Juan Cárdenas Arroyo (12 August 1939 – 15 December 2024) was a Colombian figurative painter.
From 1969 to 1972 he was professor of Painting, Drawing, and Anatomy, University of the Andes, Colombia.
[2] He participated in and won first prize in the 25th National Salon of Colombian Artists in 1974 for his self-portrait ("Autorretrato Dibujo").
Cárdenas was also involved with the 1994 re-design of the Colombian peso: he designed the $5,000 and $20,000 banknotes.
In 2022 he was awarded the Order of Boyacá, his country's highest peacetime decoration.