MEXICAN ARTISTS

She was born in 1960 in Mexico City and attended the Visual Arts School at the ENAP from UNAM. She has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico and internationally.  In 1994, she was awarded the prestigious FONCA scholarship, as well as awards from the National Auditorium Gallery in Mexico City (1987) and the José Luis Cuevas’ Museum (1998). She participated in Washington at Mexico’s Culture Institute, ‘Dream of Earth: 21st Century Tendencies in Mexican Sculpture’. Her sculptures concentrate on elements related to technique, tradition, religion, pre Hispanic symbols and sacred cultures. Her ceramic sculptures reflect a primitive, spontaneous, natural and symmetric being; full of fears, wishes, myths and dreams. Her work is represented by Aldo Castillo’s Gallery in Chicago.

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Perla was born in Mexico City in 1953.  She studied graphic design at the Plastic Art School of San Carlos at UNAM. She has shown her work in Mexico and abroad. In 1994, she joined the National Art Creators System of FONCA. She has dedicated part of her career to working with tapestries and textiles, combining both techniques with sculpture and ceramics. She was awarded the FONCA painting scholarship in 1993, the British Council Award , as well as the Textile Art and Tapestry Bienale (1984), the Young Artists Gathering (1983) and the Rufino Tamayo Bienale (1990). She is popular for her oil paintings, but she has also created sculptures and installations with stone, such as the work presented at Sonja Roesh Gallery in Houston.

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Betsabee is a plastic artist born in 1963. She lives in Mexico City and is a graduate from the Communication Sciences School of Universidad Iberoamericana.  She has a Masters in Arts from the San Carlos Academy and another in Art History from UNAM.  She also studied at the School of Beaux Arts in Paris. She is a sculptor, painter, collage artist and photographer. In 2006, she represented Mexico at the Voges & Partner in Frankfurt, Germany, and won the First Prize at the Cairo Bienale. She has been on the jury for the Rufino Tamayo Bienale and an exhibitor at the Spanish gallery La Caja Negra, which is considered by many as the entry door to the European market.

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Irma was born in Iguala, Guerrero in 1943. She grew up in different places, from Coahuila to Oaxaca, and from there, Puebla. She has received many awards such as the Simon Guggenheim and the National Artists System as well as from the Rufino Tamayo Bienale. She has shown her work at Mexico City’s Modern Art Museum (1983), Oaxaca’s Contemporary Art Museum (1955), Los Angeles Chac Mool Gallery (1995) and Yucatan’s Contemporary Art Museum. Her work has been labelled as abstract and lyrical; her most notable precedent is artist Lilia Carrillo.

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She was born in 1965 n Mexico City. Her studies took her to the National Plastic Art School of UNAM from 1976 to 1979, earning her a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts. Magali Lara has participated in more than fifty collective exhibitions and more than twenty individual shows in important spaces in Mexico and abroad. She has also been awarded numerous scholarships and prizes. Due to her prizes and the success of her numerous exhibitions, several museums and collections have acquired her work: MOMA, Contemporary Art Cultural Center (Mexico); Coca Cola (Mexico), Banamex Foundation (Mexico), Televisa Cultural Foundation (Mexico), Mexican Art Gallery (Mexico), Chicago Art Institute (Chicago), Alvar Art and Carrillo Gil Museums (Mexico), and José Luis Cuevas Museum (Mexico).

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She was born in 1967 in Mexico City. Her individual shows include the following: 2007, en Unit 2 Gallery, London (UK); en 2006, New Paintings en la Houldsworth Gallery, Londres (Inglaterra); en 2005 Sin Título -Ruth Benzacar - Galeria de Arte, Buenos Aires; en el 2000, en Yvonamor Palix, Paris. She alsp has collective exhibitions. In 2008- JerwoodSpace, London (UK); Permutations Musée de Valence, Valence; 2007- International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale; 2007 International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale, Incheon; Celeste Art Prize 2007 - Finalists Exhibition, Lyon; Turnbull, Edimburgh (Scotland);

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She was born in Kansas City in 1950. Between 1968 and 1969, she studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She also attended college at NY State University in Old Wesbury from 1969 to 1972, during which time the school was applying an experimental curriculum. She received her BA in Liberal Arts in 1972, the year she arrived in Mexico. These are some of her individual shows: Filosofía barata y viajes a las pirámides, Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. De Carrillo Gil, INBA, Mexico City., 1985; Dos décadas de obra gráfica, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, INBA - CNCA, Mexico City, 1992; El sueño que come al Sueño, Museo de Arte Moderno, INBA - CNCA, Mexico City.

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The artist was born in Mexico City in 1961. In 1978, she studied engraving and drawing at the Scuola Germanica di Roma, in Italy. A year later, she studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste de Sttutgart in Germany, where she participated in collective shows from 1984 to 1985. She has exhibited in the Bienales of Havana and Peru as well as paraticipating in Configura II at Erfurt, Alemania and "Brooklyn!" at the Palm Beach Museum for Contemporary Art. She was a lecturer at the Painting Academy of La Esmeralda from 1994 to 1999. She has participated as a visiting artist in the following programs:

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She was born in Mexico City on September 4th, 1971 and studied under Professors Luis Nishisaway and  Eduardo Ortiz Vera at the National Plastic Arts School, ENAP UNAM. She holds a BA in Painting from the National Painting School, as well as diplomas in engraving, sculpture and painting from La Esmeralda School at INBA. Her individual shows include: 1995: Elementos del Cuaderno Negro. Galerías del Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura Saltillo Coahuila; XXIII Festival Cervantino Guanajuato Gto.; 1996: Fundamentos de una Verdad Inédita. Vestíbulo de las oficinas Nacionales del CONALEP, Metepec Edo. Mex.; 1997: Apuntes de un Mundo Alquímico.

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The work shown here represents a breakthrough in her artistic endeavours. For the first time in her career, Lara, along with Arturo Guerrero, engages in the extreme determination of merging and sharing their talents in a series of more than twenty canvases painted spontaneously by both artists. The only similar case has been the work of the British photographers Gilbert and George. The ‘Animal Global’ Group’, formed by creators of several nationalities, convoked – or summoned as they like to call it - by Lara and Guerrero is an international adventure inspired by the topic of global identities. The purpose is the search for a global passport that will take them on a trip with no borders throughout our common land - Planet Earth.

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