1969–
Cisco Jiménez (b. 1969) is a Mexican artist from Cuernavaca, Morelos, whose work spans painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and ceramics. He trained at the Instituto Regional de Bellas Artes in Cuernavaca and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, and in 1991 at the Art Students League of New York with Bruce Dorfman. As a young man he also drew political cartoons for a local newspaper. He lives and works in Cuernavaca.
He has made clay boomboxes with Indigenous artisans from San Agustín Oapan, Guerrero, and with women artisans from Cuentepec, Morelos. Uriarte Talavera, a Puebla workshop founded in 1824, invited him and other artists to make work with its artisans for El cinco de mayo de 1862: Uriarte Talavera contemporánea, which opened at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City in May 2012. La Jornada singled out a set of his “demonios” (demons) among the pieces.
In 2001 he collaborated with Jimmie Durham at the 49th Venice Biennale. In 2018 his painting Doble arqueología won one of the three acquisition prizes at the XVIII Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, which brought it into the collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca. In 2021 the Museo Amparo in Puebla presented his solo exhibition Anatómica, curated by Tobias Ostrander. In October 2023 La Tallera in Cuernavaca opened Disrupción eruptiva, a thirty-year retrospective for which he filled the museum's main hall with the furniture and objects of his house and studio. In September 2024 Ruiz-Healy Art opened Paradojas en Frecuencia Modulada at its New York gallery, his second solo exhibition with the gallery, and from June to August 2025 its San Antonio gallery included him in the group show Heirloom. In a post of July 2026, Uriarte Talavera invited visitors to Demonios Estrombóticos y Coléricos, an exhibition of his previously unseen works and pieces made with the workshop, at its store in Polanco, Mexico City.
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