In order to visualise inner states of being, I make sculptures that enable the viewer to reflect and concentrate. My sculptures are plaster molds taken from my own body, which are later covered with a kind of skin made from cotton. The main idea behind my work is that this 'skin' serves as a container for emotions and as an emotional and phyiscal source of revival.

1965 Born in Mexico City
1986–88 Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas UNAM, Mexico City
1988–96 State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, Germany | Prof. G. Spagnulo
1995–96 Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin | Prof. L. Baumgarten

Scholarships and Prizes
2005 The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2001 The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
Omnilife-Prize for sculpture | Salon de Octubre, Guadalajara, Mexico
1998–99 Jovenes Creadores | Fondo Nacional, Mexico
1993–95 Scholarship for foreign students, Akademie Stuttgart
Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico

Exhibitions selected
2006 Xipe totec | Centro Cultural de España, Mexico
2005 Xipe totec | Former Monastery of Tepoztlan, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
Mexican Report | The cultural Institute of Mexico, Washington D.C., USA
2004 Xipe totec | Ethnological Museum, Berlin