Santiago otzin pata

Santiago Otzín Patá was born in 1965 in San Juan Comalapa, Dept. Chimaltenango, Guatemala, Central America.  He is married, has three sons, works and lives in Comalapa.

He is autodidact but has taken part in various workshops for landscape painting with artists as Jorge Masariegos and Carlos De Leon Campos.

He has taken part in more than 45 exhibitions with other painters in different institutions and galleries in Guatemala: El Attico, el Forum, Patronato de Bellas Artes, Museo Ixchel, Galería de Arte Atmósfera, Instituto Gutemalteco de Turismo, Casa de la Cultura Antigua Guatemala, Asociación de Eduacion y Cultura Alejandro Von Humboldt, Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala, Museo Popol Vuh y Banco de Guatemala, en la Bienal de Arte Paiz, Certamen Nacional de Pintura Arturo Martínez, Tercer Certamen de Pintura Shell and Expo-subasta (exposition auction) for painters from Comalapa in the Nacional Palace in Guatemala.

In 1995 Santiago Otzín Patá won the first prize in Competetion of aficionados (fans) of indigenous people and civil participation, Rigoberta Menchu Foundation.
1996 he got the second prize: The Coca Cola bottle, an olympic salute to craft.

You can visit the exhibition for free every wednesday between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. - or after any appointment we arranged.