About Alan

A. Rodriguez (1991, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)

Since his childhood he had an interest in drawing, much of his time was spent playing with a pencil, imagining scenes and putting them on paper, creating his own toys and spending his afternoons observing the horizon, thinking of giants on the clouds and mountains.

His passion for observing cloud formation comes from the fear of clouds, i.e., the fear of storms, which forced his mind to interpret the weather.

As time passed, fear turned him into a lover, admiring how vulnerable we are to uncontrollable forces. He supposed that "we call nature what we do not understand." This leads him to delve deeper into themes that he captures in his work.

He decided to devote himself completely to painting at an early age, because he believes that there is no science that encompasses more than imagination, with which he intends to make an extensive dialogue.

Currently, his works are represented by renowned galleries in Mexico and Europe.

Artistic Trajectory

Alan studied Archaeology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and worked for two years in the archaeological zone of Cañada de la Virgen, collaborating in archaeological drawing and excavation. There, between layers of earth and time, he breathed with the territory. Each level revealed a story, and in her painting, each stroke is an intimate stratum, an inner excavation where memories emerge slowly, like light rising from the earth.

In 2018 and 2019, for two consecutive years, he received first place as Emerging Artist of the State of Guanajuato, consolidating his presence in the Mexican art scene. In December 2019, he was one of the artists selected for the exhibition Homage to Leonardo da Vinci at the Tobian Gallery (Florence, Italy), within a Mexico-Italy cultural exchange program by the Ministry of Culture.

Throughout his career, he has been invited to exhibit his work in museums and cultural spaces in Mexico and Europe. His exhibitions include Gala 10° at the Museo de Arte de Querétaro (2024, Querétaro), Ensemble de memorias visuales at the Museo Torres Bicentenario (2022, Toluca); his participation in ZONA MACO (2020, Mexico City), represented by OMR Gallery, and the Latin American Art Exhibition at cSPACE Marda Loop (2020, Calgary, Canada). He was previously part of Guanajuato Contemporáneo at the Centro Regional de Expresión Artística (2018, Irapuato) and El Tiempo at the Museo Bicentenario (2017, Dolores Hidalgo).

Between 2020 and 2025, he maintained his homonymous gallery at Fábrica La Aurora, one of Mexico's main artistic poles, in San Miguel de Allende, a space devoted entirely to the presentation and evolution of his pictorial practice. He has also carried out artistic projects at the JW Marriott Los Cabos Resort (2023, Los Cabos, Mexico) and Costa Navarino Resort (2022, Pylos, Greece), as well as collaborations with private galleries.