page_title: Arnulfo Mendoza
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Arnulfo Mendoza / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Paintings by Arnulfo Mendoza as part of the Mano Mágica exhibition at the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico
context_page_description: Arnulfo Mendoza Ruiz was an artist and weaver, who exhibited his work both in Mexico and abroad. Born in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, a well-known center for traditional Zapotec weaving, he became one of its best-known artisans, recognized as a “grandmaster” by the Fundación Cultural Bancomer. As director of La Mano Mágica gallery and with his former wife Mary Jane Gagnier, he also worked to promote Oaxacan folk art and handicrafts.
context_section_description: Mendoza was one of Teotitlán’s most famous weavers, whose works sold for up to thousands of dollars. He dyed his own silk and wool yarn and was particularly partial to the reds produced by the cochineal insect and sometimes used silver and gold thread. He had over fifty individual and collective exhibitions of his work, including in museums in New York, Madrid, Dallas, Paris, Los Angeles and Berlin. In 2003 his work was featured at the Weaving a Cultural Testimony exhibit at the Mexican Art Museum in Chicago . His work can be found in many private, and permanent collections of the Mexican Art Museum in Chicago, Tama Life 21 in Tokyo, Fundación Cultural Banamex, Waterloo Center for the Arts in Iowa and published in Cuento Mayas, Native Tradition (1982), Textiles de Oaxaca, Artes de México No.35 (1997) and Oaxaca Celebration (2005) .
  Just after graduating from UABJO, he became one of the founding members of the Taller (Workshop) Rufino Tamayo in 1974. In 1975 he supervised the production of tapestries of 25 artists in the United States to an exhibition at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles .
  In 1980 he traveled to Paris to paint for a year. From 1987 to 2010 he founded and directed the Arnulfo Mendoza Workshop, producing tapestries with traditional and contemporary designs.
  In 1993 he participated in an International Art Project in Japan, with two of his works acquired by the largest public art collection in Tokyo.
  From 2009 to 2010 he was the co-director of the La Mano Mágica Gallery, one of the most recognized in Oaxaca.
  In 1996, the Fundación Cultural Banamex named him of one their “grandmasters” of Mexican folk art (Grandes Maestros del Arte Popular Mexicano). In 2001 he was awarded the Chimalli de Oro by the El Imparcial newspaper.
caption: Display of works by the artist at the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico
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