Javier Arevalo (29 April 1937 – 12 February 2020) was a contemporary Mexican artist whose work was the subject of many exhibitions, worldwide, including in Europe, Latin America, United States, Mexico and Japan.
When he was ten years old he won first prize at a contest for children in Guadalajara and began studying drawing, painting and calligraphy with a painter named Jorge Martínez, an assistant to Orozco.
He then spent a year traveling the coasts of Jalisco and Nayarit painting landscapes, culminating with his first show, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Museums in Mexico, Switzerland, Colombia, Spain, Costa Rica, the United States, Uruguay, Japan, and Israel have acquired works of his.
[2] His works participated in a number of competitions, winning first prize at the Tokyo Biennale in 1970, and a watercolor award at the first National Certamen of Plastic Arts.
In 1993, his painting Caballero en un caballo ensillado won an award at the tenth Biennial of Latin America and the Caribbean in San Juan, Costa Rica.