Artist Detail

Hector Ahumada

Poet

About the artist:

Héctor Ahumada is a Chilean artist, a naturalized US citizen. Recipient of Salt Lake’s 1996 Mayor’s Literary Award in Literature, first place in Canto Hispano, Human Pursuits 1995, and an Honorary Mention from Arica University, Chile in a poetry contest for non academic poets. In Chile he studied at the Viña del Mar Fine Arts School, the State Technical University, and in the United States he studied at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. He works at the University of Utah Hospital in Diagnostic Radiology as Quality Control Coordinator, and teaches Spanish at the University Long Life Learning Program. Ahumada’s poems have been published in Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, Hispanic Cantos: A Collection of Utah Latino Poetry, The Crossroad Anthology, and Weber State University, and City Art literary journals, Bluff Fandango Anthology 1998-1999, Deseret News, Venceremos, Echo Canyon, and Mission San Francisco newspapers.