Remedios Varo was born in December 16, 1908 - October 8, 1963 was a surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War she flees to Paris where she was mainly prejudiced by the surrealist movement. She met in Barcelona the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret and became his wife. She was compulsory into banish from Paris during the Nazi profession of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941. She at first considered Mexico a temporary haven, but would remain in Latin America for the rest of her life.

In Mexico she met inhabitant artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. However, her strongest ties would be to other exiles and expatriates, and particularly her extraordinary friendship with the English painter Leonora Carrington. Her last major relationship would be with Walter Gruen, an Austrian who had endured concentration camps before escaping Europe. Gruen believed severely in Varo, and gave her the support that allowed her to fully concentrate on her painting.

After 1949 Varo developed into her mature and extraordinary style, which remains beautifully enigmatic and instantly recognizable. She often worked in oil on Masonite panels she ready herself. Although her colors have the blend resonance of the oil medium, her brushwork often concerned many fine strokes of paint laid closely together - a technique more reminiscent of egg tempera. She died at the height of her career.

Her work continues to achieve successful retrospectives at major sites in Mexico and the United States.

Manuel Rocha Iturbide was born in 1963 in Mexico City; he started musical studies when he was 13 years old. In 1983, after studying musical pedagogy in Lyon France for one year, he determined to start a career as composer at the “Escuela National de Musical” of the University of Mexico. The enormously academic and traditional studies in that institution led him to explore different creative ways beyond instrumental music and so he practiced photography at “Taller de los Lunes”, a workshop organized by Mexican digital photography pioneer Pedro Meyer.

In 1988 he started using video work and in 1989 he realized his first sound sculpture at the mild stone exhibition “14 artists around Joseph Beuyce” in Mexico City along with significant Mexican artists from his generation such as Gabriel Orozco. In 1989 Rocha Iturbide travels to USA to the University Mills College in order to pursue an MFA in electronic music. There, he composes “Frost Clear”, a piece for enlarged refrigerator, double bass and electronic sounds that has been played by him through the years in different important festivals such as the “San Francisco electronic Music Festival” in 2006. In 1991, Rocha Iturbide travels to France where he studies and works as a researcher at IRCAM, and where he peruses his doctoral thesis on grainy synthesis and Quantum Mechanics in relation to sound from 1992 to 1999.

In these years, Manuel Rocha Iturbide worked with Curtis Roads and Barry Truax, two of the most important pioneers on granular synthesis computer music techniques. In 1999 the president of the jury of his doctoral thesis defense was Jean Claude Risset (The name of his thesis was “The granular synthesis techniques”). The influence of this research can be seen in different electroacustic works of this composer: “Transiciones de Fase” for brass quintet and electronic sounds (1994), Moin MOR for electronic sounds (1995), SL-9 for electronic sounds (1994), etc. At his return to Mexico after 7 years abroad, Manuel Rocha Iturbide devoted himself to sound art, being one of its pioneers and biggest promoters.

Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican post minimalist artist. He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas between 1981 and 1984. He then sustained his education in Madrid at the Circulo de Bellas Artes between 1986 and 1987.

Exploring the use of video, drawings, and installations in addition to his photographs and sculptures, Orozco allows the audience’s imagination to explore the imaginative associations between oft-ignored objects in today’s world. His work permits a rarely allowed interface between the artwork and the audience.

For instance, visitors at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California could play a four person game of table tennis on Orozco’s Ping Pond Table (1998). The work’s center is a lily pond with four semi-circular ping pong table pieces set in a clover shape approximately it.

Fernando Ortega is an adult contemporary singer-songwriter in contemporary Christian music. He is noted for his interpretations of traditional hymns and songs, such as “Give Me Jesus”, “Be Thou My Vision”, and many others, but also for writing clear and accessible songs, such as “This Good Day”.

Fernando grew up in a village near the banks of the Rio Grande. His family lived in Chimayo, New Mexico for eight generations; his music is influenced by those roots.From all this heritage, from his classical training at University of New Mexico, and varied life experiences, this turned into a unique sound that embraces country, classical, Celtic, Latin American, world music, modern folk and rustic hymnody.

Rodolfo Morales (May 8, 1925 - Jan 30, 2001) was a surrealist Mexican painter.

Morales are best known for his brightly coloured surrealistic dream-like canvases and collages frequently featuring Mexican women in village settings.

He was famous for his restoration of historic buildings in Ocotlan, Mexico and together with Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo, helped make Oaxaca in Southern Mexico a centre for contemporary art and sightseeing. Up until his death in 2001, both he and Toledo had been regarded as Mexico’s best living artists for over a decade.

Oscar Gonzalez Loyo, born April 11th, 1959 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist mostly known for his establishment Karmatrón y Los Transformables and creator along with his father and wife, Susana Romero, of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio in 1994.

He is the son of Oscar González Guerrero, legendary Mexican comic book master.

As a child he was influenced by the work of Mexican comic book artists that frequented his home like Héctor Macedo, as well as from Walt Disney, Osamu Tezuka, Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson.

At age 14 he became a professional artist for Las Aventuras de Capulina.

Over the years, he has worked in titles like Las Aventuras de Cepillín, Las Aventuras de Parchís, Katy la Oruga, El Monje Loco, The Flintstones, The New Speed Racer, Tiny Toons, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons Comics and Bart Simpson Comics.

From 1996-2000 he was the Animation Director for Sesame Street Latin america.

In the year 2000, he became the first Mexican to win an Eisner Award at Comic-Con International for his job on Simpson’s Comics.

Gunther Gerzso Wendland (June 17, 1915 - April 21, 2000) was a Mexican artist and theater/film set and costume designer. Although comparatively unknown outside the art cognoscenti, is viewed by some critics as similar to Pablo Picasso and Joaquin Torres Garcia. He is “one of the best Latin American painters,” according to Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican author.

Born in Mexico City, Gerzso’s father, Oscar, was a watchmaker from Budapest, Hungary; his mother, Dore Wendland, a lead singer and a pianist from Berlin, Germany. His father died just six months after he was born. His mother then married another emigrant, the German owner of a well-liked jewelry store. He lost his business during the Mexican Revolution, and in 1922 the family moved to Europe.

In 1924 they returned to Mexico. After his mother divorced her second husband, during her subsequent financial uncertainty she decided to send Gunther, then 12, to live with her brother, Hans Wendland, an important art historian and dealer in Lugano, Switzerland. Wendland sold works by Rembrandt, Cézanne, and Titian, and Gerzso recalled paintings by Bonnard and Delacroix on the walls of his bedroom. Among the important visitors of the Wendland’s was Nando Tamberlani, an Italian stage set designer who became friends with Gerszo while living on the estate for a summer.

Covarrubias’s caricature of himself as an Olmec.Jose Miguel Covarrubias (November 22, 1904 - Feb 4, 1957) was a Mexican artist and caricaturist. His works and celebrity cartoons have been featured in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. The linear nature of his drawing style was highly prominent to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfeld.

Covarrubias also did some amazing illustrations for The Heritage Press including Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Green Mansions, and Pearl Buck’s All Men Are Brothers. These editions are very required after by collectors. He also worked as an illustrator for W.C. Handy’s publications.

Covarrubias is also well-known for his analysis of pre-Colombian art of Mesoamerica, mainly that of the Olmec culture. His analysis of iconography presented a strong case that the Olmec predated the Classic Era years before this was confirmed by archaeology.

Carlos Amorales (born 1970) is a Mexican artist who works and lives in Mexico City.

Amorales studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam between 1992 and 1995 and at the Rijksakademie in 1996.

Known for his flat, bold forms, Amorales works in a wide mixture of media, including video animation, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Images of his “liquid archive” - birds, spiders, trees, wolves, etc. - recur throught his work in blacks, reds, and grays. His previous works featured masked Mexican wrestlers performing in wrestling rings all over the world, including at the Tate Modern in London and the Pompidou Center in Paris. His most recent animation piece, Useless Wonder (2006) was shown at the Miami Basel art fair. Newly, Amorales has had solo exhibitions at the MALBA in Buenos Aires, the Milton Keynes Gallery in Milton Keynes, UK, Yvon Lambert Paris, and MUCA in Mexico City. The artist’s work is featured in many public and secretive collections, including the MoMA in New York, La Colección Jumex in Mexico City, the Cisneros Foundation Collection in New York, and the Margulies Collection in Miami.

Mauricio Toussaint (b. 1960 in Guadalajara, Mexico) is a famous Mexican modern artist. Of French and Mexican fall, Toussaint was involved in making art from a young age. Following his parents’ prospect to make a living, he enters the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara to get a degree in structural design (he graduated during 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree). During this time, he was confident by a professor from the near Visual Arts Department to make art on his own. Invited to work at the open class at the Centro de Arte Moderno, he made prints during 1982-83 and afterward, he board on a series of paintings. By the mid 1980s, he had fake relations with art experts from the center, and was soon asked to team up as a helper curator at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas—his career in architecture formally replaced with art.

In 1995 Toussaint came to the United States, tempted by friends in the music business, which confident him to join them in Miami. He has had numerous exhibits in dissimilar Mexican cities over and above other countries like Spain, France, Korea and the United Sates.