Herminio Feliciano Peña Aguilera (b. Silao

Silao

Silao is a city in the west-central part of the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. It is the seat of the municipio with the same name. As of the 2005 census, the city had a population of 147,123, making it the seventh-largest community in the state...

, April 25, 1915 – May 16, 1982) was a Mexican

Mexico

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 painter, sculptor and engraver.

Biography

Peña moved to Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 in 1926, where he visited the open air painting school of Tlalpan

Tlalpan

Tlalpan is one of the sixteen administrative boroughs of the Federal District of Mexico City. It is the largest borough, with over eighty percent under conservation as forest and other ecologically sensitive area. The rest, almost all of it on the northern edge, has been urban since the mid 20th...

 after 1927. Due to a scholarship in 1933, he completed his studies of sculpture and engraving, and got the chance to exhibit some of his works in the art hall of the Secretaría de Educación Pública

Secretaría de Educación Pública

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. In 1937 he painted together with José Chávez Morado

José Chávez Morado

José Chávez Morado was a Mexican painter and sculptor.- Biography :Morado was born in Silao, near the city of Guanajuato, where Diego Rivera was born, and like Rivera he is a well known and highly regarded painter and sculptor who became most famous for the murals he painted in Mexico in the first...

 and Francisco Gutiérrez Carreola a mural at the Escuela Normal

Normal school

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 in Xalapa

Xalapa

Xalapa-Enríquez, commonly Xalapa or Jalapa, is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the year 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which it serves as municipal seat reported a population of...

. Peña was member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios

Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios

The Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios was a Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers. It was established in the house of its first president Leopoldo Méndez in 1933 in due to the disbanded "Sindicato de Trabajadores Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores" , and was defined as...

, founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

The Salón de la Plástica Mexicana is an art museum of plastic arts, which was founded by a group of notable artists on November 16, 1949. Today the SPM is located in the Calle de Colima 196 in the Colonia Roma and in the Donceles 99 in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City...

and of the Mexican engravers' association Sociedad Mexicana de Grabadores. He was multiple awarded.