Francisco Jose Guevara (Puebla

Puebla

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, 1978) is a Mexican

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 visual artist and curator

Curator

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, descended from Zapotec and Jewish families from Puebla, Zacatecas and Oaxaca. Guevara is especially known for creating edible sculptures, installations and performances exploring the symbolic meaning of food, the rituals of eating and human beings' ephemeral condition.

Guevara studied painting at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) and continued at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana

Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana

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 in Mexico City

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. He began his curating/arts management career with a year of law studies at the Escuela Libre de Derecho

Escuela Libre de Derecho

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 (ELD) in Mexico City following with a semester of International Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

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 (ITAM

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). He received a University Expert title in Management and Planning of Development Cooperation Projects in the Fields of Education, Science and Culture at the Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia (UNED) at Madrid, Spain, in coordination with the Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI). He has promoted several international artistic exchange programs with Australia

Australia

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, Brazil

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, Ecuador

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, Hong Kong

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, Mexico

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, Paraguay

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, Spain

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 and the USA.

As an artist he has had 16 solo shows and participated in multiple collective exhibits including the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City and the 10th Mexican Festival in Australia. His work can be found in important private and public collections such as: Colección Jumex

Colección Jumex

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, Museo Dolores Olmedo

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María de los Dolores Olmedo y Patiño Suarez was a Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician, better known for her friendship with Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera; she appeared on some of his paintings...

 Patiño :es:Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño in Mexico City, Lila Downs

Lila Downs

Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...

 Collection Mexico, Ministry of Culture of Bolivia, Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek

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 Collection USA, and the Margrethe II Collection Denmark, among others.

In 2007 & 2008 the project he curated Campo Expandido VIII with Raymundo Sesma was awarded the AIA

American Institute of Architects

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New Mexico Honor Award and the AIA Albuquerque Honor Award.

As of 2009, Guevara is the co-founder and Executive Director of Arquetopia, a non-profit conservatory and residency program for art and music in Puebla, Mexico.

External links

• http://www.franciscoguevara.com
• http://www.arquetopia.org
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arquetopia/176207549703