(b. Havana, Cuba, 1934).
Camacho is largely a self-taught artist. Traveling in Mexico during the 1950s in the company of mexican artist José Luis Cuevas, he studied the art of the Maya and other pre-Columbian cultures. In 1959, he left Cuba for Paris and there met Surrealist artist André Breton two years later. He participated in important Surrealist exhibitions in Europe during the 1960s, including the XIIéme Exposition Internationale du Surreálisme at the Galerie Loeil in 1965. During the 1970s Camacho undertook a number of ornithological expeditions to South America and also pursued research on the practice of alchemy. He currently lives in Paris.
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