Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas (24 October 1899 – 14 February 1950)[1] was a Bolivian painter who was a leader of the indigenous art movement during the first half of the 20th century.

[1][2] He was a student of Avelino Nogales, and then Julio Romero de Torres, who taught him in Spain.

[3] Rojas taught the American modernist painter Evelyn Metzger, whilst she was living in South America.

[4] He was the father of the noted mathematician, scientist and linguist Iván Guzmán de Rojas.

[citation needed] He died by suicide in La Paz.