Freddy Contreras

Freddy Contreras was born in Colombia in 1952. He trained as an artist at Chelsea School of Art and The Royal College of Art and exhibited widely in Europe.

Contreras is one of the artists presented in the Offside! exhibition, organised in 1996 at Manchester City Art Galleries. This collaboration with iniva centred around football, explored issues of national pride and relationships between nations was accompanied by the publication Offside! Contemporary Artists and Football