He attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali,[3] Colombia, where he started his first studies in the year 1938 with the founder and teacher Jesus Maria Espinosa.

Initially working in stone in styles reminiscent of European modernists like Jean Arp and Constantin Brâncuși.

[6] In 1963, he won the Salón de Artistas Colombianos, and therein became one of the most prominent Colombian sculptors of the 20th century.

In 1968, he was awarded the David E. Bright Sculpture Prize, at the Thirty-fourth Venice Biennial.

[7] In 2010, he was awarded “Grado de Oficial” by order of the Congress of Colombia.