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ROCÍO GONZÁLEZ PÁEZ

TOLUCA, MEXICO

Tél. : (52+1) 722 253 7916

Email : rociogpaez@gmail.com

FB : www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010594508739

 

  

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Born in México City she studies architecture, career she forsakes on behalf of the painting brushes she would never let go.

Starts formal artistic education in the National School of Plastic Arts in Mexico City; attends classes in the Museum-Studio of Mexican Watercolor Painting where she is tutored by the great mexican watercolor painter Alfredo Guati Rojo. She is also a disciple of Raul Anguiano and later an attendee of the great master Luis Nishizawa, who inherited ancient techniques from japanese as well as Mexican painting traditions.

She makes studies in viceregal iconography with famous anthropologist and author Mariano Monterroso, visiting the most important temples, sites and collections of religious art from 16^th to 19^th centuries  and she developes a keen sight and appreciation for colonial art and semiology. Currently she attends a seminar in art history at the MUNAL, National Museum of Art.

Besides her career as a painter, she has done aesthetic and historic investigations, works as a curator and museographer for the University of Mexico State as well as for other institutions.

 

 

ARTISTIC APPROACH

 

ROCÍO G. PÁEZ is a visual artist committed to her message. Her symbolic paintings are meaningful and maintain a very intimate dialog with the observer. Strong art conveying strong words.

Her aesthetic universe unfolds in her struggle for a generation free from the burden of gender inequality, the search for harmonic relationships based on mutual respect and the acknowledgement of differences, desires and asymmetries on which women from all over the world have to survive every day.

The creative act is for Rocío G. Páez a quest against indifference, which is yet another form of violence.

She makes studies in viceregal iconography with famous anthropologist and author Mariano Monterroso, visiting the most important temples, sites and collections of religious art from 16^th to 19^th centuries  and she developes a keen sight and appreciation for colonial art and semiology. Currently she attends a seminar in art history at the MUNAL, National Museum of Art.

Besides her career as a painter, she has done aesthetic and historic investigations, works as a curator and museographer for the University of Mexico State as well as for other institutions.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

Rocío G. Páez has been very active in personal and collective shows since the early 90’s and her work has been featured in many exhibitions among which we can highlight:

 

Annual Hall of Watercolorists at the National Watercolor Museum

 

Biennial at the Popular Cultures Museum

 

Encounter of Two Worlds, House of the Poets Cultural Center

 

Political Sciences Faculty, UAEM

 

Modern Art Museum CCM

 

José María Velasco Museum International Women’s Day

 

Centro Cultural Mexiquense Art Fair

 

Eclipse Gallery Detroit, MI, USA

 

2018 and 2019  Da Vinci Art Festival at Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, CDMX

 

Art World Experience, Naval Station, Salerno, Italy

 

Silent Words, Parlament of the State of Mexico

 

 

Oncoming shows for 2020

 

Palazzo Sant Agostino, Naples Italy

 

IHZ Internationales Handelszentrum, Berlin, Germany

 

Zona Arte, Toluca Cultural Center, Mexico

 

Fantastic Animals, Lewinson Art, CDMX

 

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

 

Member of MONDIAL ART ACADEMIA (France) - Chevalier Académicienne

 

Member of the Jury for the IWS, International Watercolor Society

 

Member of the Jury for the Tlaloc International Watercolor Prize

 

Biennal of Graphics and Poster by Milton Glaser

 

Gender Equality Conference awarded by the Parlamentary Women

 

Piece of the Month by the Museun of Watercolor of Mexico State

 

Mexican Painters of 19^th Century, Investigation and conversatory, UAEM