Vladimir Cora

Vladimir Cora was born in San Diego el Naranjo in the municipality of Acaponeta, Nayarit.

[5] Frustrated with his progress, he decided to run off to Mexico City and he remembers his first time seeing the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

There he also had problems finding shelter until someone gave him room and board in exchange for some of his drawings, but he did manage to attend some classes.

[2] Later, he entered the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" but only stayed for a year and a half.

[5] He remains in his native Nayarit and has never considered living in Mexico City to further his career or fame.

[9] He began to be able to live off his art around 1981, when he had an exhibition in Puerto Vallarta, where all thirty three pieces sold in one night.

[9] In 2004, he created a series of pieces such as paintings, graphic work and sculpture with fellow Mexican artist Jazzamoart and exhibited them.

[10] The series Los Apóstoles was on display in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 2010.

[1] In 2013, he exhibited a series called “Reminiscencias” at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, of which he is a member.

[12]Cora has spent most of his professional life working from his native Nayarit, rather than in Mexico City like most Mexican artists although he has a workshop in California.

For this series, he built a cabin on the Palmar de Cuautla beach to observe the birds there.

[13][8] In 2010, Cora donated a work called The Biggest Heart On Earth to the city of Guanajuato and the Festival Internacional Cervantino.

[5] Cora believes that art should relate to “ancestral memory” and old myths applied to modern reality.

[5] Recurring themes in his work are the Twelve Apostles, flowers, fruit, birds and female nudes.

[11] His depictions of women are often related to the concepts of desire and devotion, often with the body partially hidden to give a sense of looking into a private scene.

It contains a collection of his works from the 1980s to the present as well as pieces from the Castro Leñero brothers, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, Sebastián, Manuel Felguérez, Vicente Rojo and Gabriel Macotela.