Gilberto Horacio Aceves Navarro (born September 24, 1931 in Mexico City

Mexico City

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) is a Mexican

Mexico

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 painter.

Biography

Aceves studied painting at "La Esmeralda"

Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"

La Esmeralda - National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking is a Mexican art school located in Mexico City....

 under Enrique Assad, Ignacio Aguirre

Ignacio Aguirre

Ignacio Aguirre was a Mexican painter and engraver.- Biography :Aguirre fought under Venustiano Carranza against Pancho Villa during the revolution from 1915 to 1917. Afterwards he worked as a sorter in several mines, and then he participated in the uprising of 1920, in favor of Álvaro Obregón...

 and Carlos Orozco Romero

Carlos Orozco Romero

Carlos Orozco Romero was a Mexican artist.Orozco was self-trained, and was awarded a scholarship for a study trip to Europe in 1921. In 1939 he achieved a Guggenheim Fellowship and travelled to New York City in 1941...

 after 1950. In 1952 he, worked along with David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros

José David Alfaro Siqueiros was a social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco that helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with works by Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and also a member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an...

, assisting him in the creation of the murals at the rector's office of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Aceves continued graphic art studies at "La Esmeralda" in 1953. From 1957 to 1961 he taught for the institute of Mexican-American cultural exchange in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 and, after 1971, at UNAM Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Since 1998 he has also taught in an atelier in the Colonia Roma

Colonia Roma

Colonia Roma is a colonia or neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City just west of the city’s historic center. The area was a very shallow part of Lake Texcoco, dotted with tiny islands and one small island village of Aztacalco during the pre-Hispanic period...

 in Mexico City. He won the National Prize of Science and Arts, Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 2003. In 2009 the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes held an extensive retrospective of his work. He is a member of the Academia de Artes

Academia de Artes

The Academia de Artes is the Mexican Academy of Arts founded 1967/1968 by CONACULTA for the promotion of Mexican art. Seat of the institution is the Museo Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico City...

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Aceves has participated in several national and international exhibitions and biennales.