Fabrica La Aurora was a textile factory for over 90 years. Today, this century old building has been reborn as an art and design center; While maintaining its original facade abd structure, large open areas once filled with spindles and looms for making thread and weaving cloth have been transformed into some of the most outstanding art studios and galleries, antique showrooms, and interior design an specilty shops in San Miguel de Allende.
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Santiago Corral was born in Mexico City in 1964. His father is from Spain and his mother from Mexico. He is a self taught artist and a member of a family of talented realist painters. Santiago has an extensive resume as he has exhibited in important museums and galeries both Nationally and Internationally and has won important awards. He currently resides in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
ARTIST'S RESUME:
INDIVIDUAL SHOWS:
2007 -Galeria Le Noir, SMA, Mexico 2006 -Galeria Indigo, SMA, Mexico -Galeria Orion Arte Contemporaneo, Oaxaca, Mexico 2005 -Galeria Indigo SMA, Gto., Mexico 2004 -Galeria Indigo, Oaxaca, Mexico -Galeria Indigo, Oaxaca, Mexico -Museo de la Ciudad de Qto., Mexico 2003 -Galeria Indigo, SMA, Mexico -Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Casa Siglo XIX, Chihuahua, Mexico -Museo Diego Rivera, Gto., Mexico 2002 -QCC Art Gallery, "CUNY" Queensborough Community College, Queens New York, USA -Centro Cultural El Nigromante (INBA) SMA, Mexico 2001 -Galeria Indigo, Oaxaca, Mexico -Kunsthaus, Santa Fe, Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, SMA, Mexico 1996 -Casa Tammy, Jerusalem, Israel -Galeria Imagen-Arte, Mexico City
GROUP SHOWS:
2006 -Galeria Le Noir: "Mundos", SMA, Gto., Mexico -Galeria Le Noir: "Micro Cosmos", SMA, Gto., Mexico -Galeria Le Noir, SMA, Mexico -Galeria Big Generator, SMA, Gto., Mexico 2004 -XIII Bienal de dibujo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City -Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo. Aug.-Oct., 2004 -Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca. Dec. 2004 2005 -Museo de Arte de Sinaloa. March-April. -Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes. May-June. -Museo de Arte de Queretaro. July-Sept. -Espacio Cultural Metropolitano. Tamaulipas, Mexico. Octo. 2006 -Museo del Carmen, Mexico City 2003 -Homenaje a Rodolfo Nieto, Xilografias de Nieto y otros artistas oaxaquenos. -Galeria Arte 3, Leon, Gto., Mexico. -Museo Casa de las Monas, Leon, Mexico. -Museo Olga Costa, Gto., Mexico. 2002 -Museo Allende, SMA, Mexico. -William Whipple Art Gallery, Southwest State University, Minnesota,USA -Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Aguascalientes, Mexico. -Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Mexico -Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NY, USA -Kings Fine Arts Gallery, NY, USA -Tercera Subasta Anual "Joseph Papp Children's humanitarian Fund", NY, USA -Estampa 2002, Obra Grafica en el Centro Cultural El Nigromante (INBA) SMA, Mexico. -American Society of Mexico, Mexico City. -Centro Cultural El Nigromante (INBA), SMA, Mexico. 2001 -Galeria Arte 3, Leon, Mexico 2000 -Tatro Angela Peralta, SMA, Gto., Mexico 1998 -Subasta "Va por Chiapas" en la Galeria Casa Rosada, SMA, Gto., Mexico 1996 -Galeria Praxis: "En el lugar de la Mancha" Mexico City -Subasta Anual de la Cruz Roja, Monterrey, NL., Mexico.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: 2004 -Selected for the Bienal Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City 2002 -Scholarship by the Instituto Estatal de Cultura de Guanajuato (creadres con trayectoria). 2001 -Selected for the Gran Premio Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico. 2000 -Honoray Mention Gran Premio de Guadalajara, Mexico.
MUSEUMS & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
-Museo de la Ciudad de Queretaro -Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Gto., Mexico -Museo Casa Siglo XIX, Chihuahua, Mexico -Museo del Queensborough Community College, NY, USA -Kings Fine Arts, NY, USA -Rexnord of Mexico, Qto., Mexico -Aesculap Medici, Tuttlingen, Germany -El Nervion, Mexico City -Talleres Estrella, Toluca, Mexico -Miller Pipeline of Mexico, Qto., Mexico
EDITORIALS: 2004 -Diario Reforma, Mexico City Publicacion del texto de Raquel Tibol para la XII Bienal Rufino Tamayo. -Diario de Queretaro, Mexico. -Diario AM of Queretaro, Mexico. 2003 -The Herald News, Chihuahua, Mexico. -El Correo, Guanajuato, Mexico. -Enciclopedia de artistas Latinoamericanos editado por el Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY, USA. 2002 -El Tiempo, Oaxaca, Mexico -El Independiente, SMA, Mexico -Art Notes, NY, USA 1994 -Ovaciones, Mexico City -The Herald News of Mexico City