Francisco Toledo was born in 1940 in Oaxaca, Mexico. He attended the School of Fine Arts in his native city, then the Superior Center of Applied Arts of the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied graphic arts with Silva Santamaria. His social and cultural concerns led to his participation in the creation of the Art Library of the Oaxaca Institute of Graphic Arts. He also helped found the Oaxaca Museum of Contemporary Art, a library for the blind, a photography center and...

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  Francisco Toledo was born in 1940 in Oaxaca, Mexico. He attended the School of Fine Arts in his native city, then the Superior Center of Applied Arts of the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied graphic arts with Silva Santamaria. His social and cultural concerns led to his participation in the creation of the Art Library of the Oaxaca Institute of Graphic Arts. He also helped found the Oaxaca Museum of Contemporary Art, a library for the blind, a photography center and the Eduardo Mata Music Library. Francisco Toledo expresses his art through various media: pottery, ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, graphic art (engraving and lithography) and painting. In Paris, he worked for a time at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 (1965). Solo exhibitions have been held in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, the UK, Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden, the USA and many other countries. He is represented in major public and private collections worldwide. He has received numerous awards, both for his social commitment and for his art, which is imbued with his Mexican historical and mythological heritage.

  
  

  

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