Francisco Toledo

Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, 1940 — Oaxaca de Juárez, 2019. At fourteen he entered Arturo García Bustos’s printmaking workshop, continued at the Oaxaca school of fine arts and at seventeen joined the INBA’s free printmaking workshop. In 1959 he exhibited at the Galería Antonio Souza and at the Fort Worth Art Center; in 1960 he travelled to Paris on a scholarship, worked in Stanley William Hayter’s studio and stayed in Europe until 1965.

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He worked in painting, printmaking, mixografía, ceramics, sculpture and textiles, with a repertoire of rabbits, scorpions, toads, bats and hybrid figures from Zapotec mythology. In Oaxaca he founded the IAGO, the Manuel Álvarez Bravo photographic centre, the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín and, in 1993, the Pro-Oax trust. He received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 1998 and the Prince Claus Award in 2000.