Ángela Gurría Davó is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 sculptor. In 1973, she became the first female 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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Biography

Gurría studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (UNAM)

Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (UNAM)

The Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico is responsible for administering 11 humanism and science based majors; it has both Undergraduate and Graduate studies....

, and sculpture autodidactically after 1949. Afterwards she became student of Germán Cueto

Germán Cueto

Germán Gutiérrez Cueto was a Mexican painter, sculptor, puppet designer and puppeteer. He joined the Academia de Artes in 1968 and belonged to the founding members.- Biography :...

 and of Abraham González

Abraham González

Abraham González Casavantes was the provisional and constitutional governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua during the early period of the Mexican Revolution...

. She also practised in the studios of Mario Zamora and Manuel Montiel Blancas. She realized monumental sculptures, like the towers of the worker's monument "Monumento a los Trabajadores del Drenaje Profundo" in Tenayuca

Tenayuca

Tenayuca is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico. In the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology Tenayuca was a settlement on the former shoreline of the western arm of Lake Texcoco, located approximately 10km to the northwest of Tenochtitlan...

. Further important works were the "Homenaje a la ceiba" (homage to the Jerusalem cherry

Jerusalem cherry

Solanum pseudocapsicum is a nightshade species with poisonous fruit. It is commonly known as the Jerusalem Cherry, Madeira Winter Cherry, or, ambiguously, "winter cherry". These perennials can be grown decoratively as house plants, but in some areas of Australia the plant has become a weed.The...

; 1977), the "Espiral Serfin" (1980) and "El corazón mágico de Cutzamala" (the magic heart of Cutzamala

Cutzamala

Cutzamala may refer to:*Cutzamala de Pinzón, municipality and township in the state of Guerrero, Mexico*Cutzamala , a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site, a fortified garrison settlement in the Postclassic-era Tarascan state...

; 1987).

Awards

• 1960: Award of the Instituto de Arte de México
• 1967: 1st, III Biennale of sculpture
• 1980: Gold medal, Academia dell Arte del Lavoro, Italy