Gustavo Forselledo is Uruguayan by birth and a naturalized US Citizen. He lived in Montevideo, Uruguay until 2006, when he emigrated abroad. He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia, but before coming to the United States he resided in Honduras and Brazil.
After more than 25 years of working as a mental health professional and program coordinator for international organizations, he retired and embraced his old passion for painting, initiating a second career as an artist.
He has a series of urban landscape paintings, ranging from expressionist images of Washington D.C. and other U.S. cities, to images of European and Latin American cities, as well as Uruguayan urban icons.
Forselledo’s work is inspired by Latin American expressionism and universal constructivism in the style of Uruguayan masters Carlos Páez Vilaró and Joaquín Torres García. His preferred media is acrylic and ink on canvas or hardboard.
Since his arrival in the United States, he has had eleven individual exhibits and thirteen group exhibits in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, in addition to a solo exhibit in the Hall of Arts of the Uruguayan Embassy in Washington DC.
Some of his paintings are exhibited in personal collections
in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Germany, Honduras, Iceland, Panama, Thailand,
Uruguay, and the United States.