Iván Trueta Mexican, b. 1969

Lives and worksin Mexico City 

Iván Trueta is an artist who works mainly with processes of drawing, painting and his expanded relationship with space. His work reflectes on the everydayness and normalization of violence, tragedy and misfortune in the contemporary context, using irony and absurdity as critical devices. In recent years he has addressed the symbolic charge and dislocated temporalities of architectural space in the experience of inhabiting, as well as the manifestation of historical processes in everyday space. From drawing and the pictorial process Trueta investigates this dislocated temporality, this enclosure of gestures, traces, vestiges and steles, stagnant in a present that has no other recourse than to remove the unspeakable remains of the past. In the words of Virgi- nia Roy: “Trueta’s work is presented as a chronography in its literal definition, that is, the graphic description of the multiple aspects of a time (...) In his obsession to apprehend it, time is suspended and questioned in the artist’s drawings”. 

Iván Trueta’s work has been widely exhibited individually and collectively in spaces such as the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América, Centro de Residencias e Investigación Artisticas (CRIA) in Ensenada, Palazzo Cinni in Venice, among others. He has exhibited in international contemporary art fairs in Brazil, Argentina, United States and Mexico. 

His work is part of various public and private collections, including the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), the Museo del Banco de México, the Casa Redonda Museo Chihuahuense de Arte Contemporáneo, The Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice; the Lumen Collection and the Fundación Gruber Jez, A.C., among others. 

He has been a fellow of the Jóvenes Creadores program between 2003- 2004 and 2009-2010, and member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte del FONCA (emissions 2014 and 2020).