Cisco Jiménez Mexican, b. 1969

B. Cuernavaca, Morelos, 1969

Before studying with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League, New York, Cisco Jiménez attended the Instituto Regional de Bellas Artes and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México City. In 2001, Jimmie Durham invited Jimenez to collaborate at the 49th Venice Biennale. His work has been the subject of over fifteen solo museum exhibitions. The last one in 2022 at the Amparo Museum, Puebla, México, was curated by Tobias Ostrander with an accompanying publication.

Jiménez’s oeuvre consists of various mediums that expose Mexico’s social and political environment concerns. The vibrant colors, rich detail, and often the use of text, create a satiric voice that demands attention. Cisco utilizes witty humor and a broad color palette to balance the visual action of political criticism and social malevolence that plagues the Americas. And in the tradition of Mexican popular art, he uses the word as an educational, political, religious, or commercial element in his works, creating his icons and naming his creations with humorous neologisms. Humor and paradox are constant in Latin American life, as in the case of Mexico. With spirit comes the political criticism and social resentment that become the binding element in Jimenez's practice.

A curated solo exhibition, by Tobias Ostrander, was held in 2022 at the Amparo Museum, Puebla, México with an accompanying publication. Jiménez has exhibited widely, including, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Art Basel-Hong Kong; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS, Museo Amparo, Puebla, MX and the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC).

His work can be found in the permanent collections of the British Museum, London, England; the Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection, Mexico; The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Art Collection; the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico; the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico; the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA; the USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the DeYoung Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, among others.

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