Moisés Ortiz (Mexico City, 1981)

Ortiz moves between silence and surface.

Armed with an MFA in Visual Art from UNAM’s Faculty of Arts and Design, his work is less a product of training than of tension—between control and collapse, clarity and critique. From an early age, a relentless internal scrutiny shaped his relationship with image-making, compelling him to master the technical language of his medium while quietly dismantling its rules.

After graduation, he disappeared.

Ten years of deliberate absence—a self-imposed exodus—offered space to unravel and rewire his practice. Design, with its systems and grids, became a parallel universe. Emotion and concept became twin engines. What emerged was not a return, but a re-entry: slower, sharper, stranger.

Ortiz paints in conversation with ghosts. Rivera, Siqueiros—their walls speak, and he listens. But his is a different rhythm, fractured by Cubist echoes and bent through the lens of contemporary theory. UNAM taught him how to deconstruct aesthetics; he chose to rebuild them in fragments, informed by critical thought and radical form.

What remains is a practice that resists stasis. An evolving inquiry, stretched across time and canvas. A gesture repeated until it ruptures.