ORÍGENES

  I was born on March 4, 1975, in the comisaría of Dzununcán, Municipality of Mérida, Yucatán. My interest in art began at the age of seven when I saw my brother drawing masks and wrestling characters. In high school, I would do my drawings as projects, and the teachers would confiscate my work to put it up in the classroom of the laboratory. My brother and I got a bit more into painting, making banners for the church and some stores in the village, and we always had the desire to study painting.

I took an Art History course with CONACULTA, and in the same year, I also took an anatomy course at the Faculty of Architecture and other painting workshops with teachers who taught courses in the city of Mérida. In 2004, Maestro Víctor Argáez came to the village with his art project in the village looking for students to open a workshop in the community,without thinking twice, my brother and I enrolled, and we held our first exhibition at the Centro Cultural Olimpo the following year. However, I was the only one who could continue with art, from that day, my training as a visual artist began and in 2005 more workshops were opened in other villages and in the city, where I continue as an instructor to this day.

In 2007, the group Círculo Verde was created of painters from the Mayan villages. As a collective, we held a large series of exhibitions in galleries, museums, hotels, restaurants, and universities in the city of Mérida, as well as in other municipalities of our State of Yucatán, such as Buctzotz, Hunucmá, Izamal, Telchac, to name a few. The following year, I participated in a cultural exchange with the theme of the Popol Vuh in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, and throughout the Yucatán Peninsula.