| Javier Cárcamo | |
| Birth Date: | 25 January 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Occupation: | Novelist, Visual artist |
| Period: | 1999–present |
| Genre: | Literature, fiction, dark fantasy |
| Movement: | Gothic surrealism |
| Education: | Roberto Cabrera School of Art, Popular University Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Miguel de Cervantes European University |
Javier Cárcamo (born January 25, 1980) is a Guatemalan novelist and visual artist.[1] Alongside the muralist Jorge Corleto and other artists, the murals that illustrate the history of art, in the walls of the Popular University of Guatemala, declared as Cultural Heritage of Guatemala, by the Instituto de Antropología e Historia (Institute of Anthropology and History).[2]
Javier Cárcamo was born in Guatemala, Guatemala, on January 25, 1980. He was born in the suburbs of Guatemala City and studied in the Roberto Cabrera[3] night school of plastic arts, of the Popular University of Guatemala. Cárcamo worked alongside artists such as the muralist Jorge Corleto,[4] the painter Francisco Escobedo and the sculptor Byron Ramírez.[5]
Other of his collections were "Stigio '99", "The Tunnel of the Massacres", "Reliving the Scene of the Crime", "After Hours of Thought" and "Gods You Are", a collection of engravings created with blood.He was a teacher at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas "Rafael Rodríguez Padilla" (National School of Plastic Arts) (ENAP) and his collection Art is Not Explained was presentd to commemorate the centenary of the school.[6]
As a novelist, he has published "Words that you would never dedicate" (Palabras que Nunca Dedicarías), in the year 2003, "What I Wrote While You Were Hiding" (Lo que escribí mientras te escondías), (2008) and "The Apotheosis of the Stones" (2019), a psychological and gothic novel.[7]