The artist's print has played a major role in twentieth century Mexican art. The original print media are as often a first choice of expression for contemporary artists as they were for the artists of ... read more

For foreigners, the traditions and celebrations in Mexican homes and cemeteries during the Day of the Dead seem strange, if not incomprehensible. There is mourning and rejoicing; sadness and silliness ... read more

The center arch of the wall contains the Mexican eagle holding a serpent that showed the end of the Aztecs' migration. Included on the current Mexican flag, the eagle also represents a resurgent Mexico... read more

Muros, which means "walls" in Spanish, opened to the public in May of 2004. It is the only museum in Cuernavaca, Morelos originally designed to be a museum. The space is flexible with movable lighting,... read more

Some 30 years ago, a youthful 27-year-old acquired a piece of machinery by chance. Not knowing exactly what to do with it, or how it could somehow become a positive factor in his life, he took a gamble... read more

Within this section we highlight some of the best Mexico has to offer in the way of artesans, writers, painters, ceramicists, cultural examples, sculptors and more. If you like what you see, contact the artists and let them know you saw it on MexConnect. read more

For years, many people have been predicting the ultimate demise of the Huichol (wii-zaari-taari) as a linguistic and cultural entity. This has not happened. They were first contacted by the Spaniards around 1530. Although many live near main community and religious centres, such as San Andres, Santa Catarina, and San Sebastian, most live in hundreds of small ranchos scattered throughout the Sierras.

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  One of Mexico's foremost printmakers, Cuevas stands apart. His imagery is more in tune with the literary traditions of the Spanish language--without being illustration--than obedient to the reco... read more

An artist who needs no introduction. Tamayo shares the limelight together with Diego Rivera as Mexico's greatest painters of the twentieth century. But Tamayo, like Rivera, was also a prolific and de... read more

The legendary English born surrealist painter is internationally recognized for her unique imagery. However, this nonagenarian has yet to be recognized for her profound influence on the younger generat... read more

Photo by Bob Schalkwijk His visual roots firmly planted in the graphic essence that marked the early part of this century, Anguiano's traditional figurative imagery has grown to embrace vivid colo... read more

  Castañeda is renowned for his "inspirationalist" allegories that feature his own bearded "alter ego". He renders his images with "Old Master" pictorial quality. An optimistic spirituality radi... read more

  This trickster - satirist from Guadalajara often begins with classical Mexican forms, themes and motifs, and then corrupts them, so to speak, by bombarding them with foreign elements. Colunga re... read more

Corzas' imagery is of literary origin. Erudition rendered through virtuoso inarticulation. Cynosure yet restless, his imagery casts a benumbing yet a clarifying effect upon our perception. Ever-present... read more

A veteran of the "Oaxacan School" that is rapidly receiving worldwide recognition, Javier has developed his own personal and unmistakable iconography. Movement is a principle and continuous force that... read more

  Minerva balances multiple fields of geometric designs, rectangular spirals, parallel zigzags and represents indoor-outdoor dwellings on her primary design field. Within these major areas Minerva... read more

  Another Tapatío artist (from Guadalajara), Martín del Campo is a major exponent of Magic Realism. A prolific and versatile artist whose media span the gamut from painting to silver casting, Ma... read more

Lucía Maya is Mexico's graphic artist par excellence. The pencil is her prime creative tool. Limiting herself only to the lithographic grease pencil, this Tapatía artist syncopates the sweeping ran... read more

The internationally renown Nicaraguan-born painter is a world master whose work continuously grows. His intricate technical achievements have led to worlds of imagery never before trespassed. Morales delved into the secrets of the lithographic stone with no less audacity, determination and understanding than he puts into oil painting.

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Photo by Andrew Vlady One of the pioneer artists, a precursor to the phenomenal explosion of creativity from Oaxaca. Living and working for many years in Paris, Nieto's works stand as a testimony t... read more

The 1998 recipient of Cuba's National Award for the Fine Arts, Sosabravo is the Godfather of the graphic satire that far outreaches contemporary Cuban art; his influence is firmly set in the Isle of the Manhattos via the subsequent generations of Cuban as well as Puerto Rican and Dominican artists.

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Considered overwhelmingly to be Mexico's greatest living artist, Toledo is primarily a printmaker. Of all the works in this exposition, Toledo's are the most difficult to classify. Each image he unde... read more

A restless innovator, his penetration of lithographic and coloristic possibilities are at once the means and allegory for his bold and unabashed explorations into the lights and shadows of human nature... read more

The Master. Francisco Zúñiga died on August 9, 1998; one week after the Kyron exhibition was inaugurated on the Internet. In his memory Andrew Vlady would like to include the final paragraph from ... read more

The authenticity of Huichol art on the market today becomes of some importance when called into question by no less an authority on the Indians of Mexico than the famous Mexican historian and anthropologist Fernando Benítez, who once described the popular Huichol yarn paintings as "...a falsification and an industry." read more