Javier Manrique is an artist that works in different mediums.
Manrique lives and works between the United States and Mexico, he maintains contact with different printmaking workshops and painting studios in both countries to creative projects, residencies and teaching workshops. His main residence is at Project Artaud, a community of artists in the city of San Francisco. In 2023 Manrique presented Nunca me hagan eso, a solo show at the Casa de la Cultura de Azcapotzalco in Mexico City. Also in 2023 he presented Paint & Sound, an artist residence of four days at the Four Chicken Gallery in San Francisco; in which invited artists would produce ambient sounds while Manrique created several paintings on site. Between 2019 and 2023 he participated on various annual projects Arte, Billete, maculatura, refines diseño, sponsored by the Bank of Mexico. During 2022 Manrique exhibited at the Sin Titulo Gallery in San Francisco, at the Roundweather Gallery and the Gray Loft Gallery, both in Oakland California and at the Galería Arroyo de la Plata in Zacatecas, México. Studios on the Park in Paso Robles, California organized a retrospective of Manrique’s diverse artworks in 2020. That same year with the support of the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), placed an on-line solo virtual exhibit, Percepción Cromática, focused on recent paintings. In 2022 and 2023 Manrique taught a fresco-painting workshop at La Ceiba Grafica in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico. In November of 2012 he was an artist resident at the De Young Museum in San Francisco with his project Frescomania: Bay Area and Beyond; a close observation of the history and technical aspects of fresco painting. Manrique has shown in solo shows in public and private institutions like the Fundación Sebastián in Mexico City, the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Galería Arroyo de la Plata in Zacatecas Mexico, the Alliance Francaise in San Francisco California, the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles California, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Aguascalientes Mexico, the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, the Instituto de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana among others. Originally from Tijuana, he studied printmaking at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking, La Esmeralda, in Mexico City. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he would subsequently teach. |
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