Edwin Sulca Lagos was born on August 5th, 1958, in the neighborhood of Santa Ana in the city of Ayacucho, Perú. He is a member of the third generation of his family of Peruvian textile artists, which through the years has come to master the "punto arwi" – a pre-Inca weaving technique. He inherited the wisdom and teaching of his grandfather Ambrosio Sulca (awarded the national distinction of Great Master in 1994), and his father Victor Sulca, a well-known master and teacher of his great skill. Edwin graduated from the Chemical Engineering Department in the National University of San Cristobal of Huamanga. He has been exhibiting his work since 1979, and has traveled and taught his techniques and his poetry in several Peruvian cities, and abroad: in the United States, Switzerland, Spain, and Ecuador. In 2000, the Canadian film company Avanti Pictures produced a documentary about his life and work titled "The Voices of Ayacucho, Peru."

"Edwin Sulca Lagos, master of the textile arts, embodies his dreams and hopes and those of his beloved town of Ayacucho in tapestries which relay the fortitude, pain, and dreams of his city. His tapestries elevate words to figures and scenery using Andean symbolism and life stories, and they embody these poems into masterpieces which transcend the Andean soul to become a universal message . . ." Fermin Rivera Pineda (Anthropologist)
Translated from Spanish