Daniel Lezama
Daniel Lezama was born in Mexico City in 1968, the son of Mexican-American parents. He is a graduate of the National School of Plastic Arts of the UNAM from 1993 to 1997. In 2001 he won the Acquisition Award of the X Bienal Tamayo. He has received support from FONCA and CONACULTA on multiple occasions. In 2008 he exhibits the early retrospective “ La Madre Prodiga ” at the Museum of Mexico City, on the occasion of which a large-scale monograph of his work is published in Hilario Galguera Ediciones. In 2011 he presents “ Letters of Travel ” at the Hilario Galguera Gallery, accompanied by the publication of the book Travelers by the Editorial Jovis Art in Germany. Other monographs of his work have been published more recently, such asTamoanchan Trees (Vaso Roto Ediciones), and La Suave Matria (Conaculta). To date, he has participated in more than a hundred individual and group exhibitions, including " Great Masters of the 20th Century" at the MARCO Museum, the " 2nd Beijing Biennial " , " The Myth of Two Volcanoes" at the Palacio of Fine Arts, “ Imperium” at the Leipzig Spinnerei, and “ Images of the Homeland” , at the MUNAL and Territories of Memory, at the MAM, the representative piece of the Mexican Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition in Milan, and the X Mercosul Biennial in 2015. His work is part of numerous public and private collections in Mexico and the world, among which the collection INBA's MAM, Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection, El Museo del Barrio in NY, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Essl Sammlung and the Black Coffee Foundation. Likewise, he has ventured into the Mexican artistic environment as an opinion leader, jury, curator and tutor of young generations of plastic artists. He currently lives in Cuernavaca.
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