Born on January 5, 1934 in Havana, Camacho arrived in Paris in 1959 and
in recent years lived between this city and Seville (Spain), where the
couple increasingly went “in search of the sun.”

His last exhibition took place at the Water Museum in Lisbon.

Camacho’s works are in important museums around the world, since his
work achieved a great international impact.

His work is influenced by artists such as Tamayo, Miró, Bacon, Tanguy or
Wifredo Lam, who were decisive in his youth.

In the 1950s he began to be interested in surrealism but it was not
until his installation in Paris at the end of that decade and his
meeting with André Breton that he officially joined the group.

Breton wrote the preface to an exhibition of his that took place in
Paris in 1961.

In addition to his pictorial work, Camacho was an important figure for
the dissemination of Reinaldo Arenas’s literature, by rescuing some of
his texts from Castro’s censorship.