Mexican-Italian Painter “A mexican painter, Nuria Montoya, since ’98 live in Italy, prefer large formats and many panels (go to “azebrato” or “il nodo” paint), use discard material, pollutant, refuse collection and dyestuff to make her paintings (go to “esqueletos” or “hallazgos” paint); she works with these ingredients to help ecosystem, to do one’s bit for clean and hanging it to wall to watch it.  For Montoya, all we make to express ourselves, if made with passion, with concession and arduous analyses is art.   We all are art when we are ourselves”.“I live in Italy since 1998.I studied painting at the Art Academy of Durango in Mexico. I am graphic designer and I do the professional painter since i arrives in Italy. In this 6 years  of artistic activity I have learned so many things and also i had great art satisfactions. I have appeared approximately in 60 collective exhibitions and 3 Individual ones. I like to make great format an colorful paintings.  My pictures are a direct expression of my intern serpents”. 

Nuria Montoya

CURRICULUM VITAE 

NURIA CELENA MONTOYA SALINAS  (O2/03/68)     

LICENSE:

Graphic Design

• 1986-90 * ISCYTAC, Institute, Gomez Palacio, Dgo., Mx.,
• COURSES:1993 * Laboratory multidisciplinary (Dgo. Mex.)
• 1994 * Summer Teacher Workshop Photography (Dallas, Tx., USA)
• 1994 * Art History, UJED, (Dgo. Mex.)
• 1995 * gravure (Dgo. Mex.)
• 1995 * experimental drawing (Gomez Palacio, Mex.)
• 2000 * Course of gravure (Cagliari)
• 1994-96 * Painting, sculpture and  art-crafts, EPEA, (Dgo., Mx)TEACHES
• 1992-94 * Technique Design (1a., 2a., e 3a. media); 1993 Graphic design representative techniques;  1994, art-drawing;
• 1995 * graphic design; 1996 * Photography;
• 1997 * painting for children (4-8years) 

MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS 

• 1989 * Argos, Gallery, Torreon, Coah, MEXICO.
• 1994 * Casa de la Cultura (art-house), Durango, MEXICO.
• 1995-99 * Yolotl, 1st., 2nd, 3th, 4th., 5th. Macro-exhibition, UJED, Dgo., MEXICO.
• 2000 * “A PASSO DI DANZA” Dance & Teathre Academy, Cagliari, ITALY
• 2000 * “ENLACES” Simplician Gallery, Olbia (SS), ITALY
• 2000 * “APPARE QUANDO PUO’” Museum: Cittadella dei Musei, Cagliari, ITALY
• 2000 * “FANDONIE” Gennamaria Museum, Villanovaforru (CA), ITALY
• 2000 * Medina Dakar, Senegal
• 2002 * Villanovaforru Civic Museum (CA), ITALY 
• 2002 * Ethnic music manifestation and art in Sardinian, EMMAS, Naval Port, Olbia (SS), ITALY
• 2003 * LIBERA UNA ESPERANZA, bidding exhibit, Culture House, Durango, MEXICO.
• 2003 * EMMAS, Ethnic music manifestation and art in Sardinian, Costa Smeralda Airport, (SS), ITALY
• 2004 * Modern Visions, Primo Piano Living-Gallery, Lecce, ITALY
• 2004 * “Durango”, exhibition to Las Vegas, USA
• 2005 * collective art “all colors of Liguria”, Pozzo Garita and Palazzo Ducale, Genove, ITALY
• 2005 * collective “Vientos de paz”, Arcobaleno Membership, Expositive Center I.S.O.L.A, CA, ITALY
• 2005 * collective NET GALLERY, “Disconnected of Exibart”, Florence, ITALY 
• 2006 * collective in Lecce, “BAROQUE BLU”, Primo Piano LivingGallery, ITALY 
• 2006 * 4a. Internat. Islamic World Contemporary Painting Biennal; Artistic and Cultural InstitituteSABA, Tehran, IRAN 
• 2007 * “Effimero meraviglioso”, Contemporary Art international Exhibition, Primo Piano LivinGallery,Lecce, ITALIA; 
• 2007 * Visual Art Project, “21/12/2012”, La Pigna, Gallery, Roma, ITALIA 2008 february, “Dolmen Dali” exhibition, Madrid, SPAIN  

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS 

• 2002, nov. Gallery La Bacheca, Cagliari, ITALIA
• 2003, mar. IMAC, Culture and art Institute of Durango, MEXICO.
• 2003, june ARS Gallery, Olbia (SS), ITALIA
• 2007, mar. Casa Canonico Putzu, collective of singles, Selargius, CA, ITALIA 

Nuria Celena Montoya Salinas è nata il 2 marzo 1968 in Messico, risiede in Sardegna dal 1998. Nel 1990 consegue la laurea in Grafica pubblicitaria presso lo Iscytac di Gomez Palacio (Messico). Ha partecipato a diversi corsi, tra cui i più importanti il laboratorio multidisciplinare per insegnanti all’Università José Vasconcelos de Durango (1993); Summer Teacher Workshop Photography presso l’Art Institute of Dallas (1994); Storia dell’arte, Università Juarez de Durango (1994); Corso d’incisione, Poliart Studio di Cagliari (2000); Corso di pittura, scultura ed inscisione nella Accademia di Pittura, Scultura ed Incisione dell’Università Juarez di Durango (1994-19996). Ha insegnato le discipline di disegno tecnico, grafica pubblicitaria e pittura per ragazzi in formazione da 13 a 18 anni; il corso di fotografia per adulti e l’atelier di sperimentazione grafica per bambini da 4 a 8 anni in Messico e per 10 anni ha lavorato negli stessi campi. Negli anni 2006-2007 ha svolto lezioni di pittura e disegno per la scuola elementare di Golfo Aranci

ANOTHER PROJECTS

(MAIL ART, ART BOOK, HOMAGES, BENEFACTION…) 

• sett. 2002 * “40 anni di mail art”, N.Y. CorresponDance School, Bologna, ITAjul.
• 2002 * mail art, “Pancho Villa homage”, Casa de la Cultura, Durango, MXdec.
• 2002 * Christmas Mail, Galleria Ripustuk, FINLANDIAsett.
• 2003 * mail art, “Porto Alegro in foco”, Pinacoteca Barao, Porto Alegre, BRASILott.
• 2003 * LIBERA UNA ESPERANZA, sale-exhibition, Casa de la Cultura, Durango, MX.ott.
• 2003 * mail art, “Oro negro”, Taller del Sol, Tarragona, SPAGNAnov.
• 2003 * mail art, “Acqua”, Coop, Palazzo della Provincia di Savona, ITAjan.
• 2004 * mail art, “Frida”, Villa Ida, Trezzano Rosa, (MI), ITAjun.
• 2004 * mail art “mostriamo il mestruo”, MUM, Museum of menstruation, USAjuly
• 2004, “draw_drawing” (part of London Biennale), Gallery 32, Londra, ENGLAND
• 2004 * mail art “watch project”, Sinasi Gunes, Istanbul, TURKEY
• 2004 * art book, “Scrigni lunari”, intervention C. Renglia’s poetry book, Verbania, ITAJan.
• 2005, mail art “Womanish art”, Expò Center, Olbia (SS), ItalyJul.
• 2005, Mail art “Kostia”, Palkane Heritage Society, FINLANDIAAgo.
• 2005, mail art, “what is mail art?, Administration Communale Lorentzweiler, LUXEMBURGSept.
• 2005, art book, Villa Maria, Quiliano, Savona, Italyoct.
• 2005, Scents:Locks:Kisses, mail art, Z33 Gallery, BELGIUM* net art ¨dictator death¨, date: when Augusto Pinochet dead, CHILE* mail art “depopulation”, Zaragoza, Spainmar
• 2006, International mail art project “the hill”, Atrebates Gallery, Dozza, BO, Italy
• 2006 * Four International Biennial of the Islamic World Contemporary Painting at Saba Cultural and Artistic Institute, Tehran, IRAN
• 2006 * “Intercultural III”, mail art project, Alcalà de Xivert, Spagna
• 2007 * “500 and one”, mail art project, Atrebates Gallery, Dozza, ITAaug. MEXICO, mail art, Puerta del Viento Gallery, Durango, Dgo., MEX.Dec. precolombine dance, drawing, painting and mail art “Rituali”, Olbia, ITALIA2008 “Metamorfosi di un libro”, art-book itinerant, Verbania, Lecce, ITALIA

Actively working on fresh paint (mural) in mexico and italy.  

Participated in bidding exhibits:in favor to children native in Chiapas, MX.;In favor of the graphic design association of Durango;against cancer tumors, Angel Zarraga Museum of Durango, Mx.;”Libera una esperanza”, fight for the liberation of women in durango´s city jail, Culture House 

Founder of artists group of Durango “YOLOTL” (mean “heart”, in nahuatl language) 

Currently living and working in olbia city, Italy

Indirizzi:

Camino de los Ibis 211-2 Col. San Jemo Monterrey, N.L. MEXICO 

Via Modena 150 07026 Olbia (SS) ITALIA 

E-mail: nuria.montoya@yolotl.org

Web: www.yolotl.org/nuria