Yolanda Iñiguez

YOLANDA INIGUEZ SNYDER was born in Mexico City in 1950. She studied Social Science and Foreign Languages at Motolinia Universidad, and subsequently Montessori education in Lake Como, Italy. At the same time she became interested in the plastic arts. She studied first in Mexico and continued in Barcelona, Spain for three years. From there she moved to Oxford, England where she studied sculpture with Kostek Wojnarowsky for seven years. During that time she participated in individual and group exhibitions, and became an active member of the Oxford Art Society. Afterwards she moved to Nottingham, England, where she continued her artistic production with varied pictoric and sculpture creations, and was a member of the selection comitee of the Department of Fine Arts of the university of Nottinghan.
When Yolanda returned to Mexico she became a founding member of the Watercolor Artists of Morelos. She presently resides in Cuernavaca, where in 2006 she designed the 2x14 meter mural "Despertar en Primavera" in the Acapatzingo Park, done in bizantine mosaic, which merited being included in the book "Mosaics in Mexico", edited by Artes de Mexico.

In 2007, 2008 and 2010, 2012, 2013, she was awarded with the Premio Firenze "Mario Conti" a...

Oxford College of Further Education. Secondary and high school. Oxford, England.
Oxford College of Further Education. (Sculpture)Oxford, England.
Instituto Botticelli. Painting (Renaisance techniques). Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Iberoamerican University (Art history) Mexico City.

MAIN ONE WOMAN SHOWS:
Oxford Play House Theatre. Oxford, England
Oxford Palace. Oxford, England.
Polyforum Siqueiros. Mexico City. (Museum)
Raddison Hotel. Mexico City.
Instituto Mora. Mexico City. (Museum)
Acapatzingo Park, Cuernavaca, Mexico. ( permanent MURAL15m ). See the book Mosaics in Mexico, editorial Artes de Mexico.