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Graduated in Fine Arts from the "National School of Fine Arts" Institute, University of the Republic. 

Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America and Caribbean (2001); Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2004); 1st Prize International Banner Biennial (Tijuana, 2004); 2nd. Santa Cruz International Art Biennial Prize (2010); Justino Zavala Muniz Scholarship - Level III - from the Ministry of Education and Culture (2014) 

Since 1992 he has carried out exhibitions, installations and site-specific works at the national and international level, among which his participation in: VI and VII Havana Biennials (1997-2000) stands out; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (1997); Frac des Pays de la Loire (1997); Pancho Fierro Gallery, Lima (Peru, 1998); To eat or not to eat (Salamanca 2000); III International Banner Biennial (Tijuana, 2004); The Drawing Center of New York (2004); 29th. Pontevedra Biennial (2006); 1st. Encounter between two seas: San Pablo Biennial-Valencia (2007); Regional Art Meeting- ERA07 (Montevideo, 2007); DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden (Massachusetts, 2008); Syracuse University (New York, 2009); IV and VII Mercosur Biennials (Porto Alegre 2003-2009); 6a. Ventosul-Curitiba Biennial (Brazil, 2011); 18. Sydney Biennale (2012); 1a. and 2a. Montevideo Biennial (2012 and 2014); 18th International Exhibition of Drawing, Museum Rijeka (Croatia, 2013); 1a. Panama Art Biennial (2013); 5a. Moscow Biennale (2013); Trapananda Project (Chile, 2013); Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, MSK- Gent (Belgium, 2014); 4a. Poli/Grafica Triennial of San Juan, Latin America and the Caribbean (2015-2016); XXI Paiz Art Biennial, Guatemala; "Stories, drawing, fragility", New Millennium Gallery- Uruguayan art space, Beijing (2023).

Selection of publications: "Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing" with an essay by Emma Dexter published by Phaidon Press (2005); "Drawing People. The Human Figure in Contemporary Art." Author: Roger Malbert published by Thames & Hudson (2015). 

His work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including: Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (MSK Gent); The Deutsche Bank Collection; New York Public Library; The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection; La maison rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert; Tijuana Cultural Center; Sorigué Foundation; National Library of France François Mitterrand; Center National de l'Estampe et l'Art Imprimé of France; Center National des Arts Plastics de France; Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) des Pays de la Loire; Juan Manuel Blanes Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. 

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