About the artist:

Cesar Santander is a "Photorealist" painter. He uses photographs as sources for his paintings and the paintings themselves look like photographs. Cesar received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in New York. He was a full-time teacher for ten years in New York City and Miami, Florida. He has been painting full-time since 1980. Since 1978, he has been using the airbrush in his work. The still-life is his area of interest. Cesar first painted fruit, utensils and cups. Later he painted antique tin boxes and this led to painting tin toys. He has been painting and exploring toy subject matter since 1982. His paintings are considered among the finest that have ever been done in the genre. Education 1975-77 Florida International University, Florida 1972 Pratt Institute, New York, M.F.A. 1969 New York University, New York 1969 Pratt Institute, New York, B.F.A. Exhibitions 2001 Holiday Group Show, , Gallery Henoch New York, NY 2000 Group Show, BGH Boritzer Gallery Los Angeles, CA 2000 Gallery Group Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1999 Gallery Group Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1999 One Person Show: Toy Paintings, Modernism Gallery San Francisco, CA 1998 One Person Show: Paintings & Cut Outs, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1998 Group Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1997 National Horse Show Invitational, Robert Kidd Gallery Birmingham, MI 1996 One Person Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1996 One Person Show: Movie Goddesses, Bruce Lewin Gallery New York, NY 1994 Fall Group Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1993 5th Annual National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of Art Youngstown, OH 1993 Summer Group Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1991 One Person Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY 1988 One Person Show: New Paintings, Nancy Poole's Studio Toronto, Ontario 1987 Some Aspects of Realism, McIntosh Gallery O.W.O, London, Ontario 1986 The Merry-Go-Round in Art, MSU Museum East Lansing, MI 1986 One Person Show: Carousel Paintings, Robert Kidd Gallery Birmingham, MI 1985 One Person Show: Paintings 1980-84, Art Gallery of St. Thomas-Elgin St. Thomas, Ontario 1983 One Person Show: Paintings of Toys, Nancy Poole's Studio Toronto, Ontario