[ bio ]

He was born in Allende, Coahuila, on February 19th, 1961.
He lives in Monterrey, N.L., since 1978.

- studies of art -

Bachelor of Fine Arts. Art Institute. Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL), 1978-80.
Course of engraving lectured by Federico López Castro. Marco Museum. 1995.
Course of engraving Big Format lectured by Agustín Bejarano. UDEM 1996.
Course of Tridimensional Painting lectured by Arturo Rivera. Monterrey, 1998.

- awards -

2016. First Place, Paper Support, Bernardo Elosúa Farías Award 2016, Arte A.C.
2011. First Place. Hall of November 2011, Arte A.C. Monterrey N.L.
2010. First Place in the First Regional Biennial Angel Zárraga of Durango, Durango, Mexico. September 2010.
2006. Acquisition Award. XXVI Annual Review of Nuevo Leon's Plastic Arts. Nuevo Leon's House of Culture.
1998. Honorable Mention. First Monterrey's Old Town Cultural Festival. Bancomer Cultural Foundation. Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.
1997. First Place. Hall of November, Arte A.C. Monterrey N.L.
1996. Acquisition Award. Second Regional Biennal of Young Plastic Arts. Monterrey, N.L.
1996. Honorable Mention. XVI Annual Review of Nuevo Leon's Plastic Arts. Nuevo Leon's House of Culture.
1977. First Place, Junior Painting Contest. House of Culture. Piedras Negras, Coah.

- solo exhibitions -

1991. Among Colors, Images and Dreams. House of Art of the Cultural Institute of Tamaulipas. Cd. Victoria Tamaulipas.

1993. Baldomero Hernández. Procuraduría General de la República, Delegación Nuevo Leon.

1994. Mirror of the Life. Exposition in Victoria City, Tampaulipas as a part of the First Victoria City's Cultural Festival '94. of the Cultural Institute of Coahuila. Saltillo Coahuila.

1996. Finisterre. La Pérgola House of Culture. Col. Anáhuac, San Nicolas de los Garza, N.L.

1997. Interior Landscape. Painting, engraving and object art. Gallery
Valley of the Hills. Nuevo Leon´s House of Culture.

2007. Caminantes. Gallery of the Cultural Institute of Coahuila, ICOCULT Laguna, Torreón, Coahuila.

2008. Training. Facultad de Artes Visuales. UANL. October 2008.

- collective exhibitions (summary) -

1990. "All the creators sons of God". Musée de la Commanderie, Bordeaux, France. Integral part of the Exhibition of the Grand Prix D'Aquitaine 1990.
'L'Aura des Createurs. Chapelle de la Sorbonne. Paris, France. (November, 1990). Integral part of the Grand Prix de France International.

1991. Among Colors, Images and Dreams. Capilla Alfonsina. Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon. UANL.

1993. New Talents Hall. 1993 Edition. Mixed technique. Arte A.C. Monterrey, N.L.
"Viva Frida, Regia Frida". Nuevo Leon's Pinacoteca. Monterrey, N.L.

1994. The images. Organized by the Cultural Institute of Coahuila. Saltillo, Coah.

1996. XVI Review of the Nuevo Leon's Plastic Arts. Nuevo Leon´s House of Culture.
The images II. Cultural Institute of Coahuila. Saltillo, Coah.
First Regional Biennial of Young Plastic Arts 1996. Nuevo Leon's House of Culture.

1997. Hall of November 1997. Arte A.C. Monterrey, N.L.

1998. The portrait as a pretext. La BF.15 Gallery. Monterrey, N.L.
Exhibición de becarios. Cultural Institute of Coahuila. Saltillo, Coah.
First Monterey's Old Town Festival. Old Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.

1999. Hall of November. Awarded edition. Arte A.C. Monterrey.
Selection of Avant-guarde Work of the Nuevo Leon's Artistic Patrimony. Nuevo Leon's Pinacoteca.

2000. XX Review of the Nuevo Leon's Plastic Arts. Nuevo Leon's House of Culture.
"Transitions". Inaugural exhibition of Nuevo Leon's Centre for the Arts.
Hall of November. Arte A.C. Monterrey, N.L.

2001. I ARCO-ElMundo Award of Netart. Madrid, Spain.
Hall of November. Arte A.C. Monterrey, N.L.

2002. "Monterrey, Painting of our times". Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.
XXII Review of the Nuevo Leon's Plastic Arts. Nuevo Leon's House of Culture.

2003. He participated in the Wartime Project with "Huitzilopochtli & Co." Work for the net. The project was exhibited in different cities of the world. E.g. the Multimedia Centre of the National Centre for the Arts. México D.F.
He has received scholarships from organizations like State Found for Culture and Arts of Nuevo Leon (1994) and Coahuila (1996).

2004. XXIV Review of the Nuevo Leon's Plastic Arts. Nuevo Leon's House of Culture.

2005. Painting will never stop. CEDIM, Monterrey.
new geographies project www.laberintos.org/newgeographies
www.laberintos.org/m2

2006. Pretexts and contexts concerning the image. Itinerant exhibition for Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Chihuahua.

2007. Training project: www.laberintos.org/training
New values, 20 years later, collective exhibition. Art, A.C. Monterrey, N.L.
Review 60.80. Collective exhibition in "Oswaldo Guayasamín House", Habana, Cuba. Artists of Coahuila.

2008. "Paralelismos". Nuevo Leon's Pinacoteca.
Hall of November. Art, A.C. Monterrey, N.L.

2009. Portrait. Nuevo Leon's Pinacoteca.
“Nuevo León: Three Generations” Cultural Institute of Mexico in San Antonio, Texas, USA
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, septiembre-noviembre 2010, Denver, Colorado, USA.

2010. Collection Review of the Nuevo Leon's Plastic Arts. Nuevo Leon's Centre for the Arts. march-april.
First Regional Biennial Angel Zárraga of Durango, Durango, Mexico.

2011. Pins on the bubble (Eugenie Scrase is my friend at Facebook) Nuevo Leon's Pinacoteca.
Proposition 25. Contemporary authors for new collectors. Temporary Exhibition Hall, Palace Museum. Coahuila Festival 2011. Saltillo, Coah. August.
Hall of November 2011. Arte A.C. Monterrey, N.L.

2012. Festival Entijuanarte 2012. Galería Alvaro Blancarte, UABC Tijuana, B. California.
Paraphrase. Hogar de la Misericordia. Nuevo Leon's Centre for the Arts.

2013. Líneas de fuga. Nuevo Leon's Pinacoteca. Monterrey. Curator Eduardo Ramírez.
68 artists looking at the past. Hogar de la Misericordia. Plaza Fátima Cultural Center. San Pedro Garza, Garcia, N.L.

2014. Patrimonio Artístico Universitario, acervo incorporado a la Escuela de Artes Pásticas Rubén Herrera, UAC. Centro Cultural Casa Purcell.
Individualismo, diversidad en el arte. Exposición colectiva del Hogar de la Misericordia, Plaza Fátima Cultural Center. San Pedro Garza, Garcia, N.L.

2015. Octavio Paz y su pasión por el arte. XXIV exposición colectiva del Hogar de la Misericordia, Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza, Garcia, N.L.

2016. 20th exhibition Support Paper, Bernardo Elosúa Farías Award 2016, Arte, A.C.
XXV "Times of Light", collective exhibition of the Hogar de la Misericordia, Cultural Center
Fatima Square, San Pedro Garza, Garcia, N.L.

2017. Shock. Emotional landscape 2.0. House of Culture of Nuevo León.
Arte Nuevo León 2017, Center for the Arts, Generators Warehouse, Monterrey, N.L. March, June
Selected in the Rubén Herrera National Self-Portrait Biennial, Rubén Herrera Museum, Saltillo, Coahuila.
Identity and Nation in Mexican Art, collective exhibition of the Hogar de la Misericordia, Cultural Center
Fatima Square, San Pedro Garza, Garcia, N.L.

2018. PRE-TEXT, photobook exhibition and presentation, Galería Heart Ego, San Pedro Garza García, N.L.
"Iconography on the table" collective exhibition of the Hogar de la Misericordia, Pinacoteca de Nuevo León.
Selected in the 1st Art Nuevo León 2018 State Prize, Nuevo León Arts Center, Fundidora Park.
Selected in the XI National Biennial of Painting and Engraving Alfredo, Zalce, Museum of Contemporary Art Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Michoacán.

2019. Two worlds. XXVIII Collective Exhibition of the Hogar de la Misericordia, Color, Light and Reflection. Two worlds. Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza, García, N.L.
4 generations in the collection. Pinacoteca of Nuevo León. Curator of Rocío Cárdenas Pacheco. Sept 2019- February 2020.

2020.
Selected in the 2nd Nuevo León State Art Prize. Center of the Arts, Nave generators, Monterrey.

2021.
- Life is a cartoon. Gallery of the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights, Saltillo, Coahuila on tour at the Coahuila-Texas Museum, Monclova, Coah. April-August
- The triumph of painting. Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, 2021 -2022
- Gratitude. XXIX Collective Exhibition of the Hogar de la Misericordia. Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza, García, N.L.
- To the Meeting of the Sensitive. Exhibition and auction Instituto Nuevo Amanecer. San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León.

2022.
- Auction Expo, Nuevo Amanecer Institute, San Pedro Garza García, N.L.
- XXX Collective Exhibition of the Hogar de la Misericordia. Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza, García, N.L.

2023.
- XXXI Artificial intelligence, art and philosophy. Group exhibition of the Hogar de la Misericordia. Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza, García, N.L.