Aarón Piña Mora

He was born in Metztitlan in the state of Hidalgo, and moved with his family, at an early age, to Mexico City.

In 1954 he received a scholarship by the Ignacio Usle Fernández Foundation to study with Don Daniel Vazquez Diaz in Madrid, Spain.

During that time he also studied technique in the Museo del Prado and attended classes at the Fine Arts Circle of Madrid.

[1][2] He received this commission in 1959 from Governor Teofilo Borunda, and when President Adolfo López Mateos visited the city in 1962, he inspected the first-floor murals, and urged Piña to continue the work to the second-floor as well.

However, it wasn't until the 1990s that he completed the farming and mining panels on the second floor, and in a much changed, more mature style.