Rubén Leyva (Oaxaca, 1953). One of the most prolific young painters of his generation. He studied at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University (1972-1975) and, in the 1990s, his interest in ceramics led him to Kathy McFadden's Ceramics Workshop in Portland, Oregon. A selection of his individual exhibitions give an account of his time at the Museum of Anthropology and History of Oaxaca and at the "Exhibition of Mexican Painters" in Hamburg (1981). He exhibits at the French Institute of Latin America, in Mexico City (1984), is presented at the Acevedo Art Gallery in San Diego, California and at the Book Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin. He exhibits at Studio AAA, in San Francisco, Cal. and "Fragmentos de mis sueños" is presented at Galería Vale, in Mexico City (1992). He participates in the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations with an individual exhibition, in New York (1995). “Solar Earth”, an itinerant show, travels to three cities in Texas (1995-96). “To Play or not to Play” opens at Grosvenor Place Gallery, at the European Academy for the Arts in London (1998). Lastly, in 2004 he presented in Germany his Work entitled "Construction of Dreams and Desires Assemblies" at the Haus Samson Gallery and in 2007 in Guantánamo, Cuba the presentation of the Book and graphics "Chronicles of a Player", Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba . Leyva has participated in more than forty collective exhibitions, in little more than a decade, among the distinctions received are the First Prize (Acquisition Award) for Plastic Arts, Oaxaca City, in 1995, in addition to the fact that his work was selected for the commemorative edition of the fiftieth anniversary of the UN.