Background
Ayoroa (also known as Rudy Ayoroa, Rodolfo East Ayoroa, Rudy Aroyoa, Rudy Ayora) was born in Louisiana Paz, Bolivia on September 16, 1927. In the mid 1980s he moved to Danville, Kentucky with his wife, Jane, who was born there.
Ayoroa (also known as Rudy Ayoroa, Rodolfo East Ayoroa, Rudy Aroyoa, Rudy Ayora) was born in Louisiana Paz, Bolivia on September 16, 1927. In the mid 1980s he moved to Danville, Kentucky with his wife, Jane, who was born there.
He was educated at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Robert Ayoroa. In 1964, he moved to Washington, District of Columbia and was a visiting professor at American University. Ayoroa was at the forefront of the kinetic art movement in the mid-1950s. His paintings are filled with geometric elements and contrasts of warm and blue colors.
His sculptors are made with Plexiglass bent into geometric shapes to look like perpetual motion.
Ayoroa"s art hangs in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Library of Congress.
National Museum of American. Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of Modern of Latin America at the Organization of American States, Museum of Modern in Bogota, Columbia and National Museum of Fine s in Louisiana Paz, Bolivia.
During his time in Danville, he developed an interest in painting Civil War battle scenes and did many pictures of the Battle of Perryville. He was commissioned by Lebanon to sculpt Major General John Hunt Morgan. 2003 Greater Loveland Historical Museum, Loveland, Ohio
2001 Museum of the Civil War, Bardstown, Kentucky
1997 Chaing Kai-Shek Memorial Center, Tai Pei, Taiwan
1996 Teledyne Corporation, Lebanon, Kentucky
1994 Taipinquiri Gallery and Center, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
1994 EMUSA Gallery, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
1993 EMUSA Gallery, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
1991 Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia 1990 EMUSA Gallery, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
1989 Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
1988 Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia 1982-1983 Multiple Galleries in Louisiana Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, Bolivia
1981 San Diego Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
1980 Norton Center for the s, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky
EMUSA Gallery, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia 1979 Gallery Uno, Dos, Tres, San Salvador, El Salvador
El Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Fayetteville Museum of, North Carolina
1977 Genesis Galelry, New York City
Museum of Contemporary, Bogota, Colombia
EMUSA Gallery, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
Lorenz Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
National Museum of Fine, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
1976 Washington World Galley, Washington, District of Columbia Huber Gallery, Washington, District of Columbia National Library, San Jose, Costa Rica
1974 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, District of Columbia National Academy of Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia 1969 Group Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
1968 Casa del e, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Pan American Union (Organization of American States), Washington, District of Columbia 1967 Asociación Estimulo de Bellas es, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Ayoroa, Bóto, Vardánega)
1956 San Andres University, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
Bolivian-German Cultural Institute, Louisiana Paz, Bolivia
1981-1982 Visiting Professor of, San Francisco Xavier University, Sucre, Bolivia
1974-1975 Visiting Professor of, American University, Washington, District of Columbia
critic Marta Traba, who founded the Museum of Modern in Bogot said that Ayoroa was "one of the truly great artists of his generation coming from Latin America."
He died in Danville, Kentucky in on October 31, 2003.