Marcelo Ferder, architect, designer, and plastic artist, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1958. From 1988 to 1990 he traveled as a performance artist sponsored by the government of Argentina, covering the entire American continent and compiling a portfolio of more than 10,000 drawings, paintings, and photographs.

From 1990 to 1993 he lived in New York,where in 1993 he was awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the Venezuelan Consulate for his contribution to Latin American culture. He has lived in the Dominican Republic since 1993, when he became director of product design at the renowned Altos de Chavón School of arts. In 1995, he founded Diseños Mamey, a center dedicated to the design and fabrication of recycled paper products inspired by pre Columbian and Afroamerican iconography. From 1998 to 2000 he created “House Calls,” a plastic arts project in the rural communities of El Limón and Los Arroyos in the province of San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic, where the towns themselves became the “canvas” on which houses were painted with artistic flair. His work has received major individual exhibits in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as New York, Boston and San Francisco.

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