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 Alfredo Castaneda (Mexican- 1938-2010)
He was born in Mexico City in 1938. He received a degree in architecture from the University of Mexico in 1964 and in 1969 he had his first one-man show at the Galería de Arte Mexicano, the gallery which represents him worldwide outside of the U.S. His surrealist imagery intrigues viewers and his works are included in private collections in Mexico and Latin America, the United States, Europe and Japan.
In 1983 he had his first individual show in the United States at Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art and has been represented by MAM/FA in the U.S. since then. A retrospective of his work was held at the Monterrey (Mexico) Museum in 1990 and a monograph celebrating twenty years of work was published in the same year. Since then he has had a number of exhibitions in the U.S. and Latin America which are detailed below.
Castañeda lives in Madrid, where he and his family own and run a highly successful Mexican restaurant.
Solo Exhibitions:
1999 Nuestro yo y mi nosotros (Our I and My We), Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York
1997 En busca del corazón (In Search of the Heart), Galería GAM, Mexico City
1997 ARCO ’97, Galería GAM, Madrid, Spain
1996 Dibujos Recientes (Recent Drawings), El Guardián de lo Pequeño, Madrid, Spain
1996 Retrospective, 1969-1996, Instituto de Mexico, Madrid, Spain
1996 ARCO ’96, Galería GAM, Madrid, Spain
1996 El propio abismo (His Own Abyss), Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, Art Miami 96, Miami, Florida
1995 El secreto del secreto (The Secret of the Secret), Galería de Arte Mexicano, ARCO 95, Madrid, Spain
1994 La busqueda (The Search), Galería Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador
1993 Los pasos comunicantes, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York
1993 Los pasos comunicantes (The Communicating Steps), Galería de Arte Mexicano and Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, ARCO 93, Madrid, Spain
1992 En cierto sentido (In a Certain Sense), Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
1990 Que veinte años no son nada… (Twenty Years is Nothing…), Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
1989 From the Circular Eden (Remembrances), Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York
1986 ¡Si tú y yo lo supiéramo! (If You and I Only Knew It!), Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York
1984 Introducción a la Guerra Santa (Introduction to the Holy War), Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
1983 Private Heavens, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York
1982 Ilustraciones, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
1980 Acercamientos, Colegio de México, Mexico, D.F.
1978 Días de visita (Visiting Days), Promoción de las Artes A.C., Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
1978 Del purgatorio: Recordatorios, visiones y testimonios (From Purgatory: Reminders, Visions and Testmonies), Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
1976 Del Común de los Santos (On the Commonness of Saints), Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
1975 De Esta y de la Otra Orilla (Of This Shore and That), Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
1973 Oraciones, retratos y adivinanzas (Prayers, Portraits and Puzzles), Centro Universitario Cultural, Mexico, D.F.
1972 Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, D.F.
1971 Lambert Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1971 Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
1969 Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F.
Source:
Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art Gallery New York
Added note:
The artist died Dec, 2010 in Madrid Spain due to complications from pneumonia.
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