Andrés Anza received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Monterey in 2014.

His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, among them Emerging Art Biennial and the UNAM Biennial, in which he received Honorable Mentions, stand out. His work has also been exhibited in different cities in the United States, Cape Town, Rome, Milan, Paris, Copenhagen, Madrid and Basel.

In May 2024 he won the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize and has been awarded by Fondazione Officine Saffi with the Guldagergaard Residency Prize. He currently lives and works in Monterrey.

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He uses ceramics as a medium to create amorphous living beings that seem to belong to a known ecosystem but are unrecognizable, because they are extracted from the artist’s abstract imaginary. Mexico, where Anza was born and completed is studies in art, has an ancient tradition of working in ceramics and he has drawn from this as he constructed his own original creative itinerary. His sculptures represent a joining of these inherited traditions and of the development of more recent practices and concepts.

The volume, the relief and the excessive texture require that the pieces always have different angles of appreciation; seeing them is an exercise in recognition and an invitation to understand what we do not know. The artist intends to provoke the question on the spectator of “What is this?”, make people question how they interact with the unknown.

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