Alfredo Castaneda (1938-2010): Untitled

Alfredo Castaneda (1938-2010): Untitled

Pencil and ink with gouache highlights on paper, signed 'Casteneda' and dated lower right 80

Size 20 x 20 cm

Alfredo Castañeda was born in Mexico City in 1938. He received a degree in architecture from the University of Mexico in 1964 and in 1969 he had his first one-man show at the Galería de Arte Mexicano, the gallery which represents him worldwide outside of the U.S. His surrealist imagery intrigues viewers and his works are included in private collections in Mexico and Latin America, the United States, Europe and Japan. In 1983 he had his first individual show in the United States at Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art and has been represented by MAM/FA in the U.S. since then. A retrospective of his work was held at the Monterrey (Mexico) Museum in 1990 and a monograph celebrating twenty years of work was published in the same year. Since then he has had a number of exhibitions in the U.S. and Latin America which are detailed below. Castañeda currently lives in Madrid, where he and his family own and run a highly successful Mexican restaurant.