Born in 1970 in Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, he studied at the Tehuantepec visual arts workshop beginning in 1986. In 1990, he entered the fine arts school of the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca. In 2001, he opened the 910 printmaking workshop in Oaxaca, devoted mainly to lithography, where Francisco Toledo also worked. His work spans oil with earth pigments on linen, printmaking, watercolor, collage, bronze, and ceramics.
He has participated in more than fifty group shows in Mexico and held solo exhibitions in Paris, Milan, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, and Nagoya. He was also an artist in residence at Lafayette College. In 2020, the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños presented «El imperio de la mirada», featuring twenty years of his work.