Gilberto Aceves Navarro

Gilberto Aceves Navarro was a Mexican painter and sculptor and a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and Academy of San Carlos. He was one of the most important exponents of abstract expressionism in Mexico and a collaborator of Siqueiros. He studied at La Esmeralda in 1950 and worked as an assistant to Siqueiros in 1952. He was expelled from the school in 1953 and continued his studies in engraving. He taught at various institutions in Mexico and the United States. He had more than 200 individual exhibits of his work, with his murals found in Mexico, Japan and the United States. He received numerous awards for his work, including the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 2003. He died of a pulmonary disease in 2019 at the age of 88.