David Ojeda (1976) Originally from San Luis Potosí, David has devoted more than twenty-five years to the visual arts. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Art and Design at the National Autonomous University of...
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David Ojeda (1976)
Originally from San Luis Potosí, David has devoted more than twenty-five years
to the visual arts. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the
Faculty of Art and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM), and a Master’s in Habitat Sciences from the Autonomous University of
San Luis Potosí (UASLP). He worked for ten years as Academic Coordinator in the
Visual Arts area at the Center for the Arts of San Luis Potosí.
He has held three solo exhibitions, Entropy
at Masmédula Galería in Mexico City (2002) Open City (2005) at Alliance
Française in Mexico City and Wound at the
Museum of Contemporary Art of San Luis Potosí (2020). He has also participated
in more than fifty group exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, England, Italy, and
Greece. Highlights include the national exhibition “FOCO MX” of the Third Prize
for Contemporary Photography of Mexico, at Museo 4 Caminos in Mexico City
(2017), as well as selection for “Crisis Gaia” at Magazzino 26 Gallery in
Trieste, Italy (2021).
He has received several distinctions,
including the Artistic Production Grant from the State Fund for Culture and the
Arts on three occasions—Young Creators (2003), Creators (2008), and Established
Creators (2015). He is also a three-time winner of the “20 de Noviembre”
Competition, receiving the Eduardo Guerrero Sculpture Prize (2018), the Raúl
Gamboa Prize for Drawing and Printmaking (2019), and the Manuel Ramos
Photography Prize (2020).
He is currently dedicated to artistic
production and is pursuing the PhD in Art and Design in UNAM’s Graduate Program
in Art and Design (2024).
