About Gustavo Machado

Gustavo Machado Gallardo was born in Mexico City on May 19, 1947. His art is indisputably linked to the sensitivity and talent of a family with artistic talents. His father, Fernando Machado, who was a cartoonist and musician, encouraged his career in a decisive way.

During his training as a graphic designer at the Free School of Art and Advertising, Gustavo Machado discovered his aptitude for painting. His teachers invited him to take lessons with Jose Chavez Huacuja and Gustavo Alanis watercolor. Several years later started in the field of stamping and engraving as a student of Enrique Cattaneo.

His first exhibition took place in 1971 and since then has participated in over and thirty-forty group exhibitions individual.

For the quality of their work and the expressive power of visual proposal, Gustavo Machado has achieved a prominent place in the field of plastic arts in Mexico and abroad. Proof of this is the solo show "Allusions Interior" (1999) organized by the National Institute of Fine Arts through Study House Museum David Alfaro Siqueiros "The Tallera" in Cuernavaca, Morelos.

Among the awards that have been granted include the Medal of Lorenzo the Magnificent for fourth place in the painting category at the Third Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, in 2001. A year later won Honorable Mention in the First Triennale of Contemporary Art, Le Toit de la Grande Arche Paris-La Défense, in Paris, France. With its participation in both events, Gustavo Machado consolidated extraordinary acceptance of enjoying his work in Europe, renowned for colorful wealth and vigorous stroke.

In 2008 the Instituto de Cultura de Morelos performed a tribute to the artist with a retrospective of his work. For its part, the Museum David Alfaro Siqueiros "The workshops", an exhibition entitled "Dreams and metaphors" showcasing the latest production.

In 2009 invited by the Arts Coordination of the National Institute of Fine Arts the exhibition "To change ... Labyrinths" in the formal rooms, T1 and T2 from the international airport of Mexico City.

Gustavo Machado's work is part of several public and private collections in Mexico, the United States and Canada, and museums, galleries and private collections in several countries in South America, Europe, Africa and Australia. Committed to his own expressive sensitivity, at once sharp and refined, there is always room for humor, Gustavo Machado considers art as a means of understanding the world and to encourage the human capacity for dreaming new realities.