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César Rengifo was born on May 14, 1915, in Caracas, Venezuela. The son of Angel Maria Rengifo Goita and Felicia Cadenas. He married Angela Carrillo. They were the parents of two daughters, Diana and Flérida. Between 1930 and 1935 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas. During 1936, he traveled to Chile on a scholarship from the Ministry of Education to specialize in pedagogy of the plastic arts. A year later he moved to Mexico, where he studied the techniques of muralism at the Academia de San Carlos. Influenced by the work of Diego Rivera, he adopted a style very different from that of the Caracas School.
In 1939, back in Venezuela, he took a graphic arts course at the reformed School of Plastic Arts and Applied Arts in Caracas. In that same year, she held her first individual exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. He was a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela. He is being one of the defenders of the postulates of Marxist political-ideological realism. He argued that abstractionism was a decaying stream of Western culture. He is the founder of El Taller de Puente Republican, together with Gabriel Bracho and Armando Lira.
In 1953 he won the Andrés Pérez Mujica Prize, from the Valencia Athenaeum, and in 1954, he won the National Painting Prize, the Antonio Esteban Frías and the Arturo Micheline, also in the same year, and later, the National Theater Prize (1980). Between 1958 and 1960, he was director of Cultural Extension at the University of the Andes, in Mérida. During his management, he founded the School of Plastic Arts of Mérida (1959). Among his works, two important murals stand out: The myth of Amalivaca (1955) and Creators of the Nationality (1973).
As a playwright he published about twenty works, among which stand out, Maria Rosario Nava: Manuelote (1950), The corner of fear: La sonata del alba (1974). César Rengifo died on November 2, 1980, at the age of 65, in Caracas, Venezuela.
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