Galo Galecio Taranto (June 1, 1906 in Vinces – April 14, 1993 in Quito) was a prominent Ecuadorian painter, muralist, sculptor, caricaturist, and printmaker, whose work is known for its political content and recurring theme of Afro-Latin American life and culture.
[3][1] Following the change in government, he received a two-year scholarship from Ecuador's Ministry of Education to study mural painting and printmaking at Mexico's National Academy of Fine Arts.
[3] In Mexico, he studied with famous muralist Diego Rivera, and became a member of the highly politicized printmaking workshop Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP).
[1][3] While working at the TGP, Galecio created a series of 28 woodcut engravings to illustrate the book of poetry Tierra, Son y Tambor: Cantares Negros y Mulatos, by the Afro-Ecuadorian writer Adalberto Ortiz, published in Mexico in 1945 by Ediciones La Cigarra.
[3][1] In 1956, Galecio won the Badalona Prize at the Spain's III Hispano-American Art Biennial, with a woodcut engraving titled El entierro de la niña negra (The Burial of the Black Girl).