Sergio Sánchez Santamaría Print Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-2019-005
Scope and Content
Relief print (22 x 15 inches) depicting an anthropomorphized canine drinking mezcal.
Dates
- 2017, 2018, undated
Language of Materials
Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
Biography
Sergio Sánchez Santamaría, is a print maker, muralist and illustrator born in Tlayacapán, Morelos in 1976. He studied at the “La Esmeralda”, Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura, y Grabado, in Mexico City. Among his teachers were Alberto Beltrán, Francisco Moreno Capdevila and Adolfo Mexiac. A master of wood and lino cuts, mezzotint and lithography, he works in the tradition of José Guadalupe Posada and Leopoldo Méndez, but with a modern sensibility and contemporary take on the customs, politics, and people of Mexico.
Santamaría has won awards in Mexico, Belgium and Sweden for his work. His solo exhibitions include galleries and museums in Mexico, the United States, Japan, Poland and Russia and he has traveled to many of these countries as an artist in residence. He has completed a number of murals in Mexico and the United States.
Santamaría has won awards in Mexico, Belgium and Sweden for his work. His solo exhibitions include galleries and museums in Mexico, the United States, Japan, Poland and Russia and he has traveled to many of these countries as an artist in residence. He has completed a number of murals in Mexico and the United States.
Extent
51 items (1 folder, 1 oversize box) : 38 relief prints (linocuts), 3 linoleum blocks, 4 mixed media booklets and portfolios ; 22 x 15 in (largest)
Abstract
Linocuts, linoleum blocks and portfolios of multiple serist by printmaker Sergio Sanchez Santamaria.
Physical Location
B2. Filed in Big Box area and in Large Drawers by Pictorial Number.
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Sergio Sánchez Santamaría Print Collection, [2017 - ]
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Wendy Pedersen; Cindy Abel Morris
- Date
- © 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- August 24, 2023: Collection originally titled "Sergio Sanchez Santamaria El Zopilote Print", changed by removing specific print title, acknowledging current additions and to allow for further expansion.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu