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Daniel Lezama (Mexico City, 1968). He graduated from the National School of Plastic Arts (Faculty of Arts and Design) of the UNAM. In 2001 he won the Acquisition Award of the X Tamayo Biennial. He has been a recipient of support from FONCA and CONACULTA many times and currently holds the SNCA scholarship for the third time. In 2008 he exhibited the retrospective La Madre Pródiga, at the Museum of Mexico City, published a large-scale monograph of his work in Hilario Galguera Ediciones. In 2011 he presented Cartas de Viaje in the Gallery Hilario Galguera, host of the publication of the book Viajeros, Editorial Jovis Art, Germany. To date he has participated in more than a hundred exhibitions, including private and collective exhibitions, including: Grandes Maestros of the 20th Century, the MARCO Museum, the 2nd Beijing Biennial; El Mito de Dos Volcanes, at the Palace of Fine Arts, Imperio, at the Spinnerei in Leipzig, Germany; Imagenes de la Patria, in the MUNAL and the MUNE; Alimentado el planeta / Energía para la vida in the Mexico Pavilion at EXPO Milano 2015; and the X Mercosul Biennial. His work is part of numerous public and private collections in Mexico and abroad, among which stand out: the MAM collection of the INBA, La Murderme Collection in London, The Museum of the Neighborhood in New York, the Art Museum of Dallas, and the Essl Sammlung. Likewise, he has dabbled in the mexican artistic medium as opinion leader, jury, curator and tutor of young generations of plastic artists.
Daniel Lezama
EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES (SELECCIÓN)
2016
Monitor, Caja Real, San Luis Potosí.
Peregrinaciones, Gacx, Xalapa.
Dispositivos, Fundación de Artistas, Merida.
2015
Monotipos, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City.
2014
Tamoanchan, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City.
2011
Cartas de viaje, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico City.
2008
La madre pródiga, Museum of the City, Ciudad de México y MAZ, Zapopan.
2006
La gran noche mexicana, OMR Gallery, Mexico City.
Teatro nacional, Jesus Drexel Gallery, Monterrey.
2003
Días de guardar, Casa Clavijero, Guadalajara.
2002
Sainetes, Roebling Hall Gallery, New York.
Una visita al valle, OMR Gallery, Ciudad de México.
La clase de historia, Jesús Drexel Gallery, Monterrey.
2001
Historias compartidas, Museum of Modern Art, Cd. Juarez (itinerante).
2000
El nacimiento del amor, Museum of the City of Queretaro (itinerante).
Obra reciente, Nina Menocal gallery, Mexico City.
EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS (SELECCIÓN)
2015
X Bienal Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Pabellón México, Exposición Universal de Milan, Italy.
2014
“Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Chuck Connally, Julio Galan, Daniel Lezama – in the Pellizzi family collections”, MANA Contemporary, New Jersey, E.U. (itinerante)
Messico Circa 2000 Scuderie del Castello de Miramare, Trieste, Italy.
2013
Pulso Alterado. Intensidades en la Colección del MUAC y sus Colecciones Asociadas, MUAC, Mexico City.
Fronteritat: Migración, Territorios y Nomadismo Artístico. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
2012
Positions, Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany.
Autorretratos, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City.
2011
Dialécticas del paisaje urbano,Diego Rivera Mural Museum, Mexico City.
2010
Imágenes de la patria, MUNAL, Ciudad de México y MUNE, Monterrey.
Carne, Ex Arzobispado SHCP Museum, Mexico City.
Libertad, Ex Arzobispado SHCP Museum, Mexico City.
2009
Imperium, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.
2008
La llegada de los bárbaros, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Leipzig.
Like a Dog Coming Out of a Reservoir, Charro Negro Gallery, Guadalajara.
2005
II Bienal de Beijing, Beijing, China.