Carlos Ibarra is a contemporary American artist. He was born in Nogales, a small border town in southern Arizona. After completing an Associate’s degree in Graphic Design in 1994, Carlos decided to begin a career in fine art instead. After years of mainly working as a commissioned artist, primarily as a portrait painter in oils and acrylics, he attended the University of Arizona where in 2011 he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing.

Carlos’ current paintings focus on attempts to reconcile polarities in numerous subject matter. He is interested in pictorial representations that find union among seemingly opposite themes or subjects. That interest stems from his childhood experience of struggling to find a clear identity between his American citizenship and Mexican upbringing. After years of selling his easel work to collectors throughout America, Carlos is currently working on murals where he finds his themes and subject matter gain fuller lives at a grand scale. He continues, as well, to work as a successful portrait painter.