page_title: Nicolás Cuéllar
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolás Cuéllar / Career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Nicolas Cuellar pintando el muraldel skiline de New York city en el Hospital Metodista de Brooklyn
context_page_description: Jesús Nicolás Cuéllar was a Mexican painter who was best known for his surreal and magically themed work as well as his mentorship of the artistic community in his hometown of San Miguel de Allende. Some of his early work was noticed by Diego Rivera, who declared that the artist would be “a monster of painting.” Although he studied and exhibited abroad and his works can be found in collections in various parts of the world, Cuéllar dedicated most of his career in his studio in San Miguel de Allende.
context_section_description: Nicolás Cuéllar in his early career he also did work in making jewelry (common for artists in San Miguel de Allende), ceramics, sculpture, weavings and furniture making. In 1957, Diego Rivera saw some of Cuellar’s lithographs and exclaimed that he would be “a monster of painting.”.
  His first exhibition was in 1955 at the Instituto Allende. These were followed by other local exhibitions in Guanajuato (1956), El Patio (1957) and at the Zaguan Gallery (1958) in San Miguel de Allende.
  In 1961 he exhibited at the Art Center L’Ely See, El Greco Gallery, the University of Montreal and the French Library in Montreal, followed by  solo exhibitions at the Rotary Club in San Miguel de Allende and in Querétaro. In 1963 he exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York and in 1965 at the Gallery Mardi Gras in Mexico City.
  In the 1980s he exhibited at the  Saint Paul Episcopalian Church in San Miguel Allende (1981), the Instituto Allende (1983), the Casa de Cultura in Monterrey (1985), the San Miguel Library in San Miguel de Allende (1985), the Celaya Casa de Cultura (1986), Casa Fargo and Allende House Museum in San Miguel de Allende (1987) and Gallery 14 in San Miguel de Allende (1988).
  In the 1990s he exhibited at the Office Pack, Open House and Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende (1991), Gallery Eugenia in San Miguel de Allende (1992), Museo Diego Rivera in Guanajuato (1993), Allende Museum House, Rotary Club and Juan Leny Gallery in San Miguel de Allende (1995), Del Valle University in San Miguel de Allende (1996), and at the Sacred Stone Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  In the 2000s, the exhibited at the Instituto Allende and Cuellar Gallery in San Miguel de Allende (2001), the Casa de Cultura in Monterrey (2002,2004 and 2009),  AR Gallery in Monterrey (2008) and the Santa Fe Galleries in New Mexico (2008).
  Cuéllar created two murals during his career. The first was at the New York Methodist Hospital in 1963 and the second is at the Hermanos Aldama Elementary School in San Miguel de Allende, created in 1971 and restored in 2000.
  Cuéllar taught art at the Academy of San Carlos and at the Instituto Allende but later in his life he stopped working with institution, but continued to have private students.
  His works can be found in collections in Mexico, the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Australia, Central and South America. About 600 of his works have been catalogued more remain.
caption: Painting mural at the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963
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