Cristian Armenta

Born in 1985 in Mexico City, Mexico,
Armenta started painting since 10 years old and become a student in fine arts in Accademia D’Arte Firenze in
2004. He is a Knife & Experimental painter who is
famous for painting vibrant and colorful portraits of unknown people and abstracts paintings. Arrmentta uses knives, hands and everything he can use to paint his artwork as he seems to prefer different techniques using a mix of basic mediums and industrial materials.
For him, painting is an intense experience, desirable and formidable. It's a combination of conflicting and complementary internal movements; excitement, anxiety, pleasure, vertigo, attraction, doubt and acceleration.

Armenta's work could be described as adventurous, since it includes various techniques. Such is the case of watercolors, experiments with alcohol, gasoline and other industrial materials, among others. Also, his styles range from drawings, figurative, collages and accidental compositions to playful abstractions, whether expressionist, naive or semi-geometric. It should be noted that the manifestation of an aqueous or diluted character is explicit in its oils and acrylics. In that way we observe areas of the canvas with intentional washes or gradients tha...

Accademia D'arte Firenze
"Top 20 Artist to Watch in 2020" by Saatchi Art.

-Solo Expo " becoming someone" at "Museo Nazionale del Bargello" Florence. July 2007
-Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie - Mexico City, October 2014.
-Collective Exhibition "Irreverentes y Protocolarios" - 2015 - Mexico City
-The Other Art Fair - Brooklyn, US. 2018.
-The Other Art Fair - London, UK. 2019.
-The Forever Now - Playa del Carmen, MX 2021.
-Tendam/ Cortefiel Collaboration, México, 2021.
-Biennale io, Dubai, UAE 2022.
-Solo Exhibition "Is Ok to Make No Sense" - SLS Hotel Cancun, Mexico. 2022