Arnulfo Mendoza

Arnulfo Mendoza Ruíz (August 17, 1954 – March 7, 2014) was an artist, cultural promotor, and weaver who exhibited his work within Mexico and internationally.

Born in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, a well-known center of Zapotec weaving, he became one of its best-known artisans, recognized as a "Grand Master" by the Fomento cultural Banamex.

He worked on the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art and Oaxacan folkart as director of the La Mano Mágica Gallery, together with his ex-wife Mary Jane Gagnier.

[2] He had over fifty individual and collective exhibitions of his work, including in museums in New York, Madrid, Dallas, Paris, Los Angeles and Berlin.

In 1975 he supervised the production of tapestries of 25 artists in the United States to an exhibition at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles .

Zapotec rug in traditional diamond pattern by the artist
Display of works by the artist at the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico