Antonia Guerrero Art

Resume Antonia Guerrero is an award-winning Mexican artist. Her work, rooted in a deep passion for drawing, encompasses painting, performance art, video and installations. Since moving in 1999 from Mexico City to New York, she has concentrated on portraits, including a number of commissioned portraits for clients in the United States, Europe and Mexico. Her portrait work is in a range of media: drawing (pencil and charcoal), encaustic, egg tempera and oil. These portraits form the core of an extensive solo exhibition scheduled for September 2004 in the Mexico City gallery, Arte en el Aire. Ms. Guerrero conceived, curated and participated in a bicultural exploration of the theme Identity/Identidad in the summer of 2002. The two-week workshop in digital art, held at Talleres de los Tropicos in Mexico City, brought together three U.S. and three Mexican women artists. The works they created were exhibited at the Art Forum Gallery in a Mexico City. Antonia Guerrero contributed a video installation, Resurreccion, to the 2001 Latino Festival New York City. She spent the summer of 1999 as an invited artist at the Foreign Scholars Summer Residence at Penn State University, where she taught drawing and, working with graduate students, created and presented a new performance piece. During a month-long artist's residency in Mojacar, Spain, in 1998, she developed a series of drawings, performance art and a video installation centered on the theme of a pilgrimage from Mexico to Spain. In 1997, the Diego Rivera Mural Museum in Mexico City presented a major exhibition of Ms. Guerrero's drawings, digital art, and video installations. Earlier, she exhibited at the gallery of the Mexican Consulate in New York and participated in a number of group shows, including all-women exhibits at the Munich Museum in Germany and the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City. Her first one-woman show, 1978, was also held at Mexico City's Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Guerrero's reputation as an innovative performance artist is well established in Mexico. Many of her works combining visual imagery and dance have explored the theme of mestizaje, the blending of races and a concept at the core of Mexican identity. In 1993, she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Mexico-U.S. bicultural grant for her performance piece Malintzin. She performed the work at festivals throughout Mexico, and in 1995 represented Mexico with performances of Malintzin at the International New Theater Festival in Romania. She has performed in theater and as a dancer, and has designed costumes for opera, television, film, and the stage. Her costume design for the Mexican film Gertrudis Bocanegra was nominated for an Ariel, Mexico's equivalent of an Oscar, and her costumes for the musical production Donna Giovanna won a major theater award in Mexico City. Antonia Guerrero studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City and at Pratt Institute in New York City. She lived and worked in Mexico for most of her life before moving to New York in 1999. Her father was the prominent Mexican painter Jesus Guerrero Galvan.