Eduardo Mejorada
Eduardo Mejorada Ocaranza, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1969, is a self-taught visual artist with over 25 years of experience. His artistic training began informally in childhood, influenced by his family environment: his grandfather was a restorer of sacred art and his father a printer. From a young age, he showed a strong inclination towards painting, which he developed alongside his self-taught training, receiving guidance from artists such as Juan Kraeppelin. In 1996, he held his first solo exhibition at the Foro de Arte y Cultura in Guadalajara.
Throughout her career, Mejorada has participated in over 50 group exhibitions and presented more than 15 solo shows in prominent venues such as the Cabañas Cultural Institute, the Ex-Convent of Carmen, the City Museum, and MUSA. Her work, influenced by artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark Rothko, is characterized by its abstract, minimalist style and symbolic elements imbued with mysticism. She has also explored printmaking, serigraphy, object art, and drawing.
In 2003, she won first place in the José Atanasio Monroy Painting Prize in the Advanced Painters category, which allowed her to participate in an artist residency in Paris, sponsored by the Cité Internationale des Arts. In 2005, she won the prestigious Salón de Octubre in Guadalajara. These distinctions solidified her career and opened opportunities for her both in Mexico and abroad. Her work has evolved from figurative art toward more abstract compositions, experimenting with materials such as acrylics, charcoal, and mixed media on canvas and wood.
Eduardo Mejorada has also worked as a painting professor at the School of Visual Arts of the Cabañas Cultural Institute. His artistic approach is characterized by a constant search for renewal and a profound emotional connection to the themes he explores, such as the relationship between water and fire, life and death, emptiness and presence. His pieces are distinguished by their formal austerity and strong symbolic charge, inviting contemplative and reflective viewing.
Currently, he continues to produce work from Guadalajara, where he is preparing new exhibitions and collaborating with cultural institutions. With a clear vision of art as a universal language, Mejorada remains committed to artistic creation as a way of life, a spiritual exploration, and a means of personal transformation.
