About the artist
David Meraz's painting and drawing arises under the premise of exploring ideas and images coming from the author's experience with a mental disorder and his consequent psychological and medical therapy. Taking the creation of drawings and paintings as personal tools, he investigates his imagination and key moments during his illness. Along with the progress in psychiatric sessions, drawing, painting and writing serve as another channel to resolve the obstacles of their disrupted reality and thereby achieve a healthy psyche and the strengthening of the self.
David Meraz was born in Monterrey, N. L. September 13, 1978.
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INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
Luminous Birds (Gallery of Contemporary Mexican Art, 2011)
Lion of the Night (Gallery of Contemporary Mexican Art, 2013)
The Memorial and the Dawn (Gallery of Contemporary Mexican Art, 2014 and Libertad Gallery, Querétaro, 2015)
The appearance of a mountain (Gallery of Contemporary Mexican Art, 2016).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
He has been selected in national biennials since 2008: III Gómez Palacio Painting Biennial 2014, VI Biennial of Visual Arts Yucatán (2013, Visual Arts Center, Merida, Yuc.), Metarelatos (2012, Allegro Gallery, Panama City, Panama), the III Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial 2012 (Pedro Coronel Museum, Zacatecas, Zac.), the Selection of the Pinacoteca de Nuevo León Collection 112 Works 112 Artists 2012 (Pinacoteca del Estado de Nuevo León, Mty., NL), the II Gómez Palacio National Painting Biennial 2010 (Gómez Palacio Museum of Modern Art), the II Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial 2010 (Pedro Coronel Museum, Zacatecas, Zac.), the 7th Alfredo Zalce National Painting and Engraving Biennial 2009 (Pedro Coronel Museum, Zacatecas, Zac.), Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Mich.), the XXIX National Meeting of Young Art 2009 (Museum of Art of Aguascalientes, Ags.), among others.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2015
Nuevo León Prize for Novel Literature 2015 Conarte
2014
1st Acquisition Prize III Gómez Palacio Painting Biennial
2014 and 2012
1st Acquisition Prize in the Bernardo Elosúa Farías Award, Paper Art Support AC Editions 2014 and 2012
2013
Program for the Promotion and Development of Quality Art (PIDAC) for the dissemination of works outside the State, from Conarte.
2010
3rd Acquisition Prize at the 1st Ángel Zárraga Regional Biennial of Painting and Engraving,
2007
1st Prize for Acquisition in the 2007 Nuevo Leon Plastic Arts Review, Drawing, Painting and Graphic Work Show.
2007
Honorable Mention, Nuevo León Prize for Literature and Novels, 2007 Conarte
Her work is part of the collection of Conarte (Council for Arts and Culture of Nuevo León), FORCAN (Regional Fund for Culture and the Arts of the Northeast), the Berel-Arte AC Collection of the Monterrey Institute of Technology, the collection of the Prof. Rubén Herrera School of Fine Arts (Arteaga, Coah.), the Gómez Palacio Institute of Culture in Durango, and private collections in Mexico. She currently lives and works in Monterrey, Nuevo León.