Visual artist, born in Mexico in 1972, he graduated in Industrial Engineering and parallel studies in Philosophy, Drawing and Painting. In 2000, he received a scholarship from the National Arts and Culture Fund and went to Barcelona, Spain to further his studies in Painting and Visual Arts. In 2000 and 2002 the European Community awarded him the Socrates-Erasmus scholarship for residential studies at Nottingham University, England, going on to Germany where he took up studies in New Media at the Arts University in Berlin in Katherina Sieverding and Lothar Baumgarten's class. In 2002, he won First Place in the 23rd Sant Lluc Award in drawing, bestowed by the Cataluña Generalitat. In 2009, he took up artistic residency in La Curtiduria – Visual Arts Center - in Oaxaca City. In 2010 he won Second Place at the II Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial and represented Mexico at the Venice Biennial of Bogota, Colombia. Since 2011 he has been recognized as Member of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA) granted by the Mexican Government. He has been nominated as best Latin American visual artist in the UK - 2015 and the Prix Thun for Art and Ethics in Switzerland - 2017. In 2018 he was commissioned to produce a work at the XIII Biennial FEMSA in the city of Zacatecas. He has exhibited both individually and collectively in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, England, and Germany, at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), the National Museum of San Carlos, in Mexico City, Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA) in Buenos Aires Argentina, Barcelona Contemporary Culture Center (CCCB) at Barcelona, Spain, Pedro Coronel Museum and Francisco Goitia Museum both in Zacatecas, the Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Museum of the city in Mérida and the Art Museum of Querétaro, Mexico. He currently lives and works in Mexico City.
Selected Exhibitions
2020
- Material Art Fair , Vol.7 – curated by Antonella Rava, Lagos, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
- Detritus Landscapes, Gallery Weekend 2019, Escuela de la Paz – Recinto Escandón, Ciudad de México, México
- Kaviar – curated by Antonella Rava, Gallery Weekend 2019, Lagos, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
- The State of Things, XIII Bienal FEMSA - We were never contemporaries – curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Commissioned Project, Former Temple of San Agustin, Zacatecas, Mexico
- Metonymies, Embassy of Mexico, Berlin, Germany
- Metonymies, Städtische Galerie Bad Reichenhall, Germany
- The State of Things, Zona Maco Sur, Solo Project, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, Ethra Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
- Pictorial Ontologies, The Retinal Umbilical Cord: curated by Willy Kautz, ESPAC Contemporary Art Space, Mexico City, Mexico
- Self-reconstruction : Detritus , curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas, MUCA University Museum of Science and Arts , Mexico City, Mexico
2017
- Metonymies, Cervantes Institute, Hamburg, Germany
- Metonymies, Museum of Modern Art, Toluca, Mexico
- E9 7QL / 1H, curated by Lassla Esquivel (Periferia Projects) and Jade Barget (Enterprise Proyects) , Enterprise House, Hackney, London, UK
- Shaped in Mexico 3, Ariane Paffrath Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Shaped in Mexico 3 , Spazio espositivo ABOUT, Venice, Italy
- Genesis : in principio. A contemporary look. Guadeloupe Viceroy Museum, Zacatecas, Mexico
2016
- Metonymies, Cervantes Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
- Convergent Plans, curated by Ana Cristina Ortego, Ethra Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
- Aesthetics, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila, Casa República Gallery, Saltillo, Coahuila, México
2015
- Metonymies, Museum of Abstract Art Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas, Mexico
- M02: Work in process, The National Museum of San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
- Shaped in Mexico 2, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila, Bargehouse Gallery Oxo Tower, South Bank, London, UK
- Gerzso Gerzso Gerzso, curated by James Oles, Exhibition Homage to Günther Gerzso, Tlatelolco Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico
- The Latin UK Awards, Rich Mix Gallery, London, UK
2014
- Shaped in Mexico, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila, Bargehouse Gallery Oxo Tower, South Bank, London, UK
- Oaxaca Contemporáneo +-35, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila, SEC Gallery, Saltillo,, Mexico
2013
- H77: A stratigraphy to reformulate space / time, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila, Havre 77, Mexico City, Mexico
- Imaginary Archetypes, curated by Martina Santillán, Mexican Design Open, Downtown, Mexico City, Mexico
- Abstraction in Zacatecas, Museum of Art, Querétaro, Mexico
- Matria: Summer Solstice of Water, curated by Pablo J. Rico, Art Therapy Garden, Oaxaca, Mexico
2012
- Metonymies, The National Museum of San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
- Time of suspicion: An exercise on media communication, knowledge and information systems. Curated by Victor Palacios, Museum of Modern Art. Mexico City, Mexico
- Abstract Master of Zacatecan Plastic. Museum of the City. Mérida, Mexico
2011
- Horizontal Painting, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila Alvaro Blancarte Hall, Autonomous University of Baja California., Tijuana, Mexico
- Zona MACO 2011, Massimo Audiello Oaxaca Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
- Abstracts, Municipal Gallery Rosario Sánchez de Lozada, Querétaro, Mexico
2010
- Horizontal Painting, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila, MUPO Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Picollo Apperto, curated by Franklin Aguirre, Venice Biennial of Bogota, Cero Gallery, Bogota Colombia
- rEvoluciona, curated by olgaMargarita Dávila Entijuanarte Festival 2010, Public Interventions, Tijuana, Mexico
- II Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial, St. Augustine Old Church, Zacatecas, Mexico
2009
- Pulsations, Francisco Goitia Museum, Zacatecas, Mexico
2004
- Transpositions, curated by Francisca Rivero-Lake, Espacio Tres Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
-Museum Variations, curated by Rodrigo Alonso, MALBA - Latin American Art Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- MAGMA: Migration and Art, Viera and Clavijo Cultural Center, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
2002
- Mexican Avant-Garde, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
- BAC III, Barcelona Contemporary Culture Center (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
- 23rd Sant Lluc Award in drawing exhibition, Sant Lluc Artist Circle, Barcelona, Spain
2001
- Mental Cartographies, Sant Lluc Artistic Circle, Barcelona, Spain
- Public Privacy, Art Fair, New Art 2001, Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.
- Cohabit, La Capella Cultural Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
- Abstract : in the presence of here and of it all, Ollin Yoliztli Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico
2000
- Tales of the City, Now Festival 2000, Nottingham, England
- The Dessert Oasis, Culture Institute, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain
1998
- Memory Corners, "Los Zacatecanos" Art Hall, Zacatecas, Mexico
- Nocturnes, ITESM, Mexico City,Mexico
- 25 Years 25 Artists, ITESM, Mexico City, Mexico
- An Encounter with Culture, ITESM, Mexico City, Mexico
1996
- Liberate, Iberoamerican University, Mexico City, Mexico
1995
- Urban Impressions, Guadeloupe Viceroy Museum, Zacatecas, Mexico
- Urban Impressions, ITESM, Mexico City, Mexico
- Singular Abstractions, ITESM. Mexico City, Mexico
- Towards Avant-Garde, 14th IAA/UNESCO Assembly General, Tlaxcala, Mexico