He was born in Manabí, Ecuador in 1978. He has been based in Guayaquil since the 1990s, where he began his studies in the arts, later obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad de las Artes in 2019. Drawing from personal memories of his homeland, habitat, and social experiences related to the issues of invasions and evictions in conflictive territories.

Lara reflects on the essential motivations of his production. Since then, Lara has been developing his works and projects, expanding the pictorial language from photographic images, which has led him to solve through the depigmentation and dissolution of photographic images due to eviction events in invasion territories. By obtaining these pictorial chemicals, he relates his practice to science and its dialogues with war references in human history. As a result, he presents in his works different types of pictorial bombardments, confronting physical destruction versus aesthetic dissolution, dialoguing with the pictorial tradition, especially with the languages of abstract painting mediated by photography.

He has had six solo exhibitions and multiple participations in collective exhibitions in Guayaquil, Quito, Cuenca, Machala, Loja, Ambato, Riobamba, Cañar, in the Republic of Ecuador and internationally, Bogota, Colombia Espacio Odeon ArtBo 2012 with Nominimo Espacio Cultural, Luciano Benetton Collection Italy 2017, Hybrid Art Fair VII edition Madrid Spain 2023 with Galería Fundación Pro Arte.

He has obtained since the beginning of his career the most important recognitions such as: Revelation Award at the October Salon 2007 Casa de la Cultura del Guayas. First prize October Salon 2008 Casa de la Cultura del Guayas. First prize June Salon in Machala 2011 Centro de Arte y Cultura Luz Victoria de Mora. First prize July Salon 2012 Museo Municipal Guayaquil. Third prize July Salon 2014 Museo Municipal Guayaquil. First prize in the second edition of the Batan Award organized by Galería NoMinimo Guayaquil 2015. First prize in the V Biennial of painting at the LANN Museum Guayaquil 2016. His works are found in the collections of the aforementioned institutions and in private collections inside and outside the country.