Luis Caballero (Bogotá, 1943 – 1995) devoted his work to the human body, and in particular to the male nude. He worked in oil on canvas and charcoal on paper, looking to both 16th-century Italian Mannerism and French Romanticism.

The son of writer Eduardo Caballero Calderón, he studied at the Universidad de los Andes and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he settled in 1968. That year he won first prize at the I Coltejer Art Biennial in Medellín.

In the 1980s his line grew looser and more dramatic, with closer attention to tone and brushwork. He returned to Bogotá in 1995, the year he died. His work is presented at Galería Duque Arango.