I was born in Coyoacán, Mexico City. It's unrelated, but that's the same neighborhood where Frida Kahlo used to live. My first contact with American culture was visual. The local TV network used to broadcast some NFL games. Watching those titanic clashes, I thought the US must have had the best food in the world.

I came to Raleigh, NC, in 1996 to visit some friends. I saw deer, squirrels, and opossums walking down the street. That was awesome! There were trees everywhere and hardly any people. I called it paradise! My wife and I decided to stay.

I've held many jobs, from delivering papers to serving tables, teaching Spanish to Americans, working in warehouses, doing fast food, translations, and interpretations. Also, from 1998 to 2004, I worked for several Spanish-language local media outlets: newspapers, when they used to exist, and radio. I taught GED classes to farmworkers.

Currently, I'm the Director of the Fox Road Boys & Girls Club. Here, among a thousand other things,  I oversee the organizational (10 Clubs in Wake & Johnston Counties) Art and Photography Contests.

I like to think I was born an artist, however I started professionally painting in 2018. I've completed several projects in Mexico City, Raleigh, Durham and Pittsboro. In May 2026, I proudly completed 9 years serving the Artspace Board of Directors, I am a member of the NC Museum of Art Community Advocacy Committee, and I'm a founding member of ILAAC: Inter-Latin American Artist Collective (Raleigh, NC, 2022).

After many years of patient waiting, I finally became an American citizen in December 2023 – yay! I don't love scary movies, but I watch them sometimes. My favorite writer is Octavio Paz. I love bread, the mountain, poetry, my family, cats, tacos, tortas and tamales. Welcome to my little place! I hope you like my art. Thanks!