Cisco Jiménez Mexican, b. 1969

Before studying with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League, New York City, Cisco Jiménez attended the Instituto Regional de Bellas Artes and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México City. Jiménez’s oeuvre comprises various mediums that expose Mexico’s concerns about the social and political environment.  Jimenez’s mixed-media works are filled with drawings referencing ancient Mesoamerican artifacts and items of urban culture, such as boomboxes and record players. The artist synthesizes these cultural references using everyday detritus, creating a pseudo-archaeological account of the products, food, and materials we consume daily. “I consider myself a kind of postmodern Posada. I think that a good artist and a smart artist should consider the good things that he can do, or he can express. Talent is only half of it. There is another part, a dark side, an awareness of anxieties and obsessions.” – Cisco Jiménez

Jiménez has exhibited widely, including The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS; Museo Amparo, Puebla, MX; Art Basel-Hong Kong and the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). In 2001, Jimmie Durham invited Jimenez to collaborate at the 49th Venice Biennale. Recently, Jimenez exhibited in two notable solo exhibitions, in 2017, titled Radiograbadoras y Otros Derivados, at the Museo De La Ciudad De Cuernavaca, Mexico, and in 2021, the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, exhibited the solo show Anatomical, curated by Tobias Ostrader. He has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Glasstire. Jiménez also participated in the 1995 Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX. 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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