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Víctor Sánchez Villarreal (CDMX, 1979) studied a degree in Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM, specializing in painting. He completed his academic training by taking extracurricular seminars with Maestro Ignacio Salazar, Dr. Blanca Gutiérrez Galindo and Dr. Daniel Montero. His work is not understood as a continuous development, but is organized into very different projects, the constant being the investigation of the particularities that distinguish the pictorial image from other images and other systems of representation.
Each project has concluded in an individual exhibition:
+ Et Incarnatus is at the Academy of San Carlos in 2013
+ Inventario at Galería Medellín 174 in 2012 and, expanded, at Drexel Galería in 2019
+ Enormes Minucias at eMe Art Space in 2015.
His most recent project, titled Ding an sich, ended with the exhibition Elusive Objects at Drexel Gallery in October 2021.
His work has been selected in national competitions such as:
+ Bienal Rufino Tamayo
+ Bienal Atanasio Monroy
+ Muestra Iberoamericana de Arte Miniatura y Pequeño Formato
+ Bienal Pedro Coronel, la Bienal de Artes Visuales Yucatán
+ Bienal Alfredo Zalce
He has participated in various group exhibitions both nationally and abroad such as:
Bioceno (curatorship by Jeannette Betancourt, Museo de la Cancillería, CDMX, 2020)
Esto es ahora (Morton Subastas, 2020)
La naturaleza de El Bosco a quinientos años de su muerte, (collective project of Manuel Marín, Fundación Sebastián, CDMX, 2016)
The Future is Unwritten, (curatorship and project by Ariadna Ramonetti, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venecia, Italia, 2015)
JAPOnice (Eme Espacio de Arte, México, D.F. 2015)
Suprema felicidad (curatorship by Brenda Caro Cocotle, Casa del Lago, México, D.F., 2014)
Re-Cover (proyecto de Omar Barquet, Casa del Lago, México, D.F., 2012)
Pintura y punto (Fundación Sebastián, México, D.F., 2011)
Imágenes de la Pasión (curatorship by Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Emergencia! (Galería Naxica, Ciudad de México, 2007)
La Voluntad Radical (Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, 2005)
In 2018 he entered the National System of Art Creators (FONCA), having previously been a scholarship recipient from the State Fund for Culture and the Arts of the State of Mexico in 2009 in the Young Creators modality. In parallel to his pictorial work, he has developed the photographic project Postcards of the Infraordinary, which received an honorable mention in the Palimpsesto Ciudad Borrada call (Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM) and which will be published by the German magazine INMEX during the course of the year. 2022.
His experience as a selection jury includes:
+ Programa Jóvenes Creadores en la disciplina de dibujo (FONCA, Secretaría de Cultura 2019)
+ Programa Fomento y coinversiones culturales en la categoría de Artes Visuales y Diseño (FONCA, Secretaría de Cultura, 2018)
+ Programa de residencias artísticas del Museo Leonora Carrigton (San Luis Potosí, 2018)
In 2002 he collaborated in the creation of Wall Drawing #994 (Wall Drawing #994) by the North American artist Sol Lewitt at the Siqueiros Public Art Room in Mexico City. His work is part of the collections of the Sebastián A.C. Foundation. and the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerci.
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