elegy 4 Painting

Mary Paz was born in Mexico City, in 1967. In 1985, she finished her Bachelors degree in Industrial Design from the Universidad Iberoamericana. She then obtained a Certificate in Arts at the Lorenzo de Medici Institute in Florence, Italy. In 1994 she entered the Academia de San Carlos, where she completed her Masters in Visual Arts in 1997, and a Masters in Contemporary Art and Society at the Universidad Autonoma of Queretaro in 2013. She finish her PHD in Art History in Casa Lamm México. She has participated in more than 25 individual and collective exhibits, of which the most relevant are: in Mexico, at the Franz Mayer Museum, Academia de San Carlos, Ollin Yolliztli Cultural Center, Libertad Gallery and the Municipal Gallery in Queretaro; and internationally, her work has been seen in Florence, Houston and Shanghai. As an Academic, she has given several courses on History of Art, Material Techniques, and Painting and Creative Expression. She taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana at the School of Graphic Design and for the past 20 years she has been directing a Plastic Production Workshop, where visual artists are formed. On several occasions she has participated as judge in national Painting and Sculpture competitions. Her artwork production has traversed through various themes related to the questioning of the human being, from dreams and the unconscious, to the origins of the Universe and the journey of man.