(b. Sansonate, El Salvador, 1954).
Menéndez, one of the leading artists of El Salvador, lives in San Salvador. He had his first solo exhibition in 1976 at the Banco Atlacatl in San Salvador. His Surrealist paintings have themes of death and tragedy and depict the bodies of both rebels and peasants. Menéndez was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1996.
His group exhibitions include: 2002, Los Angeles Art Show, LA, California; 2000, Art Miami; 1999, "Homenaje al Lapiz", Museum Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City; Art Miami; Sotheby's Latin American Auction, New York; "Latin American Spectrum", Galeria Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador; 1998, Sotheby's Latin American Auction, New York; Gary Nader's Latin American Auction, Miami; "Anthology of Peace", Espacio Anfora Nova, Madrid, Spain.
His solo exhibitions include: 2000, Galeria Imagen, Panama City, Panama. In the USA, his work forms part of the permanent collections of the
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