Julio Chico. Resume

1947
He was born in April 12th. In Mexico City.
1965-1970
His professional studies were taken at the ENAP
(Plastic Arts National School), UNAM(Autonomous
National University of Mexico). Mexico City.
1969
Became a member of the “Art Garden”, and did
the same in the National Center of Conservation of
Artistic Works .INBA(Nacional Institute of Fine Arts)
Mexico City.
1976
Took part in the kiosk’s paint restoration placed at
the colony Santa María la Ribera, Mexico City.
He was responsible for the Maternity Hall’s stucco
restoration, that is placed at the Palacio de Minería’s
Chapel. Mexico City.
Restored the Jiménez and Planes’ murals under the
Manuel Gaytán’s supervision, at the Palacio de Minería
(Mining Palace). Mexico City.
He was in charge of the relieves and sculptures’ restora-
tion, placed at the Teatro de la Ciudad’s admittance, after
the fire that took place in this enclosure. Rebuilt the
shields in high-relief that are placed in the soffit of an
architrave and forum. Mexico City.
1977
Returned to “Jardín del Arte” again by second time.
Mexico City.
Became a member of the Molino’s artist’s studio, in
Santo Domingo. Mexico City.
His work came in to the Graphic Collection at the
Casa de México’s Museum, at Sofia, Bulgaria.
1979
Was invited to lead the Molino’s artist’s Studio, and
imparted a photogravure course. Mexico City.
1985
Repainted the angel figures placed in the “Teatro de la
Ciudad’s boxes. Mexico City.
1985-1991
Was the printing studio’s founder for engraving, where
many artists such as Byron Gálvez, Edmundo Aquino,
Santos Balmori, Luis Filcer, Antonio Díaz, Shirley
Cherninsky, and others were adviced by him. Mexico City.
1988
The 930 Gallery was settled by him in order to open
an exhibition space for his work. In such forum were
also exhibited some of the Santos Balmori’s works,
like the engravings folder titled as “Eros”. Mexico City.
Took part in the infantile painting contest like a jury at
the ANDSA Gallery. Mexico City.
W/D
He was asked to do the Francisco Goitia’s play’s copy
“Tata Jesucristo” by Víctor Sandoval and Tomás Zurián,
at the command of the INBA, because of the initiative from
the Zacatecas’ Government.
1996
Became a member of the Mexican Fine Arts Room. Mexico City.

Individual Exhibitions
1977
Paintings, aquarelles and engravings.
Chelsea Gallery
Mexico City
1978
Paintings, engravements and Julio Chico’s drawings
La Tortolita Gallery
Tucson, Arizona, USA.
1981
TheJulio Chico’s most recent works
Drawings, hues and engravings.
José Clemente Orozco’s Gallery, INBA.
Mexico City.
Characters
La Tortolita Gallery
Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Oil paintings, aquarelles, drawings and engravings
La Pared Gallery
Mexico City.

Erotic work. Engravings and hues.
Alexandra Gallery.
Mexico City

1982
Oil paintings, aquarelles, engravings and sculpture
Israelita Sport Club
Mexico City
1983
Oil paintings, engravings and aquarelles exhibition
Liverpool Galleries
Mexico City
1984
Oil paintings, hues, engravings exposition.
Token Gallery
Monterrey, N.L., Mexico

Erotic work. Engravings and hues.
Alexandra Gallery
Mexico City.
1985
Oil paintings and hues exposition
Alexandra Gallery
Mexico City.

Recent aquarelles and engravings
Morlin Fine Arts
Houston, Texas, USA
1986
Hues, aquarelles and Graphic
Centro Asturiano de México Gallery
Mexico City

Oil paintings, aquarelles and Graphic
Puebla’s University Gallery
Puebla, Mexico.
1987
Oil paintings, Graphic and aquarelles
ANDSA Gallery
Mexico City.

Oil paintings and aquarelles
Ventas Libres de Bellas Artes Gallery, INBA
Mexico City.

Special exhibition for the Press
Arouesty Gallery
Mexico City.
1988
Recent work
Puebla’s University Gallery
Puebla, Mexico.

Hues and oil paintings
Centro Asturiano de México Gallery
Mexico City.
1989
Symbols
The Israelita’s Sport Club Gallery
Mexico, City.

Oil paintings and hues
Centro Asturiano de México Gallery
Mexico City.

Oil paintings and aquarelles
Puebla’s Culture Center
Puebla, Mexico.

Recent work
Banco Internacional’s Lobby
Mexico City.
1991
Recent work
Clarion’s Art Center. Clarion Hotel Reforma
Mexico City.
1992
Recent work
Atenea Gallery
San Miguel de Allende
Guanajuato, Mexico.

Oil paintings and aquarelles
Otumba’s Culture House Museum
Otumba, Estado de México.
1993
Homage to the Mexican Valley: Symbolism and Mythic.
Torre de PEMEX Gallery
Mexico City.

Aquarelles Exposition
Art corridor, Televisa’s channel 2
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

Graphic work retrospective
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1994
Julio Chico’s recent work
Symbolism and Mythic , Cultural Corridor C.E.D.I.M.
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1996
Oil paintings exposition: Broken Souls
Querétaro’s Museum of Art
Querétaro, Mexico.
2002
Was celebrating his 25th artistic life Anniversary.
Cosmovisión’s exposition, 25 light-years.
Twenty five sculptpaintings collection/oil paintings over wood.
Querétaro’s Museum of Art
Querétaro, Mexico.
2004
Twenty five Light years exposition.
Thirty sculptpaintings exhibition/ oil paintings over wood.
Mexiquense’s Cultural Center from the Modern Art Museum.
Toluca, Estado de México.
2004
The engravings’ folder Cosmovisión introduction.
Five engravings to three engraved copper plates collection.
Fiesta Americana Reforma’s lobby Hotel
Mexico City.

Collective Expositions
1968
Morelia’s University
Michoacán, México.
1969
ENAP’s students’ work, UNAM.
Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas
Mexico City.

Morelia’s University
Michoacán, México.

Painting
San Antonio Texas, USA.

Engraving
Casa del Lago (Lake´s House) INBA
Mexico City
1970
Engravings exhibition
Tauro Gallery
Mexico City.

Oil paintings and hues exhibition.
Centro Cultural Universitario
(University Cultural Center), UNAM. Mexico City.
1971
The cultural diffusion poster contest
Centro Cultural Universitario, UNAM.
Mexico City.
1972
Drawing, painting and sculptureibujo
José María Velasco Gallery, INBA
Mexico City.
1973
Graphic
Galería OME Gallery
Mexico City
1977
Angelis Gallery
Mexico City.

Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel / (Fiesta’s Room)
Mexico City.

Salón Nacional de la Plástica(Art Plastic National Room),
Biennial Graphic Section , Palace of Fine Arts, INBA
Mexico City.

The ISSSTE’s Anniversary with oil paintings.
ISSSTE’s Gallery / Plaza de la Ciudadela
Mexico City.

Oil paintings
Biblioteca de la Ciudad de México Gallery.
Mexico City.

Oil paintings
Mexico’s City Museum
Mexico City

Graphic and oil paintings
José Guadalupe Posada Gallery, INBA
Mexico City
1977-1987
Took part in the Art’s Fair for the American College’s benefit.
Mexico City.
1977
Graphic Room, Sofia’s Museum
Sofia, Bulgaria.

Oil paintings, graphics and aquarelles
La Tortolita Gallery
Tucson, Arizona. U.S.A.

Graphic
José González Gallery
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

1979
Plastic Arts National Room, Graphic Biennial Section.
Auditory Gallery, INBA, Mexico City.

Engravings
Morelia’s Culture House, INBA
Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.

Engravings
Morandi Gallery
Mexico City .

Engravings
La Tortolita Gallery
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
1980
Art Internacional Fair.
Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Miniature engravings.
Morandi Gallery
Mexico City.

Engravings
José Clemente Orozco Gallery, INBA
Mexico City.
1981
Plastic Arts Nacional Room, Plastic Arts Biennial Section.
Auditory Gallery, INBA
Mexico City
1982
Acquisition Prize.
Maracaibo’s Graphic Biennial
Maracaibo, Venezuela.
1982-1983
Mexico’s Contemporary Graphic.
1972-1982 (5X100)
Iturbide’s Palace.
Mexico City.
1983
Bulgaria’s Graphic Second Biennial
Varna, Bulgaria.

Puerto Rico’s Graphic Biennial
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1984
Color in engravement
Modern Art Museum, INBA
Mexico City.
1985
Bulgaria’s Graphic Biennial
Varna, Bulgaria.

Eighty five Collective ARS-LEY Group
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Mexico City.

Engravings.
Tamaulipas’ Institute of Fine Arts
Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Hues
La Pirámide’s Culture House
Mexico City.

Hues
Querétaro’s Culture House
Querétaro, Mexico.
Hues and aquarelles.
Tamaulipas’ Institute of Fine Arts.
Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.


Hues and aquarelles.
Ciudad Victoria’s Cattleman Casino.
Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
1986
Puerto Rico’s Graphic Biennial
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Graphic
Puebla’s University Pinacotheca.
Puebla, Mexico.
1990
Graphic and hues.
Val-Ray Gallery
Mexico City.
1991
Graphic
Otumba’s Culture House-Museum.
Otumba, Estado de México.
1992
The Portrait In Mexico/ Oil paintings Collection
Collective Transportation System (Metro) Zócalo Station.
Mexico City.
1992-1993
Art’s Fair for the American College’s benefit.
Mexico City.
1993
Oil paintings Carnival.
Maren Gallery
Mexico City.
1995
The Valley of Mexico. A current vision of the Landscape.
Contemporary Art University Museum
Mexico City.

Emblem Forum, Agora Gallery
New York, U.S.A.


Permanent Collections

Some of the Master Julio Chico’s works take part in the permanent collection in many famous art galleries and international museums since 1978:
1978
Sofia, Bulgaria’s Museum Graphic Room.
(Four works )
1993
Petróleos Mexicanos, Mexico City.
(Ten works )
1995
Querétaro’s Art Museum, Querétaro, México.
(One work )
2002
Querétaro’s Art Museum, Querétaro, México.
(One work )
2004
Modern Art Museum, Centro Cultural Mexiquense
Toluca, Estado de México.
(One work )



Prizes and Acknowledgements

1970
Second place in engravements.
Painting, Engravement and Sculpture Contest.
(Youth’s Nacional Institute)
Mexico City.
1982
Acquisition Prize / Maracaibo’s Biennial Honorable Mention
Maracaibo, Venezuela.
1994
Golden Laurel
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
1998
Goya’s Prize
Mexico’s Ibero-American Biennial
Domecq’s Cultural Institute
Mexico City.

Julio Chico: Creative life and freedom. Artist Profile.

The respect for his convictions, as well as his passion and delivery for the art have generated in him, an emphatic thought that derives in a consistent plastic creation and always innovative. Their creative talent embraces engraving, painting, sculpture and mural. This year, Julio Chico already celebrates a twenty-eight year-old uninterrupted trajectory.

He was born April 12 of 1947 in Mexico City and he discovered himself as an artist since the fourteen years old. He carried out their professional studies in the National School of Plastic arts of the UNAM from 1965 to 1970.

As a watchword, the works of his first stage (1977-1985) were postal very urban full with satire to the human poverty, sometimes to the economic one, others to the spiritual one. In that moment the color and the form in their graph recreated similar atmospheres to Goya's black engravings. The Personajes (Characters) collection gathered all the characteristics of this singular production.

Then, in the search of a development and conceptual growth he leaned toward the watercolor, elaborating very similar topics to the previous ones, but immediately he also approached the oil and he decided to incorporate feminine images to tinge the atmospheres. Símbolos(Symbols) were the great thematic exhibition that exemplified this period. The used formats reached up two meters or more, as the feminine figure was incorporated in a remarkable way.

In 1987 the evolution of master Julio Chico was radicalized and consolidated regarding to the color, the thematic and the format. In the new work everything was overturned toward the origin of our roots, the search of the prehispanic culture.

The symbolism of the deities of our ancestors appeared in his paintings, material that constituted the great exhibition: Homage to the Valley of Mexico, in 1993. In it were gathered oils of great format and stupendous coloring mainly, where the mexican idiosyncrasy is rescued. The volcanos of the most transparent region were fundamental characters of the work.

Not very later on, as answer to many queries about the syncretism of our great culture, in 1996 the series of acrylic and oils on cloth arose the denominated Almas Fracturadas (Fractured Souls), which were part of its first presence in the Museum of Art of Queretaro.

There, among brown, orange, blue, red and yellow colors fused in rough but at the same time vibrant textures, Julio Chico narrates the painful and complex process of the miscegenation, the insults of the colonization until the new civilization was formed, which doesn't still lose its prejudices and marginalization. He describes as no other artist the encounter of two cultures.

Then, with the security that can only give the balance among the technique, the thought and the feeling, the author's production go out from the canvas and the first plane to intrude in the sculpture. Generating then the collection Raíces(Roots).

His works in this discipline are imposing, monumental. La Defensa (The Defense), Dualidad y Mujer Águila (Duality) and (Woman Eagle), Quetzatcóatl Cósmico (Cosmic Quetzalcóatl), Chacmol, Coatlicue y Tláloc, are a real proof of it and they hardly bring us a little to the vigor and the rigor that Julio Chico prints to all his works.

Regarding this last, from their beginnings, he has always looked for to be a complete artist without caring the discipline or technique, he demands himself that all work has the same excellence level, but very especially he demands dignity in all the facets of its production. It is without a doubt, a committed artist.

Today with the maturity that characterize him and motivated by his "demons" as he calls them to its restlessness and creative thoughts, also endowed, for a great internal synergy, is in charge of of the Universe, of the forces that move it, those that move us.

The Planes of Euclides, the Space Geometry, the Graveness, the Light, the genesis and the death of the stars, the Black Holes, the Galaxies, the Cosmic Powder, the Bing Bang, in short everything that that intrigues and that at the same time fascinates the man, all they are the topic of this new sculpture-painting collection and work denominated graph Cosmovisión, 25 años luz (Cosmovisión, 25 years light), title that plays also with the words, in an intent to give the fair dimension of an artist whose life and freedom creators are a natural legacy, an unfading wind... witnesses and energy of Julio Chico.