Luis Wells

Luis Wells was born in Buenos Aires in 1939, where twenty years later he founded the Informalist Movement of Argentina. In 1965, he won the Di Tella prize with one of his "ceilings", and with a scholarship from the British Council he traveled to London where he stayed for one year in the sculpture department of the Royal College of Art. In 1966 he exhibited for the first time individually at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, and in 1967 he moved to New York where he lived for nine years. In 1969 he was a founding member of the Latin American Imaginary Museum of New York. A year later, he became interested in industrial design and won two awards for excellence. The model of one of his "ceilings" was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the original was donated to the National Museum in Buenos Aires.