Cuautitlán, State of Mexico, 1918 — Mexico City, 2014. Son of the Japanese Kenji Nishizawa and the Mexican María de Jesús Flores. He entered the Academia de San Carlos in 1942, where Julio Castellanos, Alfredo Zalce, José Chávez Morado and Antonio Rodríguez Luna were his teachers, and from 1955 to 2003 he taught at the UNAM’s Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. He first exhibited at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1951 and took part in the Tokyo and São Paulo biennials.
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His are the murals «El aire es vida» at the National Medical Centre, «Un canto a Martí», «La imagen del hombre» at the Ministry of Education and «La justicia» at the Supreme Court. He received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 1996, an honorary doctorate from the UNAM and Japan’s Order of the Sacred Treasure.
143 x 82 cm
Tempera on paper
64.5 x 137.5 cm
Saiboku
1980
62 x 87 cm
Oil on canvas
1972
56 x 76 cm
Mixograph
1978
46 x 60 cm
Saiboku
45 x 58 cm
Ink on paper
1971
37.5 x 65.5 cm
Saiboku
36 x 61 cm
Oil on canvas
33 x 46 cm
Sumi-e
31 x 46 cm
Saiboku
31.3 x 40.3 cm
Ink on shikishi paper
19 x 35 cm
Saiboku
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