Alberto Oderiz (Navarre, 1983) albertoderiz.com @alberto_oderiz

Studied Architecture at ETSA in Barcelona and a Master’s degree at the UNAM. He’s been living in and 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) borjacolom.com @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 , 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) arte.celinemaestroni.com @celinemaestroni_art

Daughter of French people born in Malaga, which soon moved to 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 , 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) hectordeanda.net @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) irenezundel.com @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) isaurohuizar.com @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 , Ireland, , 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, and Monterrey. His work is inspired by daily life and his daily routine. Through - 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 - 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, , 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) marcelalobo.info @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) maribelportela.com @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) palomatorres.com @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, , 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 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) salvadorsantos.com @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, , , 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