Statement
My work portrays travel and the city as a metaphor for creating fictional landscapes. My work has literary and cinematic influences from which I build scenes. I constantly draw and redraw characters as a part of my creative process to conceive my images in which I use the visual and expressive qualities of painting and printmaking techniques and mediums. The images that I invent include urban environments, natural landscapes and elements of everyday life such as automobiles and characters who wander paths of uncertainty.
Bio
Gustavo Mora Perez was born and raised in Mexico. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Studio Arts at the Instituto de Artes Visuales del Estado de Puebla, and a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Facultad de Artes y Diseño at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In 2025, he graduated as Specialist in Art History from the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
His work is influenced by Expressionism and Mexican Graphic Arts as well as literary and cinematic works. He has participated in exhibits and art events in Mexico, Argentina, France, the United States, and elsewhere.
His solo exhibits include Mito y concreto, at Casa de la Cultura Oaxaqueña, in Oaxaca, Mexico (2024), and Gustavo Mora Printmaker at Mission Gráfica at Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, CA (2014). He has also participated in collective exhibits such as the XIV International Biennial of Engraving and New Images in Sarcelles, France (2009), and José Guadalupe Posada,Mexican History Museum in Monterrey, Mexico (2012). In 2009, he won honorary mention at the First Biennial of Mexican Contemporary Printmaking at the National Museum of the Stamp in Mexico City. He has been a member of the California Society of Printmakers since 2008, and he is member of Los Angeles Printmaking Society since 2025.
Resume
Gustavo Mora Perez born in Puebla, Mexico
Education:
1998 BA Instituto de Artes Visuales del Estado de Puebla. Mexico
2021 Master in Visual Arts. Facultad de Artes y Diseño. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2025 Specialtization on Art History. Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Mito y concreto. Galería Rufino Tamayo. Casa de la Cultura Oaxaqueña. Oaxaca, Mexico
2014 Gustavo Mora Printmaker. Mission Gráfica. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. San Francisco, CA
2011 Landscapes. San Francisco Friends School Gallery. San Francisco, CA
2006 Asfalto y Violeta. Espacio Catorce. University of Puebla
2004 La línea Incandescente. José Manzo Gallery. Casa de Cultura. Puebla
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017 Graphically Observed. California College of the Arts. Oakland, CA
Pressing On–Contemporary Printmaking. Richmond Art Center. Richmond, CA
Beneath the Surface. Davis Art Center. Davis, CA
2015 In Our Image/En Nuestra Imagen. Pajaro Valley Arts. Watsonville, CA
2014 Redefining the Multiple. Gary Francis Fine Art Gallery. Alameda, CA
2013 Prints: CA, LA and beyond. Los Angeles Print Space. CA
José Guadalupe Posada. Mexican History Museum. Monterrey, Mexico
2010 Printing From Perception: Observing minute details and grand gestures. Adobe Art Center, Castro Valley, CA
2009 XIV International Biennial of Printmaking and New Images of Sarcelles. France
2008 First National Biennial of Painting of Gomez Palacio. Cultural Institute of Gomez Palacio, Durango. Mexico
2007 La Joven Estampa 2007. Casa de las Américas. Havana, Cuba
2006 Scratching the Light. Cultural Institute of Tlaxcala. Mexico
2004 Monotypes. Gustavo Mora - Ronald Weering. Erasto Cortes Museum. Puebla, Mexico
2003 Calcographic Techniques. Contemporary Art and Design Gallery. Puebla, Mexico
2001 IX National Biennial of Drawing and Printmaking Diego Rivera 2000. Cultural Institute of Guanajuato, International Festival Cervantino, National Institute of Fine Arts, and National Council for Culture and Arts
2000 Assembly. Culture Palace.Tlaxcala, Mexico
Selected Awards:
2010 Prize (Painting) 10th State Contemporary Art Encounter. Secretariat of Culture. Puebla, Mexico
2009 Honorific Mention. (Printmaking). First Biennial of Contemporary Printmaking. National Printmaking Museum, National Fine Arts Institute, Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca, National Council for Culture and Arts. Mexico City
Selected Publications:
Book: 2013 California Society of Printmakers: One Hundred Years, 1913-2013. Maryly Snow, Sylvia Solocheck Walters
Catalogs:
2015 En Nuestra Imagen/In our Image. Curator: Juan R. Fuentes Pajaro Valley Arts Council
A Tiro de Fuego. Humberto Valdez, Orietta Aguilar. National Autonomous University of Mexico
2009 Contemporary Stamp First Biennial. National Museum of Printmaking (Mexico)
Professional Affiliations:
2025- to present Member of Los Angeles Printmaking Society
2008-to present Member of California Society of Printmakers
Residences:
2016 La Ceiba Gráfica (lithography), Veracruz, Mexico
2000 Rufino Tamayo Workshop (painting and printmaking), Oaxaca, Mexico
Selected Collections:
Casa de México en España, Foundation. Madrid, España
Old Jesuit College Cultural Center. Patzcuaro, Mexico
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum Of Art. Kennesaw State University. Georgia
Other Professional Activities
1998-to present Founder-Director of Casa Roja Workshop (Printmaking, Painting & Mail Art)
1998-to present Art Instructor at schools and workshops teaching drawing, painting, and printmaking
Contact: gustavo.mora.perez@gmail.com