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Moises Becerra Alvarado

Honduran artist who has received international recognition for his paintings, graduated with honors from the National School of Fine Studies at the

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Mexican painter, one of the trio of muralists (with Orozco and Rivera) who dominated 20th-century Mexican art. He was born in Chihuahua, the son of

Gerardo Murillo

Mexican painter and art administrator. He was an ardent nationalist and a pioneer of the 20th-century renaissance of his county’s art—chapter 1 of MacKinley

Mónica Mayer

Mónica Mayer is a feminist Mexican artist, activist and art critic whose work includes performance, digital graphics, drawing, photography, and art

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was Hispano-Indian on her mother’s side and German on her father’s. She met Diego Rivera when he was painting a mural at the Escuela

Richard Prince

American artist, born in Panama. His practice has been associated with appropriation. He came to attention in the early 1980s with photographs blown up

Gabriel Orozco

Mexican artist, born in Jalaga. His work combines elements of performance, sculpture, drawing, and installation, and is rooted in paradox, games play,

Stefan Brüggemann

Stefan Brüggemann is a Mexican artist working in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Examples of Brüggemann’s conceptual work are his Puddle Paintings

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968, Mexico City) is a visual artist. He is best known for his work with found objects, and particularly his ongoing “Autoconstrucción”

Carlos Mérida

Guatemalan painter, active mainly in Mexico. In 1910–14 he studied in Paris under van Dongen, meeting Modigliani, Picasso, and other members of the avant-