Ismael Avila was born in 1944 in an era of social and political tensions in the archipelago of Puerto Rico. His father, Don Antonio Avila, who served as Mayor of Vieques, Puerto Rico (1943-1948), like so many other Puerto Ricans at the time, migrated with his family to New York in 1950.
Ismael Avila's work includes landscapes, portraits and surrealism, many reflecting the influence of Puerto Rican painters such as Ramon Frade and Miguel Pou. Others influences include surreal painters such as De Chirico and Salvador Dalí. The most notable of Ismael's paintings was a portrait of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, made the same day of his murder.
Ismael died May 23, 2020.
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