Fernando Paes is a Brazilian plastic artist who lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico since 1996. Currently Catedrtico desempea as Assistant in the Department of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey. His work focuses mostly plastic in the middle of the painting that presents a constant dialogue with time, history and modern archetypes. Fernando was born Brasilia, Brazil in 1967. Estudiarte in the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage 1987 to 1992. His principal teachers were Beatriz Milhazes, Daniel Senise, Milton Machado and Charles Watson. Aprofundamento Formparte the nucleus of the College in the year 1990. It was a nucleus of students who, for a year, had to devote himself exclusively to his work in a group workshop in the school. During the criticisms recibisemanalmente PERIOD (closed or open) of six teachers of the school. At the end of the PERIOD, the exhibition organizuna reflect it collective creative process of each member. In 1993 he traveled to Mexico to join the Academy of San Carlos in its program of Master in Visual Arts. Get in touch with the work of Mexican and Latin American artists including the most influential: the Argentinian Guillermo Kuitca, the Puerto Rican and Julio Arnaldo Roche gallon of Mexico. The theme of the masters thesis leads to the concept of individual exhibition in the Academy Galeras. The Cultural Cannibalism revisited by a contemporary look in the paint. Once on the island of Puerto Rico in 1995, began to organize the exhibition entitled Navigare necesse where many of the concepts of his master thesis. The exhibition was inaugurated in 1997 at the Old Arsenal de La Puntilla in Old San Juan. At that time a member of the faculty of the School of Plastic Arts in San Juan, Department of Painting.