José Salazar Díaz (Freak Salazar) Bachelor of Visual Arts and figurative painter born on October 11, 1991 in the City of Durango, Mexico. He is currently carrying out his career as a painter and muralist.

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   He has made three individual exhibitions, Multiple groups, as well as giving workshops and making murals in various states of the Mexican Republic and the United States.

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INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS:

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2019 ¨Laberintos¨ at the Six Eighteen Gallery.

2018 ¨Necross¨ at the Palacio de los Gurza Museum.

2014 ¨Mixed¨ at the Durango art gallery.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

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2019 ¨Solsticio¨ at the Six Eighteen Gallery.

2018 ¨Arcadia: 3 proposals of contemporary plastic¨ at the Hacienda de la Ferrería.

2016 ¨Punta Norte, a timeline of visual arts in Durango from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries ¨ at the Francisco Villa Museum.

2015 Participation as an exhibitor in the mural intervention and collective exhibition within the framework of the activities ¨ Híbrido Festival 2015¨ in San Luis Potosí, SLP.

2012 “Itinerant Sample” in the municipal house of culture of Zacatecas, Zacatecas.

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AWARDS, HONORS AND SELECTIONS:

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2019 Second place in the “Guillermo Bravo Morán State Award”.

2018 First place in the ¨State Youth Award¨.

2018 First place in the state contest ¨Artecnología¨.

2018 Honorable mention at the biennial ¨Antonio López Sáenz¨ in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.

2017 Second place in the ¨Zoologicolor¨ contest and first place in ¨Zoologicolor Second stage¨.

2017 First place in the muralism contest ¨Permea¨ of the legislative congress in Mexico.

2017 Selection in the first biennial of painting in Mexico, in San Luis Potosí.

2016 First place in the ¨Villista Identity¨ painting competition at the Durango National Fair.

2016 First place in the Municipal Youth Award.

2015 First place in the state festival "Let's make noise".

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OTHER ACTIVITIES:

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2019 Collaboration with Bache to make ¨The longest mural in Durango¨ in the international company COFICAB.

2017 Solo exhibition of pictorial work at Traders Village, in Dallas, Texas.

2016 Participation in the international festival of muralism ¨Meeting of styles¨ in Houston, USA.

2016 Realization of the mural ¨Character¨ at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the UJED.

2016 Realization of the mural ¨Before the first heartbeat¨ in the area of ​​skills and abilities of the Faculty of Medicine and Nutrition of the UJED in commemoration of its 60th anniversary.

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