Mexico & Central America Archives

Marco Augusto Quiroa

Guatemalan painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer. Quiroa studied in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Guatemala City between 1953 and 1960

José Luis Álvarez

José Luis Álvarez was considered the last master of light. Alvarez has stood out for shading the luminous contrast of the shadows, creating optical

Elmar (Rene) Rojas

Elmar (Rene)Rojas mainly worked in watercolors and oils in a style at once vigorous and very delicate, with a fine sense of color, touching on important contemporary

Luis Diaz

He worked in various media, favoring new materials and bold geometric forms. Born in Guatemala City on December 5, 1939, painter, sculptor

Alejandro A Rochi

Alejandro was a classic painter of living flowers, children, patios, gardens, seascapes, and landscapes. He was born in Nicaragua and obtained a gold

Benjamín Cañas

The Salvadoran painter Benjamín Cañas is an internationally recognized artist for using the neo-figurative technique and the strategies of magical

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