STUDIES

1992-1996
Bachelor of Visual Arts
National School of Plastic Arts, UNAM.

1995
Course "Art and Nature", Master Nils-Udo Image Center. Mexico, DF

1987-1989
School of Ceramics and Porcelain Toluca, Edo. Mexico (Mokichi Okada Association)

EXHIBITIONS

2011
Flash Jumex Collection, Mexico, DF
Shadow of the water, Metropolitan Gallery, Mexico City
There are no easy solutions ... Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City
Ethra Gallery, Mexico, DF
Interconnects, FEMSA Collection, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa, Veracruz
Today Art Gallery, Mexico, DF

2010
Journeys, landscape and memory, Contemporary Art at the FEMSA Collection, Centro Cultural Jaime
Sabines, Tuxtla Gutierrez., Chiapas and Tabasco Planetary 2000 Villahermosa, Tabasco
Common affection / Genres in flux, University Museum Poplar, UNAM, Mexico City
15 Years, Payment in Kind Collection, Museum of the Old Archbishop's Palace, Mexico City

2009
20, FONCA 1989/2009, Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City
Homemade: an approach to object-based practices in contemporary Mexican art
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, DF
Meeting Point, Monogram, Monogram Publications, Mexico City
Lipstick Traces, The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States
Purpose and Narration, FEMSA Collection, Arocena Museum, Torreon, Coahuila

2008
Ethra Gallery, Mexico, DF
Trends, Payment in Kind program, SHCP, Archbishop's Palace
Meetings of Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Institute for Biomedical Research, UNAM

2006
Metamorphosis, Spain Cultural Center, Mexico City

2004
Sculptural Presence: Works from the collection of payment in kind SHCP, Headquarters of Art, Pachuca, Hidalgo

2003
Mexico Illuminated Freedman Gallery, Albright Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania
Winners Biennial Monterrey FEMSA, Amparo Museum, Puebla, Puebla
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zapopan, Jalisco
Fission / Fusion, House of Mexico, Washington, DC

2002
Awakenings, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States
Clouds and rain Miami-Basel (project room), Art 3 Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States
Trends, Bancomer Salon, Museum of the City, Querétaro. Qro.
Show, Center for the Arts, Monterrey, N.L.
Rotation XV Muca-Rome, Mexico, DF
Generation Y, Z, Diaz Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2001
A reading of the FEMSA Collection, National Museum of Art, Mexico City
Trends, Bancomer Salon, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
Fifth Biennial Monterrey, Center for the Arts, Monterrey, NL
26-36: Young Contemporary Proposals, Old Archbishop's Palace, SHCP , DF
Collection Lothar Müller, Extemplo of St. Augustine, Zacatecas, Zacatecas

2000
Art Chicago 2000, Gallery of Mexican Art, Chicago Art Fair, United States.
Grand Prix Omnilife, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

1999
Mexican Seven Sculptors, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, United States.
Territories Open: Seven Sculptors Mexicans in this century, CECUT, Tijuana, BC
Grand Prix Omnilife, Guadalajara, Jalisco

1998
Hiper, Museo Carrillo Gil. Mexico, D. F.
Second Biennial of Ceramics in Monterrey. Alfa Cultural Center. Monterrey, Mexico
Sculpture Biennial Maison Hamel-Bruneau. Quebec, Canada.

1997
Third Biena1 Monterrey. Museum of Monterrey. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
First National Salon of Visual Arts Sec. Dimensional Biennial, National Arts Centre. Mexico, D. F.

EXHIBITIONS

2011
Rain in the mountains of the north, Drexel Projects, Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

2010
Two pearls, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico, DF
Dialogue: IIrene Dubrovsky and Mary Joseph of the Macorra. White Box Gallery, Mexico, DF

2009
On the airwaves. Drexel Projects, Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon.
Untitled. White Box Gallery, Mexico, DF
Installation April 3. Gallery 115, Project-room, University of Central Missouri, United States

2007
Clouds and rain / water towers, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas., Mexico

2006
To the Northern Interiors, Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan
Geographies Body, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
Two sections / One vision, Tomas Chavez Morado Gallery, University of Guanajuato

2005
To the Northern Interiors, Thinking Hands Gallery (Factory 789), Beijing, China
Clouds and rain / water towers, Gallery of Mexican Art, Mexico City
To the Northern Interiors, Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim, New Zealand and Southland
Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill, New Zealand

2004
To the Northern Interiors, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Australia and
High Court, Canberra, Australia

2003
Status change: project for public spaces, Mexico City, Mexico City

2001
Geographies inner north, Gallery of Mexican Art, Mexico City
Dynamis. Installation. Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato.
Dynamis. Installation. University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato

2000
Wheels within wheels. Installation. The Other Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada

1999
Change of State. Installation. Plaza de Santo Domingo, Centro Historico, Mexico, D. F.

1998
Transits, Museum of Monterrey. N.L. Monterrey, Mexico

1997
Monstera Delicious: Taxonomy on a Transformation. Installation. Gallery Luis Nishizawa. National School of Fine Arts, Mexico, D. F.

AWARDS:

2011
Member of the National System of Creators of Art, Visual Arts, FONCA, issue 2011

2009
Guardian of Young Artists in the Discipline of Sculpture, FONCA, 2010-2011

2008
Member of the National System of Creators of Art, Visual Arts, FONCA, emission

2007
Supporting the project of clouds and rain / water towers, BBV-Bancomer Fund in Support of Artistic Residencies Arts 2007 Mexico-Canada (FONCA-Center for the Arts in Banff), Alberta, Canada

2006
Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, October 2006

2006
Artist invited to the workshop of potter Ryoji Koie, Gifu, Japan (April-May)

2004
Support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the project roam north of the geographies inside (Australia: Melbourne and Canberra, New Zealand: Invercargill and Blenheim, Beijing, China, and Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan)

2003
Project Support Change of State, BBV-Bancomer Fund to Support the Arts

2002
Art Residency at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States.

2000
Artistic Residencies Mexico-Canada (FONCA-Center for the Arts Banff), Alberta, Canada.

1999
Honorable Mention, Grand Prix Omnilife, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

1998
Grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) to Young Artists

1997
Acquisition Award in Sculpture. Third Biennial of Monterrey. N.L. Monterrey, Mexico

1994
Diploma for Academic Excellence, UNAM
1990 Artist invited by Elaine Scheer, Art Department, University of Wisconsin

1989
Travel Grant for Young Artists of Mexico, United States International Agency (USIA)

WORK IN COLLECTIONS:

Kata physin, 1997, Lothar Muller Collection, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Sensibilia hexagonal, 1996, FEMSA Collection, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (Award of acquisition)
Wheels within wheels, 1997 Heritage Collection and Heap, Mexico City (Grant)
Monstera deliciosa, 1997 Private Collection
Lavania 1, 1999 Collection The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States
Lavania 2, 1999 Collection The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States
North Interior, 2001, Collection The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States (Grant)
Sacred, 2000 Private Collection
Pneumatikos Folio, 1999, Private Collection
Flower, 1999, Private Collection
Entrance to the Top 1, 1999, Private Collection
Shirakawa, 2000, Collection of Mexican Art Gallery
Untitled (organs), 2000, Private Collection
Ola, 2003-2004, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (grant)
Branches, 2008-2009, FEMSA Collection
Streets, 2007, Heritage Museum Historic and Artistic Foreign Ministry, Foreign Ministry, Mexico City
Streets, 2007, Private Collection
Tillandsia, 2007, Private Collection
Flower, 2009-2010, Sculpture Space Desert municipality of Vanegas, SLP

WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES:

2011
Panel discussion Monika Gora, Gunilla Bandolin and Yolanda Gutierrez. Intl Festival Cervantino

2011
Workshop "Awareness Space" Workshop Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca

2010
Course "Ceramics" course at the workshop of the artist
Workshop on "The materials and the poetic image", Universidad Michoacana
Conference: "Processes of transformation of the inner north geographies
Clouds and rain / water towers "Teatro José Rubén Romero, Universidad Michoacana

2009
Workshop production. University of Central Missouri, Department of Art
Conference, University of Central Missouri, Department of Art

2007
"The artist and the city," one day workshop for children. Museum of Modern Art, DF

2007
Pottery studio. Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas, Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

2006
Conference. Tokyo Wonder Site. Tokyo, Japan
2004
Conference. Southland Museum. Invercargill, New Zealand

2003
Conference Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States

2002
Conference at The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States

2000
Banff Centre, Canada (talk)

1996
Course of a year of ceramic materials (three hours per week) from 1996 to 1997

1991
Instructor around University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall Semester)

1991
Ceramics Instructor "Horizons: the New England Crafts Program", Massachusetts

1990
Ceramics Instructor "Horizons: the New England Crafts Program", Massachusetts

1989
Ceramic Workshop in University Heights High School, New York, United States