Juan Vicente Urbieta Ruiz

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on November 10, 1961.

MANIFEST:

In the sweet, intimate and sometimes difficult encounter with my own self, I find it scrutinizing and stripping away what life constantly shows me.

I live in an exciting world full of sounds, images and feelings that invite me to ask myself what is behind this that I am living ... my transformation, recognizing, facing my fears and turning them into allies to transmute them into reasons to grow.

I am a traveler and I am in transit covered in this exciting human form; I see myself, looking through my sculpture, in a mirror, showing what worries me. I am not tied to anything or anyone, I am free to express in the way that pleases me and as I feel it. In the end it is a necessity of my being to which I respond and in doing so I enjoy my work, my sculptures feed me, my paintings nourish me, I like what they make out of me and they also give me the opportunity, finally, to leave a legacy in my way through this world.

Holds a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Administration from ITESO (Technological Institute of Higher Studies of the West).

Develops his first artistic interests since he was 16 years old. In 1986 he lived for two years with an indigenous community in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua, where he worked as a promoter of a carpentry workshop and wood carving.

In 1990 he traveled to the city of Barcelona, Spain, where he spent two years studying sculpture at the ATENEU DE CERDANYOLA and exhibiting his works in some galleries in Catalonia.

He returns to Mexico to continue expanding his knowledge in the Plastic Arts career at the Cabañas Cultural Institute, as well as studying different drawing & painting techniques with masters such as the known masters Emilio Galindo, Emilio Abugarade, José Barbosa, Gustavo Bustos, Irma Serna, the well-known Davis Birks, José Fors and others.

He has been teaching anatomical drawing and sculpture at the university level since 1993 at TEC de Monterrey in Guadalajara College, for three years and as a master of plastic arts for 8 years in different institutions of the same city.

From 1990 on, his work has been exhibited in more than 139 exhibitions around Mexico (28 states), United States (Miami, Florida, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Beverly Hills and San Diego, California) Quebec and Montreal, Canada; Barcelona and Madrid Spain and last january 2019 in Milan, Italy under the representation of the Van Gogh Gallery in Madrid.

Currently, Juan Vicente Urbieta remains in his city of Guadalajara, working in his studio and showing his art work in his private gallery, developing new pieces for each of his collections, simultaneously, as well as other special urban projects and monumental sculptures.