Toro Amillategui

Toro Amillategui is a Mexico City-based painter and sculptor. His expressionist works play with humor and sarcasm to reveal the contradictory human. Toro’s subjects range from copulating dogs, decapitations, and Jesus Christ to the Bathing Beauty. He works with spontaneity, respecting the first brush stroke, and often uses found objects such as toilet seats, oven doors and cardboard as not-so-blank canvases for punchy expression.

He learned to draw self-taught since he was a child. When he finished high-school he went to different workshops of artists until he found José Barbosa's, where he consolidated his expressionist inclinations. As of 2014, he is a founding member of the collective of artists 'Quinto piso' based in Mexico City, with whom he has exhibited on numerous occasions. In addition, his work has been shown at a number fairs and cultural spaces such as Material Art Fair (2019), Centro Cultural México Contemporáneo (2019) and at the Jesús Reyes Heroles House of Culture (repeatedly), as well as in the city of Athens (Contemporary Heritage Art Exhibition, 2018) and in New Bedford, Massachusetts (Co Creative Center, 2019).