Federico Correa

Federico E. Correa is a painter who lives and paints in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Correa’s grandparents were from Zacatecas and Aguascalientes, Mexico. Born into a family of farm workers, Federico is the third of seven children. He grew up in Soledad, California, a farming community in the heart of the Salinas Valley.

After working in corporate public relations and as a technical writer in Silicon Valley, Correa pursued his passion, painting. Although as an artist he primarily works as a painter and has primarily focused on large format oil paintings on canvas, he also enjoys drawing with charcoal, pastels and painting with acrylic paint on paper. He also enjoys doing sculpture. In addition to his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Public Relations and in the Fine Arts, Correa holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Mount Royal Graduate School of Painting , Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore MD. A Ford Foundation Fellow, Correa was awarded the prestigious Walters Art Museum Fellowship from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

Master of Fine Arts 1988
The Mount Royal Graduate School of Painting
The Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland

Bachelor of Fine Arts 1985
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

Bachelor of Arts, Public Relations 1973
San Jose State University
San Jose, California

Associate in Arts, Hartnell College, Salinas, California

ArtSites6, The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Federico Correa: Tales of Judgement, The Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA
Federico Correa, London Square Gallery, Norfolk, VA
Mexicanidad: Federico Correa, London Square Gallery,
Norfolk, VA
19 Visions/Divisions, Gallery 409, Baltimore, MD
Sentimientos, Galleria ArteCorrea
San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico
Sangre de Zacatecas, Galeria Arte Correa. San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico
Reloj 46 Galleria, San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico
Nailed Feet: Federico Correa, Armstrong Slater Gallery, Hampton, Virginia
Light Images, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Six Degrees of Inspiration, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
New Work, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Work by Palmer Rae Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia
Entre Incubos y Piel, The State Museum of Art, QRO, Queretaro,Mexico
Grounded in San Miguel de Allende, Oxenberg Art, Miami, Fl
Fundacion Casa Europa, Works by Federico Correa, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Varta, JAL, Mexico
Serendip Gallery, Norfolk, VA
Galleria Nudo, San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico
Demonios Internos, Centro Cultural El Nigromante Bellas Arts, San Miguel de Allende, MX
Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, Califor...