Ángel Pahuamba

Cherán, Mexico, 1978.

He studied Visual Arts at Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes, dependent in the Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo from 1998 to 2002, where he obtained an honorable mention with his thesis; Curso de artes plásticas para niños de la comunidad indígena de Cherán “Entre colores, líneas y monitos”. In 2004 he took an Engraving course at Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes, Morelia, he attended the Engineering and Architecture on Paper workshop at Alfredo Zalce Museum of Contemporary Art, in 2012, and in 2003 he took the Fresco techniques workshop. In 2000 he attended the Woodcut Carving and the Stamping Workshop at Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes de Morelia. He was a teacher at Centro Cultural UNAM Morelia teaching the subjects of Techniques applied to illustration, Experimental watercolor, Anatomical drawing, Children’s plastic arts workshop, Drawing and Environment, and an Oil workshop. He is a subject teacher of the Workshop on principles, techniques, and materials in painting, in the Bachelor of Art and Design, of the ENES Campus UNAM Morelia, Michoacan. In 2020, he participated in the development of the project and curatorship of the exhibition “Realities and Destinations” for the 14th edition of the FEMSA International Art Biennial, Inestimable Azar, a biennial held in Morelia/Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. In 2021, he made at the Casa of Art and Culture in Paracho, Michoacán a mural “The Purépecha woman (hands that feed and strengthen)”. He published the book “Entre colores, líneas y monitos”. Application Guide for the children’s plastic arts program of the Secretaría de Cultura de Michoacán, First Edition in 2013.

He obtained the Acquisition Award for the artwork “Yellow Window” at the Encuentro Estatal de Pintura y Estampa as a Scholar of Sistema Estatal de Creadores in 2010. In 2009 his artworks “Camino Amarillo” and “Marcados” were selected at the Mariano Jimenez National Biennial of Chilpancingo, Guerrero. In 2005, with the artwork “Rojo” he was chosen in the selection of Concurso Estatal de Pintura y Estampa Efraín Vargas Maestros Michoacanos de la Casa de la Cultura de Morelia.

Throughout his career, he has had more than twenty individual exhibitions, among which stands out “El que por su gusto muere” in 2014 at the Centro Internacional de Artes Visuales en Morelia, Michoacán, as well as “Memorias del Tiempo” in 2018 at Casa Diana Gallery, in San Miguel de Allende and “Xiranhua” in Galería, Casa del Arte y la Cultura Purépecha, Cherán, Michoacán In 2022 he exhibits “Entre máscaras y puños” in the Vinatea Reynoso gallery in Arequipa Peru. He has been part of more than thirty collective exhibitions in Mexico, Chile, the United States, and Costa Rica. He has exhibited twice at CAM Galería, the first in 2020 with “Cherán Anapu” and the second in 2022 with “Los que aquí habitamos”. Among the international collective exhibitions in which he participated are Superstitions in 2017, vol. 1 and 2, and “Exposición itinerante”, both in the Chicago and New York editions.