Xavier Guerrero (December 3, 1896, San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila – June 29, 1974, Mexico City) was one of the pioneers of the Mexican muralism movement in the early 20th century.

[1] He was born in San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila to Toalul Guerrero and Marion Saucedo.

[3] Already noted for his work in watercolors, he moved to Guadalajara in 1912 where he met painters, musicians, sculptors and journalists at a location called Centro Bohemio, one of the centers of the start of the Mexican muralism movement.

[2][6] In the 1950s he met and married Cuban designer Clara Porset, who had her own professional career working with architects such as Juan Sordo Madaleno, Luis Barragán, Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral.

[2][5] However, he was one of the pioneers of the Mexican muralism movement along with Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

[2] One reason for his obscurity is that much of his mural work has disappeared, with the largest surviving collections found in Guadalajara and the Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo in the State of Mexico.

[2] In 1919, he moved to Mexico City to painting the cupola of the former Monastery del Carmen and researched pre Hispanic fresco techniques.

[1][7] He also designed the stained glass window with the seal of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the same building with Jorge Enciso.

[1] In 1921, Guerrero met Diego Rivera and became one of the artists to paint the San Ildefonso College building, then the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and the Anfiteatro Bolivar, mostly done in encaustics.

[3] With Gabriel Fernández Ledesma he designed the wainscot made of Talavera tiles for the mural work titled Zodiaco in 1921.

[7] However, from 1940 to 1942, he worked with David Siqueiros on a mural in Chillán, Chile called Muerte al invasor at the Pedro Aguierre Cerda Library of the Escuela México.

[1] Later murals also include Motivos mexicanos at the house of José Guadalupe Zuno and El día y la noche at the Ermita Cinema in Tacubaya in the 1950s.

[7] Recognitions include one major prize, first place at the International Competition of Contemporary Furniture Design sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

[2] In 2002, the state of Coahuila held a retrospective of his work called "Entre Torreón y San Pedro, homenajo al maestro Xavier Guerrero.

[3] Like many of the muralists, he thought of art as a means of social transformation to liberate the oppressed classes, but he did find much of the movement's overt political character alienating.