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Guerrero Antonia Fecha de Nacimiento(Defunción): Antonia Guerrero mailitzin@hotmail.com (212)21. 64.22 * Art * Essay Antonia Guerrero is a Mexican-American visual artist whose works have been shown around the world. In 1997 the Diego Rivera Mural Museum in Mexico City presented a major exhibition of her drawings, digital art and video installations. In 1978 the prestigious Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, in an effort to showcase new talent, gave her a one-woman show. Her group shows include two all-women exhibits: a German-Mexican cultural exchange at the Munich Museum and a US-Mexican bicultural drawing show at the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico. She has also participated in a group show of Latin American artists at the Sperry Rand Building and a drawing show at the New Museum. In 1984 she exhibited her paintings and drawings at the gallery of the Mexican Consulate in New York. A well known performance artist in Mexico, Ms. Guerrero has created pieces utilizing both visual imagery and dance experience (she studied classical and modern dance). She has also participated in theater as a performer, and has created costume design for opera, television, cinema, and theater. Her costume design in 1991 for the Mexican film, Gertrudis Bocanegra, based on the life of a Civil War heroine of the same name, was nominated for an Ariel by the national film industry in Mexico. In 1993 she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Mex-US Bicultural Grant for her interdisciplinary performance Malinztin. The piece was performed in various art festivals throughout Mexico and in 1996 represented Mexico at the International New Theater Festival in Sibiu, Romania. Ms. Guerrero has received several grants for art productions from prominent Mexican institutions. In September of 1998 she was awarded an artist-in-residence grant in Mojacar, Sapin, during which time she presented an exhibition of drawings, video installations and performance art as part of a major project on the contrasting aspects of nature and technology. Ms. Guerrero studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City and at Pratt Institute in New York City. She was born in Philadelphia, PA, grew up in Mexico City and has lived back and forth between the United States and Mexico. Her father, Jesus Guerrero Galván, was a distinguished Mexican painter and a member of the Mexican Muralist movement. Her mother, Bessie Galbraith, was a Canadian-born journalist and advertising woman who earned recognition in Mexico between 1940 and 1980. During the Second World War she was awarded two national prizes in the U.S. for her public health campaigns |
