MISSION STATEMENT: To promote and support the arts and community in south Florida through events and education. Supporting visual arts, dance, fashion, music, written word, design, theatre, and all other forms of creative expression.
Director Profile: R. E. SANCHEZ, Artistic Director - R. E. Sanchez is a Miami-based artist whose work has been exhibited regularly in non-profit organizations and gallery venues. He is a Salvadoran expatriate who in 1989 relocated to the U.S. to pursue his passion for art. He received his Bachelor of Art (BFA) from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000.
Since 1994 he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In 2000 he was part of a very prestigious show for Artlink@Sothebys that traveled through Chicago Illinois, Vienna Austria and Tel Aviv Israel. In 2004 his work was presented in New York for the AAF Contemporary Art Fair as part of Miami-based Bettcher Gallery. During this year, he was awarded his first solo show at SBI Miami.
Most recently his work has been exhibited as part of juried shows which have included The Hibiscus 1st Juried Art Exhibition at The Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta Florida, 20 x 20 x 20 A National Compact Competition at Louisiana State University’s Union Art Gallery in Baton Rouge Louisiana, The Blanche Ames National Juried Exhibition at The Ames Mansion at Borderland State Park in North Easton Massachusetts and Field of Vision: Beijing at the Beijing New Art Projects in Beijing China. His work can be found in many private collections.
EMAIL: sanchez@lifeisartfest.org