Julio Carrasco Bretón

Julio Carrasco Bretón (born 1950) is a Mexican artist mostly dedicated to murals and canvas work.

He has given over seventy talks about culture and copyright in Latin America, the United States, Spain, France, Canada, the U.K. and Italy.

[2] Since the 2000s he has created lithographs with Atelier Bramsen in Paris and engravings with the Mario Reyes workshop in Mexico City.

[1] Carrasco created his first mural in 1973 and since then has painted over fifty, at universities, government buildings, cultural institutions and private companies in Mexico, France, Spain, Costa Rica, Canada and the United States.

[6][7] Other important murals are found at the city government building in Monterrey, the national Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria and the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.

[2] In August 2023, Carrasco unveiled a large mural located in the immigration area of Ben Gurion Airport, an initiative by Mexican-Israeli philanthropist Isaac Assa.

[4] The themes of his murals mostly relate to science, philosophy and art, such as ecological problems, mythology, social movements, history and the effects of technology on society.

[2] A mural in the Plaza Legislativo is called Sintonía Ecotrópico which deals with the effects science and technology has on nature.

Themes in his canvas works usually relate to the erotic and literary along with moods, human relationships, politics, dance, cinema, the theater and poetry.