In his first stage at the universities of Mexico, in 1954 he was recommended by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Pablo O'Higgins, who recognized his talent and dedication.
In 1968 he completed a doctorate in Art History in Uppsala (Sweden), and was named an honorary member of the Royal Union of Swedish Painters.
Museums and galleries in Europe begin to exhibit his work, and in different media they refer to the subtle forms and abstraction that he uses through geometric figures, giving shape to faces, mostly female, and figures that flaunt his playful capacity, the poetic construction through his strokes and the contrast in the characteristic colors of his work, calling him in the printed media as “El Mexicano”.
Upon his return to Mexico, he held a series of exhibitions that support more than sixty years of his career, he exhibited individually at Mary Moore Gallery (La Jolla, California), Museum of Contemporary Art (Morelia, Michoacán), Palacio de Bellas Artes (CDMX), Casa of Culture (Oaxaca, Mexico), Municipal Palace (Monterrey, NL.).
and privately for a group of collectors from the Televisa company, he exhibits again in Sweden (Umprum gallery), in CDMX (Soutine gallery), “Enrique Jiménez” gallery (CDMX), Arte A. C. gallery in Monterrey, Centro Financiero Bancomer , Cervantino International Festival in Guanajuato, Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, Secretariat of the Interior, Exhibition Hall of the CDMX International Airport, collective Pinacoteca NL Collection, Donceles 66 Cultural Center, Historical Center, CDMX Industrial Club, Casa de the Tlalpan Culture During his career he received various awards and recognitions, including: from the Salón de Noviembre en Arte A.C, “Miró" drawing award (Barcelona, Spain), from the Government of Nuevo León, Secretariat of Education and Culture for his collaboration in Nuevo Leon art, diploma from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in recognition of his arduous artistic career, recognition granted by the Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey and he was named a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Su obra aparece publicada en varias revistas y libros, la publicación más reciente es el libro “Diálogo entre poesía y pintura” Pita Amor/Ignacio Ortiz, escrito en 2019 por su viuda y representante Michelle Sandiel.
[2] On the recommendation of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Pablo O'Higgins, he obtained a scholarship to study at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City.
[2] In 1957 he finished his studies in Mexico City and returned to Monterrey where he became a painting instructor at the fine arts program at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
[2] During his career, he has exhibited his work individually and collectively in Mexico, the United States, Sweden, France, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Spain.
[1][2] His first exhibition was at the main hall of the Colegio Civil when he was a student, displayed alongside those of Gerardo Cantú and Marcos Cuellar.
After he finished his studies in Mexico City in 1957, he returned to Monterrey, where he became a painting instructor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
[1][2] Ortiz is of the generation of Mexican painters of the second half of the 20th century, contemporary with Oscar Rodríguez Naranjo, Juan Manuel de la Rosa, Arnold Belkin, José Luis Serrano and Francisco Icaza.