[2] Raised in a family linked to the arts, in his adolescence he became interested in music and learned to play instruments such as guitar, bass, piano and drums.

[2] He became professionally involved as a restorer with the Mexican department store chain Sanborns,[2] and in 2008 he created his first skull sculpture, a technique that would become one of his main characteristics during his career.

[3][4] In October of the same year he represented his country at the Art Shopping Paris event, held at the Carrousel du Louvre.

[9] Inspired by Naia, the longest-lived female skeleton in the Americas found in Tulum, in the early 2020s he developed a new collection of sculptures, consisting of seven pieces, which were placed in different cities.

[10] On May 5, 2022, the Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel in New York unveiled El Toro de Oro, a large sculpture created by Cabrera from gold ingots.