Mexico City. 1968

He is a visual artist graduated from the National School of Plastic Arts, now the Faculty of Arts and Design, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. Throughout his professional career, he has explored with great creative capacity different artistic fields that cover many disciplines, seeking convergence and the generation of new ways of creating contemporary works of art. Since the mid-eighties, he has participated in various group and individual exhibitions in museums and galleries in Mexico and abroad in countries such as Italy, England, France, Poland, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, the United States, South Africa and others.

One of the important references in Manolo Cocho's plastic work is the variety of techniques he uses: acrylic, oil or watercolor, materials such as wood, metal, ceramics, stone and resources such as installation, photography, video, performance, 3D animation, sound art and in general the digital resources of the 21st century.

In Mexico, his work has been integrated into private and public collections, highlighting: the Alfredo Zalce Museum of Contemporary Art in Morelia, Michoacán; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Nuevo León MARCO, in the Museum of the Archbishopric of Mexico City, SAT, the UNIVERSUM Museum and the Museum of Light at UNAM, among others. He has also obtained important recognitions and scholarships for the realization of artistic projects, among which are: Member of the National System of Art Creators, FONCA, Mexico (2013); Creators with Careers, FECA, San Luis Potosí (2011); Visiting Artists, British Council, England (2002) and Young Creators, FONCA (1994).

Manolo Cocho comes from a family of physicists - mathematicians and has been in contact with science all his life, since the 90s he has studied the advances of what was the background of the now called complexity sciences; fractals, Chaos theory, complex systems, network theory, criticality and phase transitions, nonlinearity, etc., etc. His work has always been linked to the visions and advances of knowledge in this field.

Currently, he alternates his residence between the Potrero community in San Luis Potosí, Huitzilac in Morelos, Mexico City and Trieste in Italy. She develops as an artist in parallel in Mexico, Italy, Switzerland and Austria.