I was born in Guatemala City on March 13, 1980, Tojil on the Tzolkin Mayan calendar.
From the time I was a child I developed my artistic talent, thanks to my parents, grandparents, uncle and aunts and my extended family in Guatemala I grew up surrounded by art, music, colors, trees and poetry.
 I remember my grandfather playing the organ on the first floor of the house and my father painting and making music with my mother and friends.
 As a child I wanted to be an inventor and understood electronics, destroying my old toys to create new ones. I started experimenting with sound waves and at age 15 I made a distortion for my friend Juan Carlos’ guitar by altering an old radio recorder. I learned to play the drums and after spending hours, days, months, and years playing this instrument I became a professional musician. Since then, I have played in hundreds of international concerts with different bands and at festivals with international and local artists.
 I learned to write music, work in the studio, and play other instruments like guitar, keyboard and other percussion also learning the art of singing.

While living in France for almost 4 years I created the music project El Cadejo http://www.myspace.com/elcadejoenvivo composing my own music and lyrics to several songs. We recorded an album and had the opportunity to play with French musicians at festivals and interact with the public in the south and the north of France. Meanwhile in my spare time I learned landscape architecture, the art of making
cheese and masonry as well as the tradition of sheep herding.

After returning to Guatemala I was presented with an opportunity to study the Maya tradition with the “abuelos” or elders, specifically focusing on the Tzolkin Maya Calendar on the way to “ Saq Be” or The Spiritual Path. I have followed this path ever since, collaborating in dozens of Mayan fire and spiritual ceremonies. In
1996 following this Maya tradition, I took a trip to Italy and Spain representing Guatemala with the group Legion Juventus in a world festival of folklore and music, representing traditional Paabanc Mayan dances like the Dance of the Flowers. I was grateful to interact with hundreds of artists from all over the world even interviewing with Italian RAI television channel. I remember the incredible feeling of being inside a medieval castle, representing my music from Guatemala, the marimba.
 This experience changed my life completely.


Shortly thereafter, I began working within the banking system – a place that allowed me to make thousands of contacts, really springing into action my early career as a painter. I was so successful, the bank published an article about me in its 25th anniversary issue, below.

Brief Summary about Byron:

I studied at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. Advertising, International Relations, television and film production. I speak three languages English, French and Spanish and also studied German in school.
 Most of my clients have been people who believed in me and what I\\\'m doing, private clients or art collectors who invest and enjoy my work and surreal dimensional world that accompany each of my pieces.
I am currently living in Houston, Texas with my wife, Christine, and working on a series of paintings that speak about the energies between time and space, and the people such as shamans, sorcerers, aborigines and other social figures that have represented this energy in history. My work is mostly surrealist in nature, but becomes figurative once I identify with my subject – always pulling him or her out of the paintings just enough to feel the energy of the painting itself.