Olmedo Quimbita was born in Latacunga, on the 1st of June of 1963, son of Rafael Quimbita, wealthy businessman and farmer, and son of Zoila Panchi, who helped her husband in his businesses. He was the youngest of five siblings. He studied elementary school in Numa Pompilio Llona School where he had an outstanding participation in track and field. In 1977 he already painted and as his father was friend of Manuel Cangui.

In 1981, his family set in Quito, near Montufar high school. This change turned out to be beneficial for the beginning training of the young artist. Simultaneously, he took his first classes of high school at the Seis de Diciembre state school and stopped not only by the museum of Colonial Art of the Municipality but also at the Modern Art Museum of the Culture House.

As of 1986 he thought convenient to leave the country. He moved to Caracas, where he received a warm welcome. At that time, he was only accompanied by four paintings that he had brought from Quito as sample of his ability.

A year later, he commenced drawing horses and riders. He exhibited his work at racetracks in Caracas and Valencia. In 1989 his paintings were displayed at the art gallery of INCE and at the Caracas Munipal Museum. He was known already by prestigious Venezuelan painters, Jesus Soto, one of them.

In 1992 he showed his photographies, catalogues, and newspapers cuttings to Bolivar Torres, staff at the Cultural Division of the Chancellery in Quito, who programmed a traveling exhibit through the South of South America.

It was in 1997 when he asked his friend Manuel Romero, ambassador of Ecuador in Egypt, to program an exhibition in Tel Aviv and another in El Cairo. The Egyptian capital amazed him because of its exoticism. The journey continued to Jerusalem, from there back to El Cairo and the Cervantes Institute was the next showroom.

That same year he moved to Madrid and rented an apartment near the Fine Arts Circle. His visits to the museums, libraries and theaters brought with them numerous friendships, even a new collective exhibition at the Convention Stand. Once again in Egypt, in 1998 he presented at the palace of the Opera House gallery.

By 2000 he returned to Bogota and Medellin. In the former city he exhibited his work at the Santillana Foundation, in the last the showrooms were at the Confama and Sheraton hotel. Next year he visited Paraguay again, where he presented his paintings at the Fine Arts National Museum in Asuncion. Uruguay followed and his masterpieces were shown at the Aladi. That same year he was at the Cervantes Institute in London. Russia was the next stop: the Modern Art Moscovite Museum, in Moscow, where his work was qualified as “a trip of life between reality and dreams”.

Early 2002 he was back in Guayaquil. Since then he continues in his country, with a workshop located in a community in front of the sea, in Olón. Olmedo Quimbita, medium height, small eyes, straight black hair, extroverted and vital, is one of the greatest Ecuadorian artists.