ITZEEL REYES, Mexican, CDMX 1970. She is a self-taught plastic artist. She has taken several courses and workshops in drawing, painting and materials techniques. She works with oil techniques, drypoint engraving and mixed media drawing. Her work is characterized by three...
Read MoreITZEEL REYES, Mexican, CDMX 1970. She is a self-taught plastic artist. She has taken several courses and workshops in drawing, painting and materials techniques. She works with oil techniques, drypoint engraving and mixed media drawing. Her work is characterized by three recurring themes: detachment, finitude and the dreamlike. He explores these themes through various series, distorting the figure and inventing creatures and environments. She has more than 50 solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums, including El Palacio Legislativo de San Lazaro, El Museo de las Culturas or El Palacio Postal in the CDMX. She has exhibited in the USA, 2016 in Chicago Illinois, at Colibrí Gallery and 2019 at Prospectus Gallery. She has been published in the magazine Casa del Tiempo UAM, (1992) magazine Mixcoac-UNAM (2017); Magazine Folium (Argentina-Buenos Aires no. june. 2023), Biografías México magazine (Guadalajara, no. July 2023), catalogs such as La Bienal de los Volcanes 2015, Seminario de Cultura en México 2020, in the magazines of Subastas Mexico (July and October 2020 issues); in December 2019, a drawing in mixed media was selected for the book " Zapata. Documents. Art. Graphic", La Jornada Editores, BUAP and Federal Government (page 61).
In January 2023, she was awarded the Bronze medal, Prix International Des Professionels de L´art 2022, in the category of Surrealist and Symbolist Painting (Mondial Art Academy). In August 2022 she was awarded First Place in the Federico Kampf Biennial, in its first edition. She has received two other medals through INBA: 1986 Bronze, Nippon television network and 1984 Silver, Biennial convened by the Government of Japan, Kanagawa. Government of Japan, Kanagawa.
She has also worked designing and illustrating posters, building theater scenery for the UAEM (1999), and worked as art director for commercials for companies such as Central Films, La Palma films, Calipso and Nautilus Films from 2000 to 2003. She was director of the magazine "La Mandrágora" from 1995 to 2000 and did all the covers and design the magazine.
