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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Cisco JiménezInterconnected volcanoes, 2024Acrylic on panel (artist carved wood frame)29.5 x 23.6 x 3.1 in
75 x 60 x 8 cm -
Cisco JiménezPiramide con tornamesa, 2024Embroidery, crochet, and weaving on cotton fabric
In collaboration with Ana Dominguez from Cuentepec, Morelos, Mexico28 x 35 in
71.1 x 88.9 cm -
Cisco JiménezTocadiscos, 2023Clay with natural pigments. In collaboration with Carmen Camilo Ayala from San Agustín Oapan, Guerrero.8.6 x 7.9 x 7.9 in
22 x 20 x 20 cm -
Cisco JiménezRadiograbadora Horizontal, 2021Clay with natural pigments
In collaboration with Carmen Camilo Ayala from San Agustín Oapan, Guerrero.8.6 x 10 x 6 in
22 x 26 x 16 cm -
Cisco JiménezRadiograbadora Vertical, 2021Clay with natural pigments, in collaboration with Carmen Camilo Ayala from San Agustín Oapan, Guerrero.10 x 5.9 x 5.9 in
26 x 15 x 15 cm -
Cisco JiménezA Bailar, 2018Collage with drawing28.3 x 22.5 in
71.8 x 57.1 cm -
Cisco JiménezSound Dead Mask, 2018Collage and drawings28.3 x 22.5"
71.8 x 57.1 cm -
Cisco JiménezHand Deliver ASAP, 2016Collage and drawings19.75 x 25.5 in
50.2 x 64.8 cm -
Cisco JiménezQuetzalcoapunk, 2016Etching18 x 17.5 in
45.7 x 44.5 cmEdition of 40 -
Cisco JiménezTonayan, 2016Collage and drawings19.8 x 25.5"
50.2 x 64.8 cm -
Cisco JiménezStretch, 2015Collage and drawings25.5 x 19.6"
64.8 x 49.8 cm -
Cisco JiménezMexico 70, 2014-16Collage and drawings25.5 x 19.8 in
64.8 x 50.2 cm -
Cisco JiménezMaíz Transgenico, 2004Enamel on metal and framed watercolor23.6 x 23.6"
59.9 x 59.9 cm
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A Mexican Artist Is Ready to Be Discovered, Again
Ray Mark Rinaldi, The New York Times, May 24, 2022 -
El Mundo Abierto de Cisco Jiménez
Alejandro Sordo, Forbes México, January 2, 2019 -
Premian a ganadores de Bienal Rufino Tamayo [Winners of the Rufino Tamayo Biennial receive awards]
Lisbeth Mjia Reyes, El Imparcial Oaxaca, September 22, 2018 -
Convergence of Visual Dialogues
Marissa Del Toro, Latinx Spaces, June 28, 2018 -
Collaborative Work | Sounds from the Archeological Time Machine
Terremoto, June 15, 2018
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Cisco Jiménez: Paradojas en Frecuencia Modulada
September 10 - November 1, 2024 New York CityRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Cisco Jiménez: Paradojas en Frecuencia Modulada (Paradoxes in modulated frequency), a solo exhibition of works by Mexican artist Cisco Jiménez. Cisco Jiménez: Paradojas en...Read more -
McNay Print Fair
May 6 - 7, 2023 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is thrilled to participate in the 27th edition of the McNay Print Fair, the only major print fair in the Southwestern United States.Read more -
Alchemy: Works on Paper
February 22 - April 1, 2023 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Alchemy: Works on Paper. The exhibition will present works by Jesse Amado, Richard "Ricky" Armendariz, Cecilia Biagini, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Margaret Craig, Andres Ferrandis, Pedro Friedeberg, Cisco Jiménez, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Leigh Anne Lester, César A. Martínez, Kanako Namura, Lina Puerta, and Ethel Shipton. Ruiz-Healy Art is proud to be one of only three dealers in the state of Texas that holds membership to the International Fine Print Dealers Association, an organization that maintains the highest standards for works on paper.Read more -
Contemporary Latinx and Latin American Printmakers
September 28 - November 4, 2022 New York CityRuiz-Healy Art is thrilled to present Contemporary Latinx and Latin American Printmakers. The exhibition will present works by César A. Martínez, Juan de Dios Mora, Marta Sánchez, Richard Armendariz, Moses Ros, Pedro Friedeberg, Patssi Valdez, Johanna Calle, Liliana Porter, Michael Menchaca, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Amorales, Vicente Rojo, Cisco Jiménez, Rodolfo Morales, Dr. Lakra, Modesto Bernardo, Ethel Shipton, Alejandro Diaz, Celia Álvarez Muñoz, Roger Von Gunten, Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, Rodolfo Morales, and Carlos Rosales-Silva.Read more
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More Than Words: Text-Based Artworks II
March 25 - August 29, 2020 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents More Than Words: Text-Based Artworks II featuring works by Richard Armendariz, Nate Cassie, Andrés Ferrandis, Cisco Jímenez, Katie Pell, Ethel Shipton, and Gary Sweeney, on view through August 29, 2020.Read more -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
October 23 - 27, 2019 New York CityRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to announce the gallery's participation in the prestigious IFPDA Print Fair at the new location in the Javits Center. RHA represents an international roster of artists and places emphasis on a Latin American, borderland, and Texas discourse. Featuring artists Ricky Armendariz, Margarita Cabrera, Patssi Valdez, Pedro Friedeberg, Ethel Shipton, Nate Cassie, Andres Ferrandis, and Cisco Jimenez.Read more -
Cisco Jiménez: Sounds from the Archeological Time Machine
May 23 - June 30, 2018 San AntonioIn Sounds from the Archeological Time Machine, Cisco Jiménez presents a new body of mixed-media works that are filled with drawings referencing ancient Mesoamerican artifacts and items of urban culture such as boom boxes and record players.Read more -
Dreamers and Realists
June 23 - September 3, 2016 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Dreamers and Realists, a group exhibition featuring Jesse Amado, Andrés Ferrandis, Cisco Jímenez, Nicole Franchy, and guest artists Kaela Puente and Alejandro Augustine Padilla.Read more
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Why is the Sky Blue?
November 18, 2015 - February 13, 2016 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Why is the Sky Blue? A group exhibition with Jesse Amado, Laura Anderson Barbata, Cecilia Biagini, Nate Cassie, Aníbal Delgado, Hersúa, Cisco Jimenez, Magali Lara, Chuck Ramirez, Guillermo Santamarina, Hills Snyder, and Pilar Villela. Including works that date back to the 1970's, this exhibition uses abstract works to focus on issues over looked in the modern tradition of abstract art.Read more -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
November 4 - 8, 2015 New York CityRuiz-Healy Art participates in the prestigious IFPDA, International Fine Print Dealers Association. Artists selected for this year’s fair are: Laura Anderson Barbata, César A. Martínez, Ethel Shipton, Andrés Ferrandis, Francisco Toledo, Cisco Jiménez and Nate Cassie.Read more
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Cisco Jiménez: Anatómica I Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Authors: Tobias Ostrander Carla Stellweg Jimmie Durham Tobias Ostrander, 2021Hardcopy, 172 pagesRead more
Publisher: Saenger Editores
ISBN: 6079834596, 9786079834593 -
VOZ : Selections from the UTSA Collection, 2018
Essay by Arturo Infante Almeida 2018Hardcopy, 106 pagesRead more
Publisher: Centro de Artes
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Radiograbadoras y Otros Derivados I Museum of the City of Cuernavaca, Mexico
Essay by Hugo Juarez, et al Hugo Juarez et. al, 2017Hardcopy, 130 pagesRead more
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Radiograbadoras, balazos, un río y la sierra | Galería Thomas Flechel
Essay by Amaury Colmenares Amaury Colmenares, 2017 Read more -
Why is the Sky Blue? I Ruiz-Healy Art
Jesse Amado, Chuck Ramirez, Cecilia Biagini, Nate Cassie, Cisco Jiménez, Hills Snyder Essay by Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, 2015Paperback, 42 pagesRead more
Publisher: Ruiz-Healy Art
ISBN: 1364513900
Dimensions: 8 x 10 in -
Cisco Jiménez: Desastrerama I Centro Cultural Jardín Borda, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Essays by Franceso Pellizzi & Jose Springer Jose Manuel Springer, et al, 2015Hardcopy, 189 pagesRead more
Publisher: Gobierno del Estado de Morelos
ISBN: 978-607-9358-34-1