Rigoberto Duplás

Self-taught, Rigoberto Duplás is part of a generation of artists who emerged in the late 1990s in México City to break with the standards of academy and the pictorial tradition inherent in Mexican muralism. Through the use of conceptual art, installations and video, most of his work questions the relationship between violence and power, proposing interpretations from the languages of pop culture. Founder of MASO. From 1998 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2002 he directed La Vulcanizadora.

As a curator, his projects have been exhibited in countries such as Spain, United States, United Kingdom, México, Bolivia, Colombia and Perú.

His solo exhibitions include Mercan, Galería La Purísima, Barcelona (2022); La hoguera de las vanidades, Machete Galería, México City (2019); Los que mueren son los otros, MUCA-Campus, México City (2017); Requiem for Maria, Y Gallery, New York (2012), Postmiseria/Revolution is the New Black; Centro de las Artes, Monterrey (2012) and ChakrAK-47, LAXART, Los Angeles (2010). His works have been exhibited at Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco (2010), Galería de La Raza, San Francisco (2010), Revolver Galería, Lima (2009), La Central, Bogotá (2009), The Hayward Gallery, London (2008); as well as Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (2008 and 2010), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (2001) and La Panadería (1997) in México City.