Gabriela Garza Padilla

Gabriela Garza Padilla, Mexican (1965) She was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. An industrialized city in the Northern Mexico. At the age of 14 she began to paint as a hobby. When she finished the highschool specialized in Math and Physics, she decided that her path was to be a professional artist and wanted to move to Mexico City and studied the Bachelor Degree in Arts at the Academia de San Carlos. Unfortunately she was forbidden to do this by her strict family, and she studied at the ITESM in Monterrey. (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, where she obtained the Bachelor Degree in Mass Communication and Journalism. She worked for four years in the corporate world of Monterrey until she quitted her job in 1989 at the age of 24, and established her first studio. Since then she has had 18 solo shows and more than 30 group shows in Mexico, The United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean, France, Spain, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Japan. Her work is featured in some of the most renowned books of the Fantastic and Magic Realism worldwide. Her paintings belong to private and corporate collections worldwide. Her love for mysticism, mythology and the masters of the Italian Renaissance, mixed with her American, French and Sephardic roots, gave birth to her deep view of life with its constant change and regeneration that she portrays in her paintings.