Resource Page: Hispanic Artists
Wednesday, 06 April 2011 08:47
Hispanic and Latino art communities are huge and thriving across the United States and the world. The artists in this community have had shows in respected galleries and museums, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Check out the links to find the artists' work.
Born in Mexico in 1970, Amorales works and lives in Mexico. He works in a variety of media including video animation, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Popular works of Amorales have been shown in the MoMA, La Coleccion Jumex in Mexico City, and represented in Paris and New York by Yvon Lambert Gallery.
Condé is a Mexican figurative painter, draftsman, and etcher. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., he now lives and works in cities like Madrid and Sitges, Spain. He is a self taught artist and went to study anatomy studies with Stephen Rogers Peck in N.Y. He is an international artist who has received international prizes in France and shown numerous works in the MoMA.
Born in Mexico City in 1934. By the age of 14, Cuevas was illustrating numerous periodicals and books and had his first exhibition in Mexico City. His first published work was in 1953 called The Cactus Curtain, an article condeming aspects of the Mexican Mural movement. He has shown works in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Cornell University.
He is a Mexican visual artist. Guevara studied painting at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla and continued to study at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City.
Born in 1959 in Mexico City, Loyo is a comic book artist. He is the founder and CEO of Ka-Boom! Estudio. He has worked on projects like Tiny Toons, Looney Tunes, and The Simpsons. Currently, Loyo works in Karmatron Comic Book, and is working on a story on his theory of the Mayan history and their mysterious disappearance.
Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. He attended Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Lozano-Hemmer develops interative installations that also are influenced by architecture and performance art.
Vicente Rojo was born in Barcelona in 1932. In 1949, he moved to Mexico and gained his Mexican citizenship. He is a printmaker and a sculptor, working extensively as a graphic designer for many Mexican and Spanish publications.
A Guadalajara native, Soriano draws inspiration from popular and indigenous art, with influences of Cubism, Germain Expressionism, and Fauvism. Soriano now lives at the Mexican capital. He has worked with artists like Frida Kahlo.
Born in Mexico City in 1964, Ortiz-Torres was originally planning on playing professional baseball, but gave up his dream and attended the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City and later to CalArts in Valencia, Calif. He uses paintings, photographs, installations, and film to produce his artwork. Ortiz-Torres has shown his work in the MoMA.
Rafael Vargas-Suarez a.k.a. Vargas-Suarez Universal
Vargas-Suarez in an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Mexico City, he quickly moved to the US and lived in Houston, Texas. He studied art history and astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin and moved to N.Y. Vargas-Suarez is known for his large-scale wall drawings, paintings, and photographs.
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