Horacio Quiroz

Mexico

Based in México City

Graphic Design, Universidad Iberoamericana

Based in México City. After working for several years in advertisement industry, I began my self-taught painting career in 2013.

I graduated in Graphic Design from Universidad Iberoamericana, following this I worked for nearly twelve years as Creative Art Director various renowned international advertising agencies, such as Publicis México and Zeta Advertising. During this time I took care of local and international accounts. As a publicist I learned to work under pressure on several projects at once, I gained a thorough understanding of how the industry works through dealing with customers, planners, brand managers, designers, producers, models etc.

Despite working full time as a publicist, my artistic education never stopped as I was always learning from the work of other art directors and great photographers, who I was fortunate to work with both here in Mexico and abroad.

In 2013, driven by my passion for the visual arts I decided to leave behind advertising and to devote myself entirely to artistic activity, to somehow reconnect with the spontaneity I had in my childhood. Thus, over the last six years I have launched myself on a new career path.

Just 3 years after starting my artistic career I was selected in the XVII Rufino Tamayo Biennial of Painting. My artistic proposal has been exhibited in different venues, galleries and art fairs in Mexico, Australia, United States and Europe. My work has been published in blogs and magazines in the United States, Canada, Denmark, UK, Germany, Spain, Chile and Mexico among others.

My painting is an exploration of the concept of polarity inspired by the texts of hermetic philosophy of The Kybalion, Carl Jung and the Tao. I use the human body as a tool for representing movement and change. It is through the body that we are learning to “be human” since we are constituted as beings by polarity itself, the flesh, the visible, the tangible and the spirit, invisible and intangible.

Selected Events

SOLO SHOWS

2020 DISTURBINGLY LIVELY, Galería Colector, Monterrey NL, México.
2018 POLARITIES, Booth Gallery, New York City USA .
2016 SNEAK PEAK INTO LOVE AND FEAR, Galería Progreso, México City.

GROUP SHOWS

2021 LUCID DREAMS (SOON), Copro Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA.
2021 DARK ART (SOON), Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
2020 ART COLLECTOR STARTER KIT SHOW (SOON), Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA.
2020 BIOCENO, Museo de la Cancillería, México City.
2020 KRONOS CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL ,Arts Santa Monica, Heartbeats Art Gallery, Barcelona Spain.
2020 LA ART SHOW, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA.
2020 URVANITY ART FAIR COAM, Heartbeats Art Gallery, Madrid Spain.
2020 CASA PIXAN 2Bucareli 69, México City.
2020 CLÍMAX ENTRE LO SUBLIME Y EL ÉXTASIS , Territorio, Emilio Dondé 10, México City.
2019 THE ANIMAL THAT THEREFORE I AM , La Cápsula, Zurich Switzerland .
2019 SMALL WORKS , Booth Gallery, New York City USA.
2019 ARTE VIVO, ART AUCTION EXHIBITION, Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), México City.
2019 CASA PIXAN 1, Bucareli 69, México City.
2019 BLAB SHOW, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA.
2019 JUSTLX, LISBOA CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, Heartbeats Art Gallery, Museu da Carris, Lisboa Portugal.
2019 ART VANCOUVER, INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Ovalo Galería, Vancouver Convention Centre East, Vancouver Canada.
2019 JUSTMAD X, MADRID CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, Heartbeats Art Gallery, Palacio Neptuno, Madrid Spain.
2019 ON PAPER, Booth Gallery, New York City USA.
2019 SALÓN ACME No.7 , (Bodega Acme) Proyecto Público Prim, México City.
2019 LA ART SHOW, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA.
2019 CONJOINED VS GROTESQUE, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles California, USA.
2018 GENESIS, Galería el Otro Mono, Cuernavaca Morelos, México.
2018 SALÓN ACME No.6, (Bodega Acme) Proyecto Público Prim, México City.
2017 MEMORIA INVOLUNTARIA , Galería K2, San Pedro Garza Garcia Mty. Nuevo León, México.
2017 MUERTE LENTA , Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo, México City.
2017 XVII BIENAL DE PINTURA RUFINO TAMAYO, Museo Rufino Tamayo, México City.
2017 SMALL WORKS 2017 , Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
2017 SUMMER 17 , Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia USA.
2017 FORBIDDEN THINKING, Last Rites Gallery, New York City USA.
2017 LA MOSTRA , Polyforum Siqueiros, México City.
2017 SALÓN ACME No.5 , (Bodega Acme) Proyecto Público Prim, México City.
2016 SOLSTICIO, Galería K2, San Pedro Garza Garcia Mty. Nuevo León, México.
2016 XVII BIENAL DE PINTURA RUFINO TAMAYO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca.
2016 SER SENSIBLE, La Quiñonera, México City.
2016 SECRET NIGHTS 03, Museo Británico Américano, México City.
2016 PINTURA Y FOTOGRAFÍA CONTEMPORÁNEA, Parque Lincoln, Design Week 2016, México City.
2016 SALÓN ACME No.4. Proyecto Público Prim, México City.
2015 ANTROPOMETRÍAS. Galería Universitaria, IBERO, México City.
2015 PINTURA Y FOTOGRAFÍA CONTEMPORÁNEA. Parque Lincoln, Design Week 2015, México City.
2014 UNDERDOGS. Galería Diagrama, México City.
2014 TOCA CONMIGO (Play me, I´m yours México).Plaza RÍo de Janeiro, México City.
2013 FADE AWAY AND RADIATE. Hotel W, México City.
2013 YO CONTENIDO, CECUT, Tijuana, México.