Guillermo MEZA
1917–1997, Mexico
Biography
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Born in Mexico. Meza studied at the Escuela Nocturna de Arte para Trabajadores No 1 (Art Night School for Workers No. 1). Studied with Santos Balmori. Diego Rivera discovered Guillermo Meza in 1940; he arranged for Meza's first one man show which was held at the Galeria de Arte Mexicano. Meza participated in a large number of exhibits throughout México, the United States and Europe. His works are in the collections of the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes (México ), Museo de Arte Moderno (México), Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Art Institute (Chicago), the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, Stanford University Art Gallery (Palo Alto), the Museum of Modern Art (San Juan, Puerto Rico), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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