Mauricio García Vega (born December 21, 1944) is a Mexican painter whose work has been recognized by various awards and membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.

He is the older brother of artist Antonio García Vega and has the nickname of “Untonten.”[1] From 1965 to 1967, he studied at the Instituto AFHA de Artes Plásticas in Barcelona.

[1] García Vega has had over 180 individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, the United States, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, and France.

The Aus der Tiefe series deals with the violence in human society, which the artist has said continues to grow.

[3] According to art critic Carlos Blas Galindo, García Vega’s works are meant to disquiet, move, impact, impress, surprise, and amaze onlookers.