Gonzalo García

La danza de los inocentes

2025

Gonzalo studied Visual Arts at the Instituto Allende University, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. His most recent work addresses different social and historical issues in Mexico based on novels written in the 40s and movies from the 70s and 80s of our country. In his career, he has had seven individual exhibitions in Mexico and more than 15 collective exhibitions including various museums in Querétaro, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Sweden, Spain, and recently in New York and California, in the US. In 2013 he had a residency at the Swedish Watercolor Museum, near the city of Gothenburg, and obtained the FONCA "Young Creators" Scholarship for the first time, in the discipline of painting. Likewise, he has been selected in several biennials throughout his career, such as the last XVII Rufino Tamayo Biennial of 2016-2017 and the José y Tomás Chávez Morado Biennial of 2018, where he obtained an honorable mention, as well as the last VI Pedro Coronel Biennial. from Zacatecas. In 2018 he obtained the FONCA "Young Creators" Scholarship for the second time in the discipline of painting. In that same year, he was selected in the "Julio Castillo" Biennial of painting in the city of Querétaro, exhibited at the Libertad Gallery, as well as in a pop-up show of contemporary Mexican painting in Los Angeles, California, with the Emilia Cohen Gallery. In 2019 he participated in several group exhibitions in Edo. from Mexico and CDMX, such as the collective painting exhibition "New Skin for an old ceremony" at the Karen Huber Gallery, and the FAIN Fair (1st Edition). Last year he had his seventh individual exhibition at the Arte Actual Mexicano Gallery, in Mty, N.L., entitled "Fires" and had the support of the FONCA Young Creators Scholarship for the third time, in the discipline of painting, in addition to receiving Mention honorary in the 4th Edition of the Lumen Biennial, "Panorama", still exhibited at the beginning of 2022 at the Museum of the City of Mexico City. Finally, in August of this year, he had his seventh individual exhibition at Galería Loot, in Col. Roma in Mexico City.