Mario Lagos, Chilean painter (1959). He entered a degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad de Santiago (USACH) in 1979 and Advertising at the Escuela de Publicidad del Instituto del Pacífico in Santiago de Chile between 1980 and 1985. In 1985 he traveled to Spain, settled in Barcelona, and two years later he moved to Germany, where he made stays in Frankfurt and Berlin and had contact with teachers and students at the Hochschule der Kunste Von Berlin. There he devoted himself to experimentation with materials and conceptual art. In 1989 he traveled to Salzburg, Austria.