Mexican artist born in the border of Reynosa with Hidalgo, Texas that has led a semi nomadic life. At first because of his father’s geological work, later because working within the context of art has allowed him to do so. This relationship to movement, has consciously and unconsciously influenced his way of understanding reality and has informed his capacity to use that experience as a tool to produce images, objects, spaces or gestures that propose new narratives.
He studied in the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda” (Mexico City) and after finishing the studies he spent a few years participating in the Mexican scene. As of 2013 an artist from the Arte Povera movement; Jannis Kounellis invited him to live and produce in Italy. Which gave him the opportunity to participate in the European scene with special emphasis on the Italian one. In 2019Calixto returned to the North of Mexico and was re-acclimated to working within this context.
He has exhibited individually and collectively in spaces such as the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de la Cd. De México, Museo de Arte de Sonora, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, Nave Generadores and Fototeca de Nuevo León, Fondazione MEMMO, Fondazione smART, Museo del Novecento in Naples, and the National Art Gallery of Tirana; as well as, in different public and private galleries in Mexico, the United States, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Croatia, Belgium, Slovenia, Colombia, Argentina and Greece.
In 2020 he obtained the FONCA´s grant “Contigo a la distancia”, in 2018 he was a finalist for the Talent Prize (INSIDEART) in Italy, in 2017 he participated in the XXIII ONUFRI Prize in Albania and did a residency with the Monitor Gallery / Antonello Colonna restort in Labico, Italy. During 2015 he was a resident of Casa Wabi and winner of the “Level 0 Prize” in Art Verona, Italy. In 2014, he was among the 10 finalists of the Art Verona award, selected in the XVI Biennal of Photography, I Biennal of Landscape, and I Biennal of the Borders, all of them, in México. In 2012 he was awarded with acquisition prize at the Biennial of Emerging Art in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2010 he was selected at the Salón de la Fotografía de Nuevo León, Mexico. In 2009 he was selected in the residency program of Fundación Marcelino Botín in Spain and won the Jóvenes Creadores grant from Tamaulipas, México and in 2008 he obtained an honorable mention at the XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Mexico. His works can be found in both public and private collections in Spain, the U.S., Italy and Mexico.
He currently lives and works in Monterrey, México.
biography
Mexican artist born in the border of Reynosa with Hidalgo, Texas that has led a semi nomadic life. At first because of his father’s geological work, later because working within the context of art has allowed him to do so. This relationship to movement, has consciously and unconsciously influenced his way of understanding reality and has informed his capacity to use that experience as a tool to produce images, objects, spaces or gestures that propose new narratives.
He studied in the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda” (Mexico City) and after finishing the studies he spent a few years participating in the Mexican scene. As of 2013 an artist from the Arte Povera movement; Jannis Kounellis invited him to live and produce in Italy. Which gave him the opportunity to participate in the European scene with special emphasis on the Italian one. In 2019 Calixto returned to the North of Mexico and was re-acclimated to working within this context.
He has exhibited individually and collectively in spaces such as the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de la Cd. De México, Museo de Arte de Sonora, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, Nave Generadores and Fototeca de Nuevo León, Fondazione MEMMO, Fondazione smART, Museo del Novecento in Naples, and the National Art Gallery of Tirana; as well as, in different public and private galleries in Mexico, the United States, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Croatia, Belgium, Slovenia, Colombia, Argentina and Greece.
In 2020 he obtained the FONCA´s grant “Contigo a la distancia”, in 2018 he was a finalist for the Talent Prize (INSIDEART) in Italy, in 2017 he participated in the XXIII ONUFRI Prize in Albania and did a residency with the Monitor Gallery / Antonello Colonna restort in Labico, Italy. During 2015 he was a resident of Casa Wabi and winner of the “Level 0 Prize” in Art Verona, Italy. In 2014, he was among the 10 finalists of the Art Verona award, selected in the XVI Biennal of Photography, I Biennal of Landscape, and I Biennal of the Borders, all of them, in México. In 2012 he was awarded with acquisition prize at the Biennial of Emerging Art in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2010 he was selected at the Salón de la Fotografía de Nuevo León, Mexico. In 2009 he was selected in the residency program of Fundación Marcelino Botín in Spain and won the Jóvenes Creadores grant from Tamaulipas, México and in 2008 he obtained an honorable mention at the XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Mexico. His works can be found in both public and private collections in Spain, the U.S., Italy and Mexico.
He currently lives and works in Monterrey, México.