About the artist
Roman Miranda
by Guillermo Sepúlveda
The atmosphere of our time appears very confusing,
but not so much that one can be convinced that this confusion does not have a clear dawn... to think and feel the noblest ideals of Humanity, the current is the great environment.
- Federico García Lorca
When a teacher recommends a disciple as someone who has not had to teach anything, and who also recognizes him as superior in the subject taught, in some way he is proclaiming the birth of a new teacher. This same thing happened to me when Rafael Rodríguez, the prominent painter from Querétaro, mentioned to me the existence of Román Miranda and the excellence he had achieved despite being still very young.
I have always followed with admiration the work of my friend Claudio Bravo, whose recent exhibition at the MARCO museum gave me the opportunity to enjoy, contemplate and analyze his achievements, and reflect on the solidity that drawing has represented in his monumental work. Román's drawings surprised me; The immediate reference was the kinship and quality that unites him with Bravo. I dared to say: the day Claudio meets your work he will be greatly excited because it will be reflected in your work. There are connections and parallels that guarantee continuity and validity to this medium of drawing, so delicate and scarce, especially now that many of the artists called "contemporaries", have forgotten about it.
The intimacy that this medium demands of the creator greatly captivates viewers and art lovers, giving us back the enjoyment of the enduring that these delicate and precise lines communicate, reconstructing the fragmented world we currently live in.
The artist was born in Mexico City in 1973; He currently lives in Santiago de Querétaro, Qro.
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STUDIES:
2009 Visual Arts Production Workshop, State Center for Artistic and Cultural Training. Querétaro, Qro., Mexico.
2008 Oil Painting Workshop, City Museum. Querétaro, Qro., Mexico.
2007 "Introduction to Painting" Workshop, Autonomous University of Querétaro. Querétaro, Qro., Mexico.
2005 "Production and Creativity" Workshop, Autonomous University of Querétaro. Querétaro, Mexico.
2001 Engraving Workshop. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
1999 Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design. Ibero-American University. Mexico City, Mexico
1994 Engraving and drawing with model. Ignacio Ramírez El Nigromante School of Art - INBA. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2009 "Dreams of Others", City Museum, Querétaro, Qro., MEXICO.
2007 "Drawings and Engravings", House of Culture - Jorge Alberto Manrique Gallery, Celaya, Gto., MEXICO.
2007 "Graphics of an Imagery", Rosario Sánchez de Lozada Municipal Gallery, Querétaro, Qro., MEXICO.
2006 "Nahual", Jesús Romero Flores House of Culture, Mexico City, MEXICO.
2005 "Nahual", City Museum, Querétaro, Qro., MEXICO.
2001 "Painting and Engraving", Arte Total Gallery, State of Mexico, Mexico
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 "Conexiones. Contemporary Works by Mexican Artists", Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona, USA
2009 "For your eyes only", Mexican Contemporary Art Gallery, San Pedro Garza García, NL, MEXICO.
2009 "Figurative", Rosario Sanchez de Lozada Municipal Gallery, Queretaro, Qro., Mexico.
2009 "Drawn In; Drawings from Asia and the Americas", Noel-Baza Fine Art, San Diego, California, USA
2009 "Chess", Main Arcade of the House of Culture of Morelia, Morelia, Mich., MEXICO.
2008 "Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes", City Museum, Querétaro, Qro., MEXICO.
2008 "Emerging Artists of Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Art", Deloitte & Touche, New York, USA
2008 "The multiplication of possibilities", University Gallery - Contemporary Art, Querétaro, Qro., MEXICO.
2008 "A Fine Figure: Contemporary Mexican & Latin American Art", Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
2007 "Emerging Artists from Mexico and Latin America", New York Academy of Art, NewYork, USA
2007 "Between Friends and Dreams", Agora Cultural Center, State of Mexico, MEXICO.
2007 "Erotic", Corazones Art Gallery, Guanajuato, Gto., MEXICO.
2006 "Don't Be Too Alive II", Juan Rulfo Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico.
2005 "Angels and Demons", City Museum, Querétaro, Qro., MEXICO.
2000 "Collective", Arte Total Gallery, State of Mexico, MEXICO.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:
2009 CONECULTA, Program to Incentivize Artistic Creation. Querétaro, Qro., Mexico.
2007 First Place, Third Sylvia Pawa International Drawing Biennial - Mexico-Israel Cultural Institute.
2006 Selected, First International Drawing Biennial of the Americas Rafael Cauduro Tijuana.
2003 Honorable Mention, Municipal Meeting of Young Art - Graphic, Querétaro, Qro., MEXICO.
1998 Recognition, III National Poster Competition, Youth Integration Center, AC for drug prevention, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 Selected, III DIF-UNICEF Poster Contest 1998 for the rights of children, Mexico City, Mexico.