In the 1990s, along with other artists, he founded the independent art space, La Panadería, in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City.
Miguel Calderón has been considered to have "a knack for pushing crass stereotypes and clichés to absurd and provocative extremes.
"[3] His gallery, kurimanzutto, claims that Calderón "highlights the macabre complexity of man’s position in the universe, deftly weaving together mockery, foolishness, social critique and sincerity of emotion.
His work has been displayed at, among other places, the Guggenheim Museum's Air: Projections of Mexico exhibit,[7] the Prometer no empobrece: arte contemporáneo mexicano show at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid,[5] the P.S.
[12] In 2007, Calderon exhibited with several other Latin American Artists at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.