Horacio Quiróz
(México, 1977)
Horacio Quiroz’s rich painterly depictions of the human body unravel a world of hybrid states and dynamic desires.
With a background in international advertising, the self-taught painter began his artistic career in 2013, and has since built up a body of work that straddles the line between the beautiful and grotesque, utopian and dystopian, the familiar and otherworldly. Informed by queer and ecological theory, Quiroz’s corporeal worlds reveal a cosmological consciousness that expands the relationship between gender, identity, bodies, and environments.
His highly detailed yet fantastical paintings radiate a queer optimism that’s paradoxically rooted in constant change.
Based in Mexico City, Quiroz (b. 1977) earned his Graphic Design BFA from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Three years into his career as a painter, Quiroz’s work was selected for the prestigious 15th Rufino Tamayo Biennial of Painting in Mexico. Quiroz quickly built up a reputation for mind-bending paintings revealing queer representations of the body, nonbinary understandings of gender, and dream states.
Quiroz has exhibited his work internationally in institutions, galleries, and fairs within Europe, the UK, China, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and the United States.
