompañe al Dr. Rafael Lara Martínez en una conversación sobre textos inéditos de Ricardo Aguilar en la Universidad Luterana Salvadoreña en San Salvador. Este evento académico ofrece una oportunidad única para explorar obras literarias poco conocidas en un ambiente universitario. La conversación se realizará el 26 de septiembre de 2026, de 9am a 11am en el Aula 14A. Universidad Luterana, camino de Los Planes de Renderos, Km 3.

Mauricio Linares-Aguilar was born in Ahuachapán, El Salvador in 1966. The artist works in a variety of media, often locally sourced, seeking concrete relationships of color, form, and light that paradoxically suggest the infinite possibilities inherent in our lives. He produces paintings, drawings, printmaking works, photographs, installations and other interdisciplinary oeuvres. Linares-Aguilar has participated in several group exhibitions around the world, and he also has exhibited his work individually nineteen times. He received his Bachelor of Arts, BA at the Applied School of Arts, Jose Matias Delgado University, El Salvador. Then, the Master of Fine Arts, MFA at the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences of the University of Arkansas, USA. He also holds a master degree in Jewelry History and Design, MA from Siena University, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the Fine Arts Department of Complutense of Madrid University, Spain, with his research and thesis focused on water and titled Social Imagination and Water Visual Depiction in Mesoamerica. Linares-Aguilar is a Fulbright Alumni, AECID Ibero-American Creators Residence Program Fellow and FANTEL Talent Fellow. Linares Aguilar is also curator and Fine Arts Appraisal registered by the Superintendence of the Financial System of El Salvador, SSF and affiliated to the Salvadoran Chamber of Valuation, CSV. Also, he is member of the Panamerican Union of Appraisals Associations, UPAV.