Marcos González "Foreman" was born in CDMX and studied a degree in Visual Arts at UNAM. He specialized in the discipline of painting. He attended the contemporary painting production workshop with the teacher Francisco Castro Leñero and recently was part of the Diploma in Production and Contemporary Languages at the San Agustín Center for the Arts, Etla, Oaxaca. It has various individual exhibitions, the most recent "Mucho arte poco diversion"; as well as various group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad.
Manager and founder of independent projects, he currently coordinates the Talleres Fresno 301 project, a multidisciplinary artistic production space in CDMX. His work addresses the genre of landscape in painting, as a social, cultural and political memory device. Based on the technical and formal eclecticism of his compositions, he explores the discursive relationships of painting within the contemporary visual language. Offering a personal view of his environment and his plastic, conceptual and visual questions.
INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS 2022 Much art little fun, Lazylizard, CDMX, Mexico. 2021 When the river sounds... Cumbia carries, La Nao Galería, CDMX, Mexico. 2020 All things must be named, Estudio Marte, CDMX, Mexico. 2019 CoSMoS, Skirtless, CDMX, Mexico. Rra rra rra, Bodet Library, CDMX, Mexico. 2014 Anonymous City, Pictorial Operations Center, CDMX. Mexico. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Events on the horizon, El Palmar, CDMX, Mexico. CRATER Parallel Project, Secret Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, México. 2022 A Fresno in El Palmar, El Palmar, CDMX, Mexico. The image as an object, NOOX, CDMX, Mexico. EQUIS Sample of results of the Tenth Diploma in Visual Arts, Center for the Arts of San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico. Thresholds and penumbrals, La Calera, Oaxaca, Mexico. 2021 Panorama, Lanao Gallery, CDMX, Mexico. Thousand and Pico, Acapulco 62, CDMX, Mexico. 2020 Creation in Movement Young Creators 2019 - 2020, Image Center, CDMX, Mexico. Here it is not Russia, USSR Rome, CDMX, Mexico. 2019 XXXIX National Meeting of Young Art, Gallery of the City of the House of Culture "Victor Sandoval", Aguascalientes, Mexico. New skin for an old ceremony, Karen Huber Gallery, CDMX, Mexico. 2018 Parameter 03 (LUMEN), Museum of Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico. Creation in Movement Young Creators 2017-2018, Center for the Arts of San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico. 2017 The neighborhoods that support us, Bodet Librería y Bistró, CDMX, Mexico. The Casa de Cultura San Rafael It´s coming to London, Chalton Gallery, London, UK. 2016 Parameter (LUMEN), 2nd edition, Museum of Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico. Shared Time, Studio 221, CDMX, Mexico. 2014 Obra Negra, Pictorial Operations Center, CDMX, Mexico. 2013 Passion, Motolinia del Pedregal A.C. University, CDMX, Mexico. 2012 Moments, Cultural Center of the Journalist, CDMX, Mexico. Playful, Carranza Cultural Center, CDMX, Mexico. ENAP Print College Exhibition, Luis Nishizawa Gallery, CDMX, Mexico. SCHOLARSHIPS AND RECOGNITIONS 2022 Member of the Young Creators program, FONCA, issue 2022 - 2023. 2019 Selection at the XXXIX National Meeting of Young Art, Aguascalientes. Member of the Young Creators Program, FONCA, issue 2019 - 2020. 2018 Member of the Young Creators Program, FONCA, issue 2017 - 2018. OTHER PROJECTS 2023 Participant in the Bahidorá Carnival Art Circuit 2021 Participant of the 2021 Festivals and Community Interventions program, Secretary of Culture of Mexico City. 2019 Participant of the 2019 Festivals and Community Interventions program, Secretary of Culture of Mexico City. Founder of the Talleres Fresno 301 project, CDMX, Mexico. 2017 Project tutor for the Estancias Creativas scholarship from AMEXCID. 2016 Founding member of the First Textile Meeting in Santa María la Ribera, Mexico City. 2014 Founding member of the CENTRO DE OPERACIONES PICTORICAS in Mexico City. Founding member of EMERGING PAINTING HAMSTERS.