Lucía Maya (born 1953 in
Santa Catalina Island,
California) is a
Mexican
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painter, sculptor and
lithographer whose work has been displayed at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Portland, Oregon, the
Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art and the
National Museum of Tequila
The National Museum of Tequila (MUNAT) located in the City of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, is a Museum about the history of Tequila (the drink) and an art center.
The museum counts six individual spaces representing aspects about the evolution ...
in 2015.
She was born on Santa Catalina Island in California in 1953, but moved with her family to San Pedro Tlaquepaque,
Jalisco
Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...
,
Mexico in 1957. In 1971 she began studying at the
University of Guadalajara
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and, in 1974, she moved to
Spain to study at the Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando in
Madrid. In 1978 she married the art history professor Gutierre Aceves Piña, from whom she separated in 1993. Her first exhibition was held at the
Degollado Theatre. Apart from short stays in
New Jersey,
Argentina and
Europe, Maya has lived in
Guadalajara
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since 1957.
References
External links
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Biography at MexConnectExhibitions
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1953 births
Living people
Mexican women artists
Artists from Guadalajara, Jalisco