Biography
Edgar Vega was born in Mayaguez Puerto Rico on the 29th December 1962. At an early age he discovers his artistic vocation being his father, also an artist, Sammy Vega, his first influence. He started his formal studies in art in the Osorio Academy in Mayaguez being just a kid. Later he studies drawing and advance painting with the Spanish painter Jose Azaustre. In 1979 he enrolls in the department of art of the Interamerican University of San German where he obtains a bachelors degree in painting and graphic arts.
Later he transfers to the University of Ole Miss in Oxford where his studies painting, sculpture, mural painting and amplifies his knowledge in graphic. He has attended numerous artistic workshops and seminars in different countries. He coordinated and taught in the art department of a private school in Mayaguez for a period of 7 years where he developed a curriculum of artistic education that he was able to share in Costa Rica and New York offering workshops and lectures on the subject. He directed the Gallery "Espacio Alterno" in Old San Juan where he had the opportunity of sharing and collaborating with different local and international artists in painting, sculpture and book presentations as well as other cultural activities.
As an independent artist he has exposed in international and local galleries and museums like Japan, England, Italy, France, United States, Costa Rica, Argentina, Spain and Puerto Rico. His work is part of the private collection of the Chipenham Castle in London, England. He has worked for the National Oceanic Association (NOA) with his paintings of marine animals at the brink of extinction. He did the painting of our blessed Carlos Manuel Rodriguez as an offering of the puertorrican people to the Pope Juan Pablo II delivered by the artist himself at the Vatican and which stayed installed in the museum of the Holy See in Rome.
He did the first sculpture of the Virgin Mary Mother of the Church patroness of the town of Caguas being commissioned in Rome by the Caguas bishop Father Ruben Gonzalez. He made the mosaic of the Virgin of Montserrat at the minor basilica of the town of Hormigueros. He has participated in the preparation of different sculptures of exotic animals for parks in South America (Argentina) where he keeps his sculpture studio. He did the front tympanum of the Mayaguez cathedral that has as its theme the fourth mystery (the presentation of baby Jesus in the temple). He did the monument to the fisherman in the municipality of Arecibo that consists of monumental sculptures in melted bronze, mosaics and plaques. He made the bi dimensional sculptures of the project "Deportivo Golf y Playa" in the sector Joyudas in Cabo Rojo. He exposed his work in the Villa Medici castle, patrons of the Italians renaissance Miguel Angel Buonarroti and Leonardo Da Vinci.
Edgar did the relief sculpture in melted bronze of Eugenio Maria de Hostos for the Hostos museum in the city of Mayaguez. He built the Olympic torch for the Caribbean and Centro American games of 2010 as well as the hand torch that now are part of the Olympic Museum collection in Switzerland.
He also designed and built the entrance for the town of Mayaguez that consist of over 60 bi dimensional and tridimensional sculptures and a plaza with a sculptural structure of over 130 feet high with the theme of the games. He made the monument size bust in bronze of the ex mayor of the town of San German, Jorge Alberto Ramos Comas and the bust of the well known citizen of San German Angel Casto Perez. He has done several busts for the town of San German and for the Capitol Building of Puerto Rico as well as several others around the island. At present time he is getting ready for several local and international projects including exhibitions in Dubai, Hollywood and others.