Cristian Toledo

Cristian Toledo was born on March 11, 1961, in Santiago de Chile and is currently residing in Guadalajara, Mexico with the love of his life. Cristian received his art training at the Alhambra Palace in Santiago de Chile. His first solo exhibition “My Heart Speaks” was held at the La Alhambra Palace, Chile’s National Society of Fine Arts. His paintings have won numerous awards and can be found in many private collections around the world. Cristian’s painting is inspired by the simplicity of nature, the color of life, and a dream state called “Onirica”. Influenced by Vincent van Gogh, Cristian uses bold, dramatic brushstrokes and vibrant color schemes to capture basic human emotions such as love, joy, surprise, fear, sadness, anger, pride, and shame as depicted by nature, objects, our surroundings, and our imaginations

•Academy Diploma 1991, Drawing and Painting, National Society of Fine Arts of Chile.
•Certificate of the Academy of Drawing and Painting 1989-1992, National Society of Fine Arts of Chile.
•Academy Diploma 1991-1992, Drawing and Painting Section, National Society of Fine Arts of Chile.
•Diploma and Graduate of the Engraving Academy, Cabañas Cultural Institute of the Secretary of Culture of the Government of the State of Jalisco, Mexico.

Solo exhibitions:
•My Heart Speaks, July-August 1992, La Alhambra Palace, National Society of Fine Arts of Chile.
•Chile to the south of the world, April 1997 at the ArtDoc gallery of Dr. Juan José Alvarez Márquez, in the City of Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico.
•Exhibition for the benefit of children with terminal cancer, of the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara in the Mexico Room of the Hilton Guadalajara Hotel, June 2000.

Group exhibitions:
•National Art Salon 1992, National Society of Fine Arts of Chile.
•Autumn Hall 1993, National Society of Fine Arts of Chile.
•National Art Salon 1993, National Society of Fine Arts of Chile.
•Gallery of Modern Art of Guadalajara, November 1993.
•First International Meeting of the Mariachi, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Ixia Farias Hall of the Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Mexico.
•Art Gallery, School of Plastic Arts, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.