The List
Dulce Pinzón
Mexico
Dulce Pinzón was born in Mexico City in 1974. She studied Mass Media Communications at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla Mexico and Photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania. In 1995 she moved to New York where she studied at The International Center of Photography.
Her work has been published and collected internationally. In 2001 her photos were used for the cover of a publication of Howard Zinn’s book “A People’s History of the United States”. In 2002 Dulce won the prestigious Jovenes Creadores/FONCA grant in Mexico for her work. In 2006 she won an Honorific Mention in the Santa Fe project competition and she won the 12th edition of the Mexican Biennial of El Centro de La Imagen. Dulce was a 2006 fellow in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2007 for the Bronx Museum program Artist in the Market Place and a Ford Foundation grantee in 2008.
Moli
Spain
Moli was born in Almeria (Andalucia, Spain) in 1980. Her artistic training began during her childhood, painting at workshops with renowned artists. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2005. She also attended to doctoral courses on Media Art. She moved to Mexico City in 2005, living there until 2011. During this time she traveled around the country participating in workshops and visual arts projects that gave her a great experience and helped shaping her career.
She has also worked as a plastic artist for important brands such as Diesel, Absolut, Adidas and She participated in projects like "Bellamatic", "The most beautiful" (Madrid); “only my Brain” Diesel, “Absolut World”, “Crystal Box” Absolut, “Street Painting”. She intervened on theater projects awarded grants by the FONCA (Mexico), creating set designs inside buses. Two of her last and major works have been a mural at the Spanish Embassy in Mexico City and a sculpture of a blender (300x 200x 200 cm) "Glup Glup" exposed at the Contemporary Art Fair of Mexico, MACO 2011.
Rodrigo Maawad
Mexico
México
Rodrigo Maawad Ahumada was born in Pachuca, Hidalgo in 1982. Sculpture and photographer ,e work in two projects in 2007 Oxide, Fundación Cultural Arturo Herrera Cabañas, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México and in 2005 Spectra, Centro Cultural Mariano Jiménez, San Luis Potosí, SLP. He has been part in 15 colective exhibition in México other countries higlighting in Young Portfolio Acquisitions, Kiyosato Museun of Photographic Arts, Japón in 2013.
Awards like Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japón. Emisiones 2007,2009 and 2012. First place into the competition Nuestra Visión de la Revolución in 2011.
César Alvizo
México
César Alvizo
Mexico
Cesar Alvizo , Mexican artist working around disused abandoned objects and uses watercolor and camera to become a collector of parts affected by time, weather , oblivion . Through tours on foot or by bike , Cesar roams the outskirts of the city in search of those objects that captivates for its aesthetic and perhaps belong more to the world of scrap or waste might , but they possess an essence that can easily linked to the art world . The photographic record at different times and cleaning makes the artist to remove environments and landscapes leaves us with a sculptural piece translated on paper. Each painting reveals the painstaking work at the level of representation as well as a new possibility of permanenencia and effective for the found object .
Marité Márquez
Mexico
Graduate and graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda" ENPEG in 2004, with the line of specialty in Multimedia, National Center CONACULTA / INBA Arts. He has supplemented his training by attending workshops illustration, plastic production, photography, design theory and techniques of printmaking in Mexico City, Colima and Xalapa.
Plastic artist and illustrator. In the graphic production predominates, ranging from traditional techniques such as gravure printing, to digital and experimental graphic, always distinguished by the thoroughness of their work. In 2013 he was a fellow of the Young Creators National Programme, Fonca. He has also taught at the plastic to college, youth and children level disciplines, institutions such as the Mexican Institute of Youth, Gestalt Design University, College of Design Bachilleres Gestalt, the Professional School of Drawing, among others. He currently teaches at the University of Design Gestalt in Xalapa, Veracruz. Parallel done illustration work for various offices and publishers as well as training programs for farmers, indigenous and rural organizations.
Alberto Lescay
Cuba
Alberto Lescay Merencio graduated in Painting (1968) at “José Joaquín Tejada” Fine Arts Workshop School; Sculpture (1973) at "Cubanacán” National Art School and he became an Art Professor (1979) at "Repin" Academy of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting and Graphic, in San Petersburg, Russia. Such studies gave him the tools to carry out 35 solo shows and participate in several collective exhibits, in Cuba and overseas.
Lescay was the founder and creator of the Caguayo Foundation for Monumental and Applied Arts. This institution represents over 300 Cuban fine artists and provides services to embassies and other entities. Its workshops have contributed to develop the works of creators from over 15 countries, with outstanding presence in the Caribbean and other neighboring nations.
Creating is the main goal of Alberto Lescay Merencio, whose pictorial or sculptural works stand as true symbols of Cuban identity, culture and art for all times. Read more at: http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/en/noticia/alberto-lescay-artist-born-santiago-who-juggles-many-hats
Alexandra Cor
Romania
Alexandra Cor is a visual artist and a graphic designer. Her work is a hybrid between fine arts and graphic design. It’s characterized by a
modern and experimental approach, a mixture between photography, geometrical shapes, color and typography.
Fabiola Menchelli
Mexico
Fabiola Menchelli work investigates the relationship of photography to architecture, painting, drawing, sculpture and other media. Using light as raw material, the work seeks to explore essential ideas about the photograph dare language of abstraction . The process of creating questions the materiality of the image to explore photography as a poetic space .
Fabiola Menchelli is a Mexican artist who currently lives and works in Mexico City . He studied the Master of Visual Arts and Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in Digital Visual Arts at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia . He has participated various exhibitions in Mexico , USA, Canada, England , Sweden, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
Fernando Etulain
Mexico
Fernando Etulain graduated from the Active School of Photography, addresses the meeting in the city of Arles to continue their training accompanying Lucien Clergue, founder of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie and the Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles, participation of workshops specific to photography and later revealing and printing his work in the workshops of the same issues.
Parallel and during his residence in France for the next fifteen years, ventures in the areas of editorial and commercial photography, bringing you to the edges of the art direction, production and production for brands and advertising agencies.
However, his interest in a photograph more approached to a plastic representation, will lead to the development of several much more conceptualized series, they found exposure INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHIE Hyeres, in the XII BIENNIAL OF THE CENTER OF THE IMAGE , GALLERY PUBLIC PLACES, program 1 MONTH 1 ARTIST, and recently ALMANAC PHOTO GALLERY.
His work is published in the national and international press and repertoire PEEPING TOM DIGEST MEXICAN ART SCENE 2 has done commissions for LIBERATION and LE MONDE, several of their portfolios thematic series diaries found in the pages of ANIMAL magazines and 192 in the chapters devoted to art.
Ilán Rabchinskey
Mexico
Adam Green
USA
Aldo Chaparro
Mexico
Aldo Chaparro (n. 1965) is a native of Peru contemporary artist whose work focuses mainly around the sculpture, design and architecture, known especially for his sculptures made from steel inoxidable. Currently lives and works between Mexico city, New York and Lima. Addition to his work as an artist, Aldo Chaparro has also been editor and art director.
As director of Grupo Editorial Celeste produced more than 40 publications on contemporary art and fashion from 2000 to 2012, including Celeste and Baby baby baby, two of the most influential publications of contemporary art and culture.
His work has been collected by personalities as Domenico de Sole (Ex-CEO of GUCCI and CEO Tom Ford), Simon de Pury, Helga de Alvear and Pierre Huber and has been exhibited in historical sites such as the Palazzo Pamphilj, the Pantheon , the Church of Santa Clara and the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, plus galleries and museums worldwide and fairs like Art Basel Miami, ARCO, Art Dubai and Zona MACO.
Cake Hara
Japan
Cake Hara, obviously not his real name, was our multi-media representative. He studied fine arts in Mexico because he did not like the senpai-kohai (senior-junior for lack of a better translation) system of Japan. In the Fake Moon video with the scene of the rotting orange, he wanted to show what happened when “real” things pretend to be fake, in the same way that fake designer goods are designed to resemble the real things. For example, that orange was perfectly fine. The mould was green and white paint that washed off to show the true colour underneath.
The rotting banana was also painted very realistically. And the moon? It was a piece of daikon radish. If pretending to be fake, would they still have the same value? Would they be devalued?
The second photo shows a scene from a band where the musicians played instruments in the same rhythms as heartbeats. He used his dog’s heartbeat as well as his own heartbeat after strenuous exercise, after waking up, and while doing desk work.
Horacio Quiroz
Mexico
From a very early age I showed a strong interest in painting and drawing, activities to which I totally and utterly surrendered myself throughout my childhood and adolescence.
I graduated in Graphic Design from Universidad Iberoamericana, following this I worked for nearly seven years as Creative Art Director various renowned international advertising agencies, such as Publicis México and Zeta Advertising. During this time I took care of accounts like Coca-Cola, VW, BMW, Maytag, Nido, Garnier and many others. As a publicist I learned to work under pressure on several projects at once, I gained a thorough understanding of how the industry works through dealing with customers, planners, brand managers, designers, producers, models etc.
Despite working full time as a publicist, my artistic education never stopped as I was always learning from the work of other art directors and great photographers, who I was fortunate to work with both here in Mexico and abroad.
Stelios Mousarris
Cyprus
Stelios Mousarris is a Cypriot based designer with a Bachelor Degree in Modelmaking, having worked for Fosters and Partners as a modelmaker and as an assistant designer in 2014 he stepped into the design world by starting his own company Mousarris, with the aim to produce high quality pieces of furniture and other products.
Marcia García
Mexico
She studied Visual Arts in UNARTE, Puebla . It is a very versatile artist, experience various issues as well as techniques that lead them to explore their spirituality. Each work speaks for itself . Little moments that lead us different ways in our lives.
Marcia Garcia del Callejo is an artist who is in constant motion not looking to stay in something. Their experiences and their environment it detonates his art simply it is taking shape at that time what his aesthetic need asks. Is an artist who tries to be constantly changing concepts and materials. The last series It is a pictorial reinterpretation of the cotidianidad taken to STAIN ART.
Part of his speech is water, and fluid properties such as reflection, trying d and be consistent with the materials that go hand in hand with speech. ART STAIN as a technique is a way to see your around, their environment, their context.
Ryan Brown
USA
Over the last few years Brown has been creating large scale paintings based on the art auction catalog page as both subject matter and compositional template. Meticulously crafted using equal parts deliberation and chance these works challenge our concepts of progress and perfection. The intentionally ragged, collapsed, and sagging monochromic squares are accompanied with descriptive captions which, rather than inform the reader of the accurate date and provenance, remain nonsensical and misleading.
Ryan Brown was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1977. He studied Fine Arts at SVA (School of Visual Arts) in New York. After graduating with honors in 2006 he was invited to participate in the European Exchange Academy in Beelitz, Germany. Ryan Brown has participated in multiple solo and group exhibitions.
Konstantin Grebnev
Moscow
“Abstract is a series of studies and experiments that combine monochrome painting and photography. Drawing and making various manipulations with ink on glass, I prefer to put myself in the position of observer of the process. I minimize my influence on the formation of the image and allows it to create the picture by itself. I move the glass, ink spreads. I'm trying to find pure abstract images and composition which are synchronized with my personal view. I observe the process of appearance and disappearance of different abstract forms. So I use my camera to catch the moment of the reality during this process and then capture it because in the next moment the picture is changing.
As for me all this process is the practice of concentration, attention and perception in the moment of reality in the endlessly changing flow of time. That is also what I'm trying to do in my common life.”
Jon Cazenave
Spain
From a deepening of documentary photography as a source via first to capture and record the contemporary world, he decided to complete his studies with Pep Bonet (Noor Images) in 2007 and Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum Photos) in 2008 after being selected to participate in the first Magnum Workshop in Oslo. Cazenave lives and works between Barcelona and San Sebastián.
Joku The Joku work conceived the fronton (court ball game) as a sacred space where man plays a game ritual inhabiting the space. The pediment is understood as a triedro loaded with symbolism a "dump bucket" where lines and planes create the rules and man "dance" to the rhythm imposed a sphere. In this paper photography as such it goes into the background becoming mere tool, and is the image in its most abstract sense which acquires real importance as a symbol.
Joku Zubieta consists of 8 photographs taken while the author playing ball in the pediment. The game is done with the left hand while his right hand the same with the camera documented. The resulting piece is intended to reflect the tempo and, in turn, establish a harmonious relationship between point, line, plane and color. We can see how the black sphere sometimes seems a point and sometimes the volume and approach make it become a sphere.
Alejandro Arango
Mexico
Alejandro Arango was born in 1950 in Mexico City , his work is in major museums and collections in Mexico and in other countries.
In Mexico his work is in Museo Rufino Tamayo , Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey , Amparo Museum Puebla, Museo De Monterrey, cultural heritage U.N.A.M. , La Celeccio Jumex , Fundacion Televisa , Fundacion Bancomer, Cemex Foundation . in other countries like United States Metropolitan Museum of Art ( Galeria XXI Century ) new yorck.N.Y . , Archer M.Huntington Art Galerie, Texas Austin , Tex . Robert , Gubiner Fondation.Long Beach, California and the Museum Jospi Broz Tito Belgrade among some .
He has made stage designs and costumes, Desire Caught by the Tail , written by Pablo Picasso , Museo Rufino Tamayo , as well as monumental scenery and costumes for the opera, Noah's Ark , Cento historico mexico city .
Ilán Rabchinskey was born in 1980 in Mexico City. He has a BA in Media and Audiovisual Studies by the Universidad Iberoamericana and has lived in England, Spain and Israel.
His work often explores the tension between the forces of nature and the development of human civilization, the physical constitution of matter, and humanity’s relationship with itself and other forms of biological and material existence on the planet.
He has exhibited in Mexico, France, England, United States and Spain, as well as art fairs like Zona MACO, Paris Photo LA, HFAF and Gallery Weekend MX.
In 2006 he was recipient ofthe Cultural Projects and Co-investments Development Program from the FONCA National Endowment for the Arts and is currently under the Young Creators Grant, awarded by the same institution.
Helmut Newton
Germany
Dubbed the “King of Kink”, influential fashion photographer Helmut Newton made his name shooting models in striking, provocative black-and-white photographs for Vogue. “If a photographer says he is not a voyeur, he is an idiot,” he once said. Newton is considered to have imbued fashion photography with narrative depth, giving context to his subjects by creating stylized, dreamlike scenes. Vogue’s U.S. editor-in-chief Anna Wintour once described his work as “synonymous with Vogue at its most glamorous and mythic.”
Newton was married to fellow photographer Alice Springs, and he led a glamorous life, associating with the likes of Billy Wilder, Dennis Hopper, and Robert Evans. He was particularly influential to the careers of the photographers Mark Arbeit, Just Loomis, and George Holz, who served as his assistants.
German-Australian, 1920–2004, Berlin, Germany
Curro Gómez
Spain
Madrid, 1970. Curro Gómez. Plastic artist and illustrator. Self-taught artistic training. He studied Advertising and Communication, working as Art Director in various companies and agencies in the sector.
In 1997 he started as a professional plastic creator, combining this aspect with the author graphic design and illustration. In 2003 he moved his residence to Mexico DF where he has lived and worked for almost ten years. In 2013 he returned to Madrid.
As an artist he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Spain, Mexico and the United States.
Flor Garduño
Mexico
Mexico City, 1957. Flor Garduño. One of the most important contemporary photographers of the world, astonishes, emotions and dreams. Thanks to the skill and mastery of the craft, captivates the audience and immerse into a deep introspection to implausible togethers.
The work that has developed retaking Flower mythological elements of Mexican, Latin and Greek culture; 32 pieces made between 1999 and 2010. This section develops a series of feminine archetypes that belong to different cultures.
Works between 1998 and 2009. An issue where the soul of Flor plays and sports; He says "when I think of Silent Natures, I must confess that these photographs did for me, to keep my playfulness to over the years"
Circe Peralta
Mexico
Circe Peralta was born in Mexico City in 1972, however, from 4 years settled in the Estado de México mainly in Toluca and Malinalco. In both places is recognized his career as an artist and community work and three times has been a fellow by the FOCAEM for research projects and pictorial creation.
Since 2008 she has taught workshops on environmental education to community outreach workers and teachers in Tijuana, Malinalco (Edo Mex.) and Oaxaca; and is actively involved on the board of the Community Foundation Malinalco. From 2007 to 2009 he was coordinator of environmental education program of the foundation Selva Negra on the coast of Oaxaca. She has participated in more than 25 solo exhibitions and 8 Coletivas in different forums such as the Academy of San Carlos, Centro Cultural Isidro Fabela, Museo Luis Mario Snheider, Cloister of Sor Juana, Communication University, among others.
In 2002 he received the recognition of CONACULTA, INBA and the National Arts Centre for its project "Voices and Xi'Ui viciones of children, which led her to make a traveling exhibition by Hamada Children's Museum of Art, Papalote Museo del Niño and the Museum de Culturas Populares.
Alberto Ordáz
Mexico
Nationality: Mexican, 04 March 1976. Place of birth: Zacatecas, Zac. Lic. Philosophy, from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas.
Maestrante in Philosophy and History from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. Member of the fine arts the second staircase at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. 1995 to present. (Mtro Coordinator. Catarino del Hoyo Avila.) 2006- Member of printmaking workshop and painting Julio Ruelas in Zacatecas to date. (Coordinated by Maestro Alejandro Nava) + 2009, Student in Specialty in Lithography at the Center for the Arts in Guanajuato, Maestro Rafael Zepeda. Specializing in Lithography in Ceiba graphically -The workshop with Master Per Anderson. 2011- Research Center Founder and artistic creation "The Hall". Coordinator of the graph. Zacatecas.
Founder Collective Va y Ven (Mexico-France) 2013 to date. Coordinator Annual Graduate in Lithography taught in the Veta-Graphic Workshop Founder and principal Veta Lithography Workshop Graphics in Vetagrande, Zacatecas, Mexico
Jaime Ortiz
Mexico
Jaime Alberto Ortiz Lozano is an artist and Mexican art director, based in Mexico City. Ortiz Lozano attended the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany (2000-2006), where he studied with Lothar Baumgarten. From 2005 to 2007 he also studied editorial design at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochshule.
The work of Ortiz Lozano includes photography and video. The main interest of his work is related to the existential reflection of reality, in an effort to capture some non-visible thresholds where other dimensions of reality can escape. His job is an attempt to ask questions rather than offer answers. It can be read as a chain of seemingly unrelated events where each piece functions as flags that mark zero points, allowing stories to be told forward or backward, depending on the viewer's need to go back, stop, or continue a non-story Delimited.
Maria José Romero
Mexico
Alfredo De Stéfano
Mexico
Alfredo De Stéfano
Mexico
He was born in Monclova, Coahuila, a city in northeastern Mexico located in the middle of the desert. He is considered one of the most important contemporary conceptual photographers in Mexico. His passion is the landscape and specifically that of the desert, panorama that has traveled endless of times photographing and intervening.
Between its photographic series they emphasize Of the places without future (1992), Dresses of the paradise (1996), To inhabit the void (2002) and Brief chronicle of light (2006). Since 2008 he has been working on his new series, Storm of Light, which takes place in different deserts of the world.
There are more than ninety expositions, both individual and collective, and his work has been exhibited on five continents as well as in different capitals of the world such as Mexico, Paris, Sao Paulo, New York, Washington, Madrid, Bogotá , Lima, Buenos Aires among others. His photographs have appeared in many books and magazines and his work is in public and private collections in Mexico and abroad. Since 2008 he has been a member of the National Creator System
Sara Ivon
Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (1982). Sara Ivone, words are abstractions with sounds and sounds have their particular colors, so that their drawings, the two-dimensional, and those who become independent to be present in space, force us to hear them and not so much to see them. Or better to say: to see them as if we were listening to them. They are searched in space as the words come together in a sentence so that it gains poetic.
She lives and works in Mexico City.
Still a professional painter, her work refuses to belong. In an introjective breath, his painting has been growing with the expectation: his multiple exhibitions appear in spaces that have little to do with the previous one, and always ends up generating interesting controversies.
Very committed to her own time, this young author continues to remember, worthily, the being of painting, the being of art. In his career there are some twenty very memorable individual exhibitions and some important collective ones. He has participated in several multidisciplinary artistic projects and collaborates with several architects in projects of space intervention.
His painting, which connotes a conceptual abstractionism, also tends to search the figure before, before being conceived, move away from it again and rest in the significance of the stroke, the contrast and the transparency, all traits of the sensory.
His painting is a bold painting, because in contrast to the recent movements and non-canonical cannons of current art, it is independent. His academic formation took place in Boston University and in School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, Massachusets, in the United States of North America. She has been a pupil of Roberto Cortázar, Arturo Buitrón and Gustavo Aceves.
She paints concepts.
Franco Arocha
Guatemala
Guatemala, 1992. Franco Arocha, archaeological artist with strange and anonymous tones. Order the fragmented to discover how the painting marks our landscape and our history.
Franco Arocha, the maker of a meticulous work, where the fragments of layers of paint removed from the walls of the city are coupled to rediscover the memory accumulated in the walls and daily life.
The juxtaposition designed by Arocha provides suggestive forms that perhaps recall the beginnings of abstract art and the vestiges of impressionism of the early twentieth century, in a sort of return to the bases of modern art. "Folding the historical reality an ideological discourse that the unknown can not function without a fantastic materialization of the memory, layers of time and the colors that decorated"
Mathias Goeritz
Mexico
Fabián Ugalde
Mexico
Mathias Goeritz (Poland 1915 - Mexico 1990). He was a sculptor, poet, art historian, Mexican architect and painter of German origin associated with the tendency of constructive abstraction and impeller of the "emotional architecture"; After World War II, he established himself in Mexico, leaving one of the most important artistic legacies of the country's cultural history, being one of the protagonists of Mexican plastic and architectural modernity.
Factors such as color, lighting and water use establish special characteristics in environments, which sharpen certain senses in the human being. Each of these elements has details that, when viewed together, create environments that make a difference and make us appreciate each place in a unique way. It is not surprising that Goeritz wanted to relate his experiment to the classical architecture of cathedrals and mosques, buildings open to the metaphysical; Places where the main activity is always to come, as it is a transit space for those who inhabit it, in favor of the emancipation of the human experience in search of the expansion of the meanings of life.
Omar Torres
Mexico
For Omar Torres, photography is an iconic representation much more codified than is usually admitted, in his projects creates and captures ambiguous and evocative situations capable of transgressing the traditional perception of photography.
His training is part of the National Center for Culture and Arts, Diploma in World Cinema History and Filmmaking, Cineteca Nacional México and the Active School of Photography.
His work has been presented in countries such as the United States, Spain, Japan and Mexico and in collections such as SHCP, The World Bank of Art, Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, Central Art Projects and the Nestle Collection.
He currently lives and works in Mexico City.
Quiriarte + Ornelas
Mexico
Mexican artists duo Anabel Quirarte (Mexico City, 1980) and Jorge Ornelas (Mexico City, 1979). Live and work in Mexico City. They work in collaboration (Quirarte & Ornelas) since 2004 and have had their work exhibited individually in New York , Frankfurt, Seoul, Monterrey and Mexico City, and in group shows in different cities in America, Europe and Asia.
Art Collections: The Würth Museum, Germany. KGAL Collection, Germany. Madeira Foundation, Portugal. National Economic Culture Fund, Mexico. National University Art Museum (MUAC), Mexico City.
Awards: Baden-Württemberg scholarship in the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Germany. Honorable Mention, “XIII Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial”. Pepsi Light Art Collection 2007. First price, "Premio Luna, una expresión Artística", 2009. National Fund for Culture and the Arts Grant, 2006-2007 and 2013-2014, Mexico.
Erika Harrsch
Mexico
Born in Queretaro, Mexico, in 1967. After graduating from La Esmeralda (INBA) in 1997, Fabián Ugalde began exhibiting his paintings in various museums, cultural spaces and university forums in Mexico, as well as in Europe, Asia and South America.
The work of Ugalde has won awards in various competitions, including the first place of acquisition in the Biennial X of Painting Rufino Tamayo (2000), a first prize of acquisition in the 3rd. Salón de Octubre, Omnilife Grand Prix (2001) and the second place in the 3rd Ex Teresa Arte Actual Installation Contest.
He has twice received support for residency and production projects from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Ministry of Culture. In 2001 he received a scholarship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. In 1999 Ugalde received the Young Creators Fellowship from Fonca and has belonged to the National System of Artistic Creators of FONCA in two of its broadcasts: 2004 and 2010.
In recent years Ugalde gave two-dimensional production workshops at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving , La Esmeralda and was a member of the Academic Council of that institution.
Marc Breslin
USA
Marc Breslin was born in New York in 1983. He lives in Los Angeles and works primarily as a painter. Themes of location and time, their loss and reconstruction, recur in his work. He views his practice as an opportunity to create “shared encounters both art historically and personally.” His painting practice is akin to storytelling. Characters and plot lines find themselves as series of paintings – Power Lines, Swing Sets, Cartoons, Teeth, Birds and Birdhouses, Portraits, Trains – the list goes on. His subjects lucidly examine abstract parts of our existence.
Among other exhibitions, Breslin has per- formed at the Emily Harvey Foundation (New York) and participated in the New Mu- seum’s (New York) Festival of Ideas. Work of his was included in the exhibition, Ger- hard Richter and the Disappearance of the Image in Contemporary Art, at the Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina at the Palazzo Strozzi (Firenze) and site-specific installations at Fondazione RivoliDue (Milano) and Galleria Umberto Di Marino (Na- poli). Cindy, Carmine, George, Pierre and others is Breslin’s first exhibit in Mexico.
Omar Arcega
Mexico
He was born in the city of Puebla, Mexico in 1981. He graduated from the Bachelor of Fine Arts of the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, "La Esmeralda". His first individual exhibition was held in 2005: "Route of travel", in the House of Culture of Puebla.
It was followed by "SAFARI" (2009) and "PARANOIA" (2012), both presented in Mexico City. Collectively, his work has been part of more than thirty exhibitions. Some of them have been carried out in foreign cities such as Chicago and Buenos Aires, and the interior of the country, in Saltillo, Aguascalientes, Monterrey, Apizaco (Tlaxcala) and Mexico City.
Between the precincts they emphasize the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, the House of the Lake, the Border Gallery. In 2004 he received the honorable mention at the 4th Contemporary Art Meeting of the Contemporary Art and Design Gallery. In 2008 and 2010 he obtained the scholarship of the Program of Incentives to the Creation and Development of the Artistic State of the State of Puebla.
Born in Mexico City, Harrsch has lived in several cities throughout the country, as well as Italy, Germany, and Brazil; for the past fourteen years she has lived and worked in New York City. She has been defined as a multidisciplinary artist, employing traditional mediums along with new media and technologies to articulate her concepts and interests.
Harrsch’s solid background as a painter has been essential and visible in her aesthetic process, and her artwork is continually being filtered through images, the representation of the object, spaces, and colors; the work stems from experimentation and the processes themselves, and only later becomes articulated. These visual and formal processes are infused with multilayered references, a complex weave of the strata of meanings, which in turn make possible the extraction of multiple readings and narratives concerned with individual and cultural preoccupations, as well as critical social, political, and environmental issues.
Erika Harrsch has been selected to participate in the Fokus-Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland, 2010; 798 Biennale, Beijing, China, 2009; International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea, 2008; Fotofest Biennial, Houston, Texas, 2008; as well as the 6th and 7th FEMSA-Monterrey Biennial, Mexico, in 2003 and 2005.
Pedro Friedeberg
Mexico
Matteo Cordero
Italy
Matteo Cordero was born in Italy in 1988. He studied for a high school diploma in Fine Art at the Liceo Artistico Ego Bianchi in Cuneo. During this time, he moved from copying Old Masters to developing his own style, and created his first personal paintings and sculptures.
In 2007, Cordero enrolled at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin on the sculpture course, creating conceptual installations and videos. In 2009, he moved to London. He completed a BA in Creative Advertising at the London College of Communication, whilst working on his own art.
In 2016, he graduated with an MA Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art in London. During the MA course he dramatically changed and developed his own style to a greater expression. The MA course culminated at the end of 2016 with the Chelsea Summer Show where Cordero exhibited in his own studio large canvases paintings pinned to the wall of the exhibition space and two life-size figure sculptures.
In 2017, Cordero exhibited a large portrait at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition that depicts his mother. The portrait was exhibited in the Gallery VI curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) RA of the Royal Academy as part of Summer Exhibition collective show.
Pedro Friedeberg (January 11, 1936 –) is a mexican artist and designer known for his surrealist work filled with lines colors and ancient and religious symbols.
His best known piece is the “Hand-Chair” a sculpture/chair designed for people to sit on the palm, using the fingers as back and arm rests. Friedeberg began studying as an architect but did not complete his studies as he began to draw designs against the conventional forms of the 1950s and even completely implausible ones such as houses with artichoke roofs.
However, his work caught the attention of artist Mathias Goeritz who encouraged him to continue as an artist. Friedeberg became part of a group of surrealist artists in Mexico which included Leonora Carrington and Alice Rahon, who were irreverent, rejecting the social and political art which was dominant at the time. Friedeberg has had a lifelong reputation for being eccentric, and states that art is dead because nothing new is being produced.
Mario Lucatero
Mexico
Mario Lucatero, 1981. After graudating from the Ibero-American University with a degree in Industrial Design, Mario has worked with several interior design firms for over a decade.
Always interested in the arts, Mario continues his studies as a painter with the world- renowned Mexican artists Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Oscar Bachtold and Tomas Gomez Robledo, Gabriel Macotela.
Mario’s work is characterized by various techniques, styles, sizes and subject matters that impress him and that he
reproduces through his paintings.
Fabián Martínez
Cuba
He studied at the Provincial School of Plastic Arts "José Joaquín Tejada", in Santiago de Cuba (1990-94) and higher art studies at the Superior Institute of Art in the specialty of painting (1994-2000).
He has made numerous personal and collective exhibitions nationally and internationally, in galleries, universities and cultural centers in countries such as Cuba, USA, Spain, Turkey and Lebanon.
His works are in personal collections such as Anita and Jay Hyman, Gracie Lawrance and Michael Daher; also from institutions and universities such as: Florida Atlantic University, Cornell University, Washintong Governours Club, Granada Poster Gallery, Spain, Upstairs Gallery Lebanon and at the International Salon of Turkey SIMAVI.
Other works in the field of graphic humor have earned me a special prize in the Personal Caricature Contest of the Museum of San Antonio de Los Baños and a mention in the humor room Juan David. C. Havana. Also participation in different years at the International Salon of Turkey, SIMAVI.
He currently works as an independent artist belonging to the Visual Arts Development Center in Cuba.
Enrique Jezik
Argentina
Enrique Ježik's work has focused on the analysis of violence from different angles and with different strategies. Reflect on power, urban violence and war, the use of weapons and surveillance, the manipulation of information by the media. It has incorporated actions of a destructive nature as a reflection of the violent processes that characterize our era, using, among other means, weapons and heavy machinery as prosthetic tools developed by man to extend his power beyond his own body and that is why they have focused on the development of power relations.
His work on the surveillance and manipulation of information has led him to use intelligence images of recent wars, such as a certain media archeology, integrating them in installations in which the direct reference to a specific war conflict serves as a starting point for new reflections.
Jezik, originally from Argentina, has been living and working in Mexico City for 23 years. His work has been exhibited in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Museums and galleries such as University Museum of Contemporary Art, (MUAC), Carrillo Gil Museum, SOMA, MACO, Alameda Art Laboratory and in cities such as Argentina, USA, Czech Republic and Brazil.
%200.png)
Jerónimo Ruedi
Argentina
Jerónimo Rüedi (Argentina, 1981) began his art studies in Argentina before moving to Barcelona, where he specialized in sculpture. Later his focus shifted to painting while collaborating on several projects with multi-disciplinary creators, refining his visual and conceptual vocabulary through an intersection of painting, video and spatial analysis. Between 2000-2014, Rüedi resided in between Barcelona and Berlin, and later moved to Mexico City to found Aeromoto, the first contemporary art library in Mexico. Over the last several years, Rüedi has been a resident artist of the Experimental Museum El Eco, managed the collection of the museum Muca Roma (UNAM’s Museum of art and science) produced stage scenery for the play Jazz Palabra by Juan José Gurrola (Casa del Lago, Mexico DF / LA Theater Center, Los Angeles, California), exhibited in the framework of the exhibition “Challenge to Stability, Artistic Processes in Mexico 1952-1967” at MUAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo), while maintaining and exhibiting projects of Aeromoto at NADA Art Fair (NYC, USA), Visual Arts Center of The University of Texas at Austin, (TX, USA) ArteBa Art Fair (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ArtBO (Bogotá, Colombia). He has also independently published two books, The Stuff dreams are made of... and Apropos of Nothing (In collaboration with Wendy’s Subway, NYC)
His line of recent research in the pictorial field is processual and physical, based on principles of action and sustained response. His work distances itself from modern abstract currents in the attempt to transcend the material surface of the work. His canvases seek to reconcile the material aspect of painting with that new multi-layered objectivity that we inhabit. Articulate an abstract language based on the perception of a reality that is divided and self-replicated.
Rafael Uriegas
Mexico
Rafael Uriegas (Málaga, España. 1982) Lives and works in Oaxaca.
He graduated form the ENPG “La Esmeralda” in Visual Arts. Afterwards, he mada a MFA in the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Among his solo exhibitions stand Gizon Zintzoa, MUPO (Oaxaca, 2015); Laguna, Galería Karen Huber, (Mexico City 2015); Pintura Silva, Galería Toca, (Mexico City 2014); Santa María en Marte, Galería Border, (Mexico City 2009).
Collectively his artworks have been presented at national and international exhibitions, such as X Bienal de Nicaragua (Managua y León, Nicaragua 2016); Después del Eden, SAPS Siqueiros, La Tallera (Cuernavaca, Morelos 2015); Bienal de Yucatán (Mérida, Yucatán 2015); Profil Perdu, MC Gallery (Nueva York, NY 2015); Luciano Benetton Foundation, Bienal de Venecia, (Italia 2015); En el Umbral, Museo de la Ciudad de Cuernavaca (Cuernavaca, Morelos 2014); Bienal del Paisaje, (MUSAS, Sonora, Mex. 2014); El Hombre ha Muerto, Universidad de Grime (Holand 2013); ¿Buscar lo real? Museo Nacional de San Carlos. (Mexico City. 2012); Paralelas Contemporáneas IV, Galería Oscar Román, (México, D.F. 2011); Justina, Co-lab, (Copenhaguen, Denmark 2009); Viento Macho, Centro Cultural Border, (Mexico City, 2009).
In 2014 he received the adquisition prieze from the XVI Bienal de pintura Rufino Tamayo. In 2013-2014 he was granted by the Programa Jóvenes Creadores. FONCA. México.
Juan José Díaz Infante
Mexico
Your body. My body. A poem about bodies, all bodies, about the forces that interact with each other, about gravity, the force of attraction between them.
The simplicity of two cubes that are bodies that attract, generate an image that takes us through several cosmos, the intimate cosmos of two lovers who do not know how to detach themselves, the bodies that float in the universe and that accelerate each other, the microscopic, the generation of eros and life. It is a poem that walks infinitely large distances and other distances that are of another scale, human. Poem that breathes and blushes, expands and contracts thanks to its matter, deals with two cubes in space, and refers us to Newton and Einstein. To the apple and to the distortion of time - space. Tension field of fictitious forces that admits dark matter.
Newton: the effects of gravity are always attractive. It has infinite reach. Two bodies, however far away they are, experience this force. Einstein: by effect of the mass of the bodies; Space and time assume a dynamic role. Where G is the constant point of Universal gravitation
Anrew Fisher
USA
Andrew Fisher earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Sculpture, Drawing and Metal Arts from the California College of the Arts. His studio practice is focused on painting, sculpture, and the design and crafting of extraordinary furniture and light fixtures. Simultaneously, he has achieved wide recognition for his achievements in interior design.
Fisher’s past work includes several series of tapestries crafted from coffee filters, used to make coffee and then painted, cut and quilted together; a series of works on paper incorporating discarded plastic tarps; monoprints; and paintings on canvas. His current work blends his love of metal and sculpture. Using canvas, steel, and paper, Fisher creates intricately sewn tapestries which he paints and gilds with 24 karat gold. He also creates dramatic sculptures in steel and brass — again, completely gilded with 24 karat gold.
Andrew Fisher lives and works in San Francisco and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Armando De la Garza
Mexico
Armando de la Garza (Monterrey, 1973) is an artist assigned to a work of perimeter incisive, rough, sharp and tight. And even with the delicacy of accuracy more precisely, the load of meaning that his works keep makes complex the separation of spaces in an evolutionary line marked by the more acute Mordacidad without acrimony, on the contrary, container of a tenderness that makes it bearable in the most unpalatable and delicate environments, those that they need to be split with a scalpel knife as thin as firm, the same one on which he builds with strength his speech of thought.
"The Misfortunes of Virtue "leaves behind a dichotomous trace of manifest sophistication and delicacy, shaped through characters, situations, atmospheres and objects that constitute a story very similar to a story with moral that does not allow to be dragged by something as ephemeral and vulgar as the good taste, but to be governed by an irony that always chisels with his intelligent chisel and that serves as a synecdoque argument. In this style exercise, they annihilate and spur morality and scrutinize (with an enthusiastic psychoanalytic way) excessive mercy, false posture, pretentious custom or tattered appearance.
The penetration into the manipulated realities is what leads the artist to show a formula with ingredients other than ridicule, close to the noble and to abandon the unnecessary interpretive prologues to balance the presence of what it shows with the real impact that -according to decide- it must be caused.
%202.png)
Pej Behdarvand
Iran
Despite the project name, the images of these salvaged cars photographed by Pej Behdarvand are not documented in direct allusion to the deathbeds of humans, morgues, or even crime-scene photos. When Behdarvand stepped foot into the auto junkyard world, with its churchly order of rows upon rows of irreparable machines, he was entering a kind of purgatory.
The vehicles in this photo series are depicted as if museum objects, yet unlike museum objects these wrecked cars are not to be physically preserved intact for posterity, but will be crushed for reuse in another form. The photo is the only document of the auto in this unique, temporary state: after its useful life, before it is reincarnated into recyclable material. What information is captured in these images?
A glimpse of the nebulous phase of a manmade thing, with remnants of brand choice and societal status, with evidence of family and pride, categorized indifferently with grease-pencil marks. In Deathbed, the photo is a relic, a relic of a car relinquished to the junkyard to be held until it is no longer a car.
Pej Behdarvand, lives at Tulum currently.