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Alberto Oderiz (Navarre, 1983)
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  @alberto_oderiz

Studied Architecture at ETSA in Barcelona and a Master’s
degree at the UNAM. He’s been living in Spain and Mexico for
the past ten years.

He has recently been working under “La Inexplicable Roca”
theme, using archeology’s methods to explore different events
of the present which, due to their tragically rebellious nature or

Oderiz uses local materials and social resources, opening up his
projects to participation and appropriation that may emerge
throughout his processes.

“La Inexplicable Roca” is an exploration on our capacity to make
symbols out of matter. Sculpture, collage, and photography ope-
rate as tools to transform a rock into the moon, a piece of wire
into a cloud or a series of gold bullions into a mountain.

Atardecer (Cuarto Menguante), 2019
Pink stone from Queretaro
50 x 40 x 10 cm

Pirámide, 2021
Plaster and gold leaf
40 x 30 x 40 cm

Borja Colom Bofarull (Madrid, 1998)
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  @borjacolom

Architecture student and enthusiast of visual arts. From cinema-
tography to the pictoric realm, Borja has taken advantage of
every tool available in order to express his creativity. His career
as an artist began recently, during his stay in Mexico City, where

As part of a collection based on the reduction of architectural
space, “Y Corner” and “B Corner” portray both an essential and
inevitable element in architecture: corners. One of the main ins-
pirations for the collection is the Mexican renown architect Luis
Barragan, who’s formal aesthetics and usage of colour stands
out. In a two-dimensional canvas, “Corner” pieces seek for a
three-dimensional sense through a simple gesture. The artwork
of this young artist uses colour as a transitory element towards
capturing light and depth.

Y Corner, 2020
Corner Series
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 50 cm

B Corner, 2020
Corner Series
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 50 cm

Celine Maestroni (Malaga, 1950)
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  @celinemaestroni_art

Daughter of French people born in Malaga, which soon moved to
Paris at the age of 9. She studied Economics at Université de
Dauphine and later started working with textiles. She then
moved to Madrid to work full time in fashion, jewelry, and accessory
design, where she founded Abalorios Maestroni S.A, where she
took care of the execution and distribution of European pro-
ducts. She is currently studying at the Escuela de Artes y Anti-
güedades, where she is widening her knowledge on different
styles and techniques of the classic and avant-garde masters.
She completed her artistic education as pupil to Lalo Relinque
Aragón (painter).

Her work has been shown in several parts of Spain, including Madrid,
Ibiza, Marbella, and Barcelona, as well as France, Switzerland, and
South Korea. Her most recent show was at the Galerie Sonia Monti
in Paris in December 2020.

She is a passionate artist who has spent her life making her
dream a reality, expressing her emotions and life experiences
through painting, fashion, and jewelry.

Mur 8 MX, 2020/21
Mixed media on canvas

Hector de Anda (Jalisco, 1950)
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  @hector.deanda.37

He studied Theatre at UNAM and has gone through several disciplines,
studying Art History and Photography at Academia Lorenzo di
Medici in Florence, Serigraphy at Academia de San Carlos, and
workshops with masters such as Dimitrio Sarras and Julio Castillo.
He was a member of the theatre group named Ergonico led by
Juan Carlos Uviedo, and also editor for Vogue Magazine. He was
a member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores art programme
from 2011 to 2014.

His work belongs to collections such as MUAC UNAM, the
Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, the Museo de Arte
Carrillo Gil, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena de Indias,
the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Aguascalientes, among
others. To this moment, his work has been shown in more than
50 solo exhibitions, and in more than 70 group exhibitions in
Mexico and in foreign countries.

Hector de Anda’s work is characterised by capturing the movement
and sounds of urban life, through his own language. He gathers
multiple materials into a wide variety of assemblies, collages, and
interventions, where he puts forth a meaning-charged reading.
He works with multiple mediums, such as paintings, sculptures,
installations, books of artists, videos and objects that revolve
around the individual’s relationship with his place and time.

El Cuerpo Interior XII, 2016
Mixed on wood
100 x 100 cm

El Cuerpo Interior XII, 2016
Mixed on wood
107 x 75 cm

Irene Zundel (Mexico City, 1958)
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   @irenezundel

She studied Graphic Design at the Philadelphia College of Art.
She was a pupil of Enrique Jolly, considered one of the best
sculptors in Mexico, where she realised that abstraction and

and her inner world. Her work is based on the graphic and ultimately
physical representation of sound.

Zundel has worked with different materials such as wax, clay, ceramics,

Plexiglas, from which she has been able to conceive fascinating
projects through limitless possibilities. To get to these results,
she went through an arduous learning and research process,

movement for the spectator through a multiplicity of colours and light.

Some of her most important exhibitions include: Ottro il Vello
dell´ Apparenza at the Sala Tiziano in 2017, a collective exhibition
at Zona MACO 2016, and her individual show at the Franz
Mayer Museum in 2014. In 2017 she was invited to participate
at the Biennale di Venezia.

Divergencia, 2017
Plexiglas
63 x 63 x 63 cm

Isauro Huizar (Sinaloa, 1985)
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   @isaurohuizar

He took the SOMA educational programme. As an extension of
his practice, he has done museum projects for galleries and insti-
tutions, unfolding his singular narrative abilities. He also periodically

introducing children to art. He is currently the co-editor of AAF,
a magazine on special topics, as well as the Abstract Painting
Mexico project, which he administers, being a personal exploration
to learn and to promote the work of Mexico-based painters.

Since 2014, his work has been shown in more than 20 individual
and group exhibitions in Mexico, London, Italy, the United States,
Ireland, Japan, and France. He has worked on several curatorial
projects, his most recent being Juegos y Hermosísimo Lucero in
Mexico City. He has also had art residencies in several cities, in-
cluding Los Angeles, Tokyo, Besançon, Mexico City, Oaxaca and
Monterrey.

His work is inspired by daily life and his daily routine. Through
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derstand what surrounds him. He practices painting, sculpture,
and most recently he has fallen into writing and photography.

Carduelis magellanica, 2018
Acrylic and ink injection on canvas
100 x 75 cm

Zanate, 2018
Acrylic and ink injection on canvas
90 x 60 cm

Lourdes Almeida (Mexico City, 1952)
Courtesy of the Oscar Roman Gallery in Mexico City
  @galeriaoscarroman

She studied Photography in Florence, in 1972. She took the
Charlas de Otoño workshop given by famous photographer
Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In 1982 she joined Javier Hinojosa and
Gerardo Suter in the Taller de la Luz a group of photographers
interested in the manual intervention, experimentation with
early methods of printing and fragmentation of images through
individual Polaroid frames. She is currently considered a master
in experimental Polaroid photography in Mexico. She worked as
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berto Hermosillo.

Since 1978 she has had more than 100 individual exhibitions in
some of the most important museums in Mexico, Latin America,
the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work is a part of several
public and private collections, including: The International Polaroid
Collection at Cambridge, the Museum of Fine Arts at Houston,
the Castilnovo Foundation in Spain; El Chopo, among others.

Her photos stand out for the notorious manipulation of images
where she scratched or scribbled the emulsion to create multiple
effects; the vibrant colours; and the relationship between religious
symbolism with everyday places and objects.

Desierto, 2014
Acrylic mounted print on lambda
69 x 100 cm

Luis Lopez Loza (Mexico City, 1939)
Courtesy of the Oscar Roman Gallery in Mexico City
  @galeriaoscarroman

He studied at Escuela de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda, at
Mexico City’s Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas and at Pratt
Graphic Art Center in New York. In 1975, he received the Gug-
genheim Scholarship. He taught engraving at the Strumica Uni-
versity in former Yugoslavia and the Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht,
Netherlands. In 2009 he was chosen as a member of the Academia
Artes de Mexico. In 2010, he was granted the Premio Nacional
de Ciencias y Arte in the category of Fine Arts by the Mexican
Government.

He has participated in more than 40 exhibitions in Mexico, the
United States, Japan, Spain, Ecuador, former Yugoslavia, and
Canada. Some of his works are at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York, the National Art Museum in Poland, the Museo de Arte
Moderno de Mexico and Casa de las Americas in Cuba.

He wanders upon traditional pictorial values, which are then taken
to the brink of breaking, which he then uses to turn into “anti-values”.
His use of colour without texture, placed in deep contrasts, places
him among the gutters of traditional art. His main mediums are
sculpture, drawing and graphics.

Estructura para una idea de volumen, 2011
Oil on canvas
140 x 140 cm

Resplandor amarillo, 1990
Oil on canvas
150 x 140 cm

Marcela Lobo (Mexico City, 1959)
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 @mloboarte

Painter, photographer, and ceramist that started in 1987. She
started her artistic education when she studied engraving with
Nela Gaos and Leticia Tarrago. painting with Mercedes Escobar
and Luis Granda; and photography with Saul Serrano, Ignacio Urquiza,

Since 1991 she has had 30 individual arts exhibitions in Mexico,
the United States and Europe, which include: El Colour de
México at the Instituto Cultural de Mexico in France and the Palacio
de Independencia in Portugal; El colour de lo at the Museo Dolores
Olmedo; Allá lejos y tiempo atrás at Casa Lamm; Sitios, espacios

Museo de Arte Moderno, Toluca; and Cuerpos vibrantes at
CECUT, MACAY and Museo Jose Luis Cuevas.

Her work consists in “living natures” or still lifes of intense colours,
household scenes of a particular lightness and airiness, and more
abstract explorations about the body and the feminine, which she
has also dealt with in her photography. Her collages and assembly
works include multiple series of self-referential work. In 2013,
she published her photography book Crisis, mujer con estilo.

Un perfecto equilibrio, 2008
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 150 cm

Maribel Portela (Mexico City, 1961)
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 @maribel_portela

She studied Visual Arts at ENAP in UNAM. In 2011 she received
the FONCA - Conacyt artistic residence at the Fine Arts Academy
at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In 2012 she was a visiting
professor at the Tsinghua University. In 1994 she was given a
FONCA scholarship. She has been a member of the Sistema Nacional
de Creadores art programme since 2001.

She has participated in more than 100 group art exhibitions in
Mexico, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the United
States. Her individual exhibitions have taken place in Spain,
China, Canada, the United States, Switzerland and Mexico the
most outstanding being Materia Oscura C3 at the UNAM;
Origen albo at the Drexel Gallery; La voluntad de la forma at the
Centro de Mexico in Madrid; Dialogues of Space Expanding between
Mexico City and Beijing, TJ in China Project; among many others.

Her work is an ode to nature with materials that show her how
paper and seeds should be treated. Beauty is distinct and the

the show an involving and magical atmosphere. The surge from
the memory of a cultural part translated into a contemporary variation
that marches within time itself.

Vara Dorada, 2020
Lost wax bronze
144 x 14 x 15 cm

Personajes, 2017
Clay, engobe and mixed media
Varying measures

Martha Saenz (Sonora, 1975)
  @marthasaenzd

2020, she spent a few days in the Northern border, where she
and a group of artists had intervened on the wall that separates
Tijuana in Mexico from San Ysidro in the United States, in a piece
called “El muro de la hermandad”. The message she wants to
communicate in this project is that our inner walls which keep us
from opening to others, must be torn down.

2020, at the Antigua Sede del Senado de la Republica in Mexico;
which had to be rearranged due to the pandemic. She discovered
she could communicate feelings that cannot be put into words
through art, which is why she considers that at this point, all her
work is autobiographical.

Martha Saenz uses pastel as primary tool to elaborate her
pieces, in which she also merges multiple elements and shapes

moments and characters which whom she stablishes a special
bond or a profound spiritual connection.

Pensando con el Corazón, 2020
Pastel on paper
90 x 70 cm

La mente del Pukz, 2021
Pastel on paper
90 x 70 cm

Matador (Mexico City, 1970)
  @israel_gonzalez_matador

He studied Graphic Design, with a specialty in Visual Communi-
cation, and has professional experience in cinema and architecture.
His approach to drawing and oil painting, with the help of his
mentor Maestro Anguiano, resulted in him eventually attending
painting workshops at the Academia San Carlos, and he later
learned to model with clay at the Museo del Templo Mayor in
Mexico City. This would lead him to nourish his approach to
pre-Colonial cultures at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia,
where he had the opportunity to learn about the world and the
mysticism of pre-Colonial cultures.

His work has been shown all over Mexico and the United States.
Through the reconciliation of his own cosmogony, Matador portrays
mystical, esoteric, and cabalistic themes. From an early age, Matador
began to question his own existence and his life mission, always
trying to discover the deeper meaning of things. His compositions

expressions in which ethics and aesthetics collide in a constant
conversation with the divine; the result is a kind of amulet, a
sacred object, a mandala or a mathematical– and therefore
divine – reinterpretation of classic works.

Halo de Luna, 2020
De la serie El camino del Sol
Acrylic and mixed media on cotton paper
50 x 70 cm

Prosperidad, 2020
De la serie El camino del Sol
Acrylic and mixed media on cotton paper
50 x 70 cm

Tláloc, 2020
Acrylic Series
Acrylic on canvas
112 x 112 cm

Paloma Torres (Mexico City, 1960)
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  @palomatorres1

She got her Bachelor’s degree from Artes Visuales en la Escuela
Nacional de Artes Plásticas at the UNAM, where she also did a
Master’s in colour engraving. She attended Huecograbado’s
course on colour at Atelier 17 at S. W. Hayter in Paris, as well as
resin courses, a professional engraving workshop with Carlos
García and impression techniques in ceramics with Graciela Olio.
She has completed several artistic residences in Oaxaca, Calcut-
ta, Quebec, Innsbruck, Shaanxi and Paris.

She has participated in more than 100 collective art shows and
53 individual shows, the most relevant being Museo de Arte Carrillo
Gil, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo Amparo in Puebla; Museo de
Arte in Zapopan; Museo Federico Silva in San Luis Potosi. In
2018, she presented her work in several collective art shows all
over Mexico, including collaborations with Francisco Toledo, the
UNESCO and other associations and museums.

Her work is part of several public and private collections such as
the Young Museum in San Francisco; the Mexican Ceramic Art
Museum in Shaanxi; the Daniela Chappard Foundation in Caracas;
the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City; the Museo de Arte
Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, in Zacatecas; the MUAC in Mexico
City; the Museo de Arte Ponce in Puerto Rico; the Auditorio Nacional
in Mexico City and collections in Denmark and Austria.

Paisaje Dorado, 2017
Zacatecas clay, engobes and gold leaf
112 x 62 cm

Plano de la Ciudad de México I, 2017
Wollen tapestry with natural dyes
143 x 193 cm

Plano de la Ciudad de México II, 2017
Wollen tapestry with natural dyes
143 x 193 cm

Sabino Guisu (Oaxaca, 1986)
  @sabinoguisu

Oaxaca. His mentor was Francisco Toledo, with whom he collaborated
and presented several times.

His work has been shown in several parts of Mexico and the
United States in more than 15 individual art shows, such as the
Galeria Quetzalli in Oaxaca, the Museo Internacional del Barroco
in Puebla, the Galeria NUDO in San Miguel de Allende and Casa
Mezcal in New York. His work has also travelled to England,
France, Germany and Norway in several collective art shows and fairs.

way to his most recent works – wool textiles and wooden sculptures
– he has been using organic materials. He uses the smoke from

portraits, sceneries, and landscapes. Sabino also tests with materials
such as honey, bees, mushrooms, wool, wood, silver, stone and
even neon light. His work is a path through the history of mankind,

materials in the current exploration of new techniques to create
an artistic object.

Mitla, 2019
Neon light and print mounted on wood
First edition, 3/5
139 x 82 cm

Tzompantli, 2019
Smoke on paper
112 x 76 cm

Salvador Santos (Madrid, 1972)
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  @salvadorsantosart

He studied Economics at the Universidad Computense in
Madrid; convinced that his path was through art, he began his artistic
education at the Chicago Institute of Design, where he studied
the work and philosophy of the Bauhaus movement in detail,
which was essential in the development of his work. He added to
his education studying Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology
in Chicago, which lead him to expand his projects into other

His work lies within the movement of light geometry. He uses
primitive geometric shapes in his compositions, combined with
more complex shapes to create planes and transparencies in a
two-dimensional space which reveals the spectator through the
application of light to this chromatic proposal. Through this

every colour possesses a spectral vibration which moves different
emotions, a fortunate chromatic poem that induces a powerful
stimulus to the imagination.

For each composition, he elaborates a thorough study of geometric
structures that reduce compositional resources to the maximum,
thus looking for what is essential in art. The many approximations

geometry and volumes. Thus, shapes combine and overlap, creating
tensions through chromatic effects of space and vibration.

Seashell X, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm

Sebastian (Chihuahua, 1947)
Courtesy of the Oscar Roman Gallery in Mexico City
  @galeriaoscarroman

He studied at the Academia San Carlos. Shortly thereafter he
studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas at the UNAM
in Mexico City. Sebastian is a member of the World Arts Forum
Council in the city of Geneva, Switzerland; full-time investigator
at UNAM; member of the Consejo Consultivo del Consejo Nacional

the Sistema Nacional de Creadores programme 1994-1996. He

prestigious universities in Mexico and abroad. In 2015 he won
the Premio Nacional de las Artes in Mexico.

He has done more than 190 individual art shows in Mexico, the
United States, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, the Netherland,
France, among many other. He has also had large-scale urban
shows in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Egypt, South America, the
United States and Mexico.

Since the 1970’s he has developed his own sculpting language
conducive to the creation of his transformational pieces. His in-
teraction work constitutes an unmatched example of an art that
depends on the audience’s participation. His work includes
sculpture, painting, graphic, industrial design, and yet he is
known as a sculptor of monumental urban pieces.

He is distinguished through the multidimensional geometric
shape he imprints in his sculptures. After more than 40 years, Se-
bastian is known as the most internationally acclaimed Mexican
contemporary sculptor.

Toroide simetría 5, 2004-14
Bronze with patina
34 x 34 x 13 cm

Torus tlahtolli, 2013
Bronze
29 x 26 x 28 cm