Carlos Apartado

I paint from the gut.
With everything I am and with everything that I feel.
I started almost thirty years ago doing figurative portraits. I wanted to capture faces, icons, with precision, with force… almost with obsession. That’s where I learned to tame form and emotion. But life kept breaking that need for control in me. Little by little. Without asking permission.
Today I don’t want to copy anything anymore.
I don’t want anything to make logical sense.
I paint what I feel. Period.
Color that screams, gesture that overflows, shapes that are born and break without asking for explanation. Each canvas is a piece of me in that exact moment: the rage, the joy that burns, the emptiness that suddenly fills with light, the silence that explodes. I don’t know what’s going to come out when I stand in front of the easel. And that’s what I like the most.
I want whoever owns one of my works to stand there looking at it and wonder:
“What the hell was Carlos feeling when he painted this?”
“What was he going through?”
“What was happening inside him?”
And that they never find the same answer.
Because each person will read it according to what they themselves are carrying that day.
My painting is no longer mine. It becomes the viewer’s.
This evolut...

Carlos Apartado (born January 26, 1976, in Mexico City) discovered his passion for art at an early age. Guided by his father, he began experimenting with shapes and colors at just four years old, diving into art encyclopedias to nurture his curiosity and develop his creative vision.

During his studies in advertising design, Apartado encountered oil painting—a discovery that would profoundly shape his artistic path. His first work in this medium received high praise from his professors, leading to an exhibition at the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics.

Between 1996 and 1999, his work embodied a striking duality of strength and melancholy, expressed through emotionally charged portraits and a growing affinity for expressionism. In 1997, his grandfather's illness became a pivotal moment in his career, inspiring him to create around 30 pieces that captured the emotional intensity of that period.

His grandfather’s passing in 1998 left him in a deep void, causing him to step away from painting for 14 years. However, in 2012, following the death of Chavela Vargas, he rediscovered his artistic drive, once again finding oil painting to be an essential means of expression. Since then, his work has become more than a creative pro...

-Exposición "Festival internazionale per la Pace e il dialogo tra i popoli e le Religioni" 4 de junio 2014/ Italia, Roma / Embajada de Iraq ante la Santa Sede / Colectiva.

-Exposición “Rúbricas” / 3 al 23 de Septiembre 2015 / Colectiva 

-Exposición "Mujeres de Hoy" / 14 de marzo 2014/ Casa de Cultura STUNAM Emiliano Zapata / Colectiva

-Exposición “Royal Talents” / Octubre 2014 / Museo Soumaya / Colectiva 

-Exposición “Séptima muestra de arte Grupo Reforma” / Abril 2014 / Colectiva

-Exposición "Frida Visita al Indio" 16 de junio 2013/ Casa fortaleza de Emilio "El Indio" Fernández / Colectiva.

-Exposición "Biennal 2o Festival Internazionale Delle Emozioni" 17 de mayo 2013/ Italia Alexander Museum Palace Hotel / Colectiva.

-Exposición "Animales Impuros" / 16 de abril 2013 / Galería Aguafuerte / Colectiva.

-Exposición “30 obras de mentes artistas” / 6 de mayo 2013 / Colectiva.

-Exposición colectiva / 20 de abril 2013 / Galería Aguafuerte/ Colectiva.

-Exposición "Ismos y nuevas vanguardias" / 4 de abril 2013 / Galería Aguafuerte / Colectiva.

-Restaurante Bar “La Tirada” / agosto de 1999 / Colectiva.

-Galería de arte de la Universidad del Valle de México / 22 de febrero 1999 / "La Conciencia Del Ser" / Individual.

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