page_title: José Julio Gaona
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: José Julio Gaona / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Rodolfo Aguirre Tinoco, José Julio Gaona Adame and Celia Santacruz at the opening of Muroart at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana
context_page_description: José Julio Gaona is a Mexican painter noted for his depictions of women and girls in strong lines and bright colors, usually doing ordinary activities. Member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and other professional organizations in Mexico, he has had over 135 exhibitions of his work in both Mexico and abroad.
context_section_description: He has had over 57 individual exhibitions and participated in over 87 collective exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad. His first two exhibitions were related to engraving, but since then all of his exhibitions have been of his painting.  His individual exhibitions have been in Mexico, especially Mexico City. These include the Galería Chapultepec (1971), Galería Plástica de México in Mexico City (1972), Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (1975, 1981),  Casa de Campanas in Cuernavaca, Galería de Arte Dr. Atl of the PRI in Mexico City (1977), Local Arte y Libros in Monterrey (1978), Oficinas Generales de Colegio de Bachilleres in Mexico City (1982), Galería  de Arte Castellanos in Matamoros, Tamaulipas (1988),  Borough hall of Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City (1989), Alianza francesa de Polanco, Metro Tacubaya and Galería Graciela Madrid, Hotel Nikko in Mexico City (1990), Galería de la Ciudad and Casa de la Cultura in Aguascalientes and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Morelia (1991), Galería de Turismo, Palacio Clavijero in Morelia and Galería Casa de Cultra in Zitácuaro, Michoacán (1992), 1993 Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura in San Andrés Tuxtla (1992), 1995 P.B. Torre Ejecutiva de al Secretaría  de Comercio y Fomento Industrial in Mexico City, Palacio Municipal in Aguascalientes and La Casa de Cantera in Mexico City (1995), the law school of UNAM (2001), and the Universidad Latina de México in Celaya (2011).
  His work has been seen in collective exhibitions internationally in various parts of the United States, especially Texas, Japan with the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and Israel with the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
  In 1969 he placed second at the IV Concurso Nacional de Pintura, Grabado y Escultura of the Instituto Nacional de la Juventud Mexicana. In 1970 placed first at the V Concurso Nacional de Pintura, Grabado y Escultura.
  He has created over 300 paintings. His works can be found in the General Motors de México Collection, the Museo de Mechoacanejo in Jalisco, the Arte del Club and the Galería de Arte and Libros in Monterrey. Works appear on back covers of Reader's Digest in Mexico and Puerto Rico in the 1980s.  His work also appears on a series of covers of the programs for performances of the Orquesta de Nuevo Mundo from 1998 to 2002.
  He was admitted as a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1972 and has been on its governing board since 2009. In 1984 he became a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Artes Plásticas (SOMART).  In 1989 he became a member of the Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de México (ARTAC-AIAP) .
caption: Gaona inaugurating exhibition of Rodolfo Aguirre Tinoco.
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