Gonzalo Fuenmayor studied Visual Arts and Art Education at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he was awarded a full scholarship from The Keith Haring Foundation. He also obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA in 2004. He has received various distinctions, including the EFG Bank Latin America Art Award, a nomination for the Florida Prize 2018 at the Orlando Museum of Art in FL, the 2015 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists, first place in the Bidimensional Salon 2013 at the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño in Bogotá, a Creation Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2013, and an Honorable Mention in the Third Edition of the Fernando Botero Award in 2007. Fuenmayor has exhibited extensively in Colombia, the United States, and Europe. In 2015, he held an individual exhibition titled "Tropical Mythologies" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has also participated in exhibitions such as "Caribbean Crossroads" at the Queens Museum in NY and "Contemporary Florida" at the Naples Museum, FL in 2011.