About Cid Suard
Born on May 29, 1968, he later abandoned his graphic design studies to dedicate himself to painting, which he pursued as a self-taught artist. In 1987, he and Cyr Casas founded the Psychorealist group. They inaugurated their first exhibition, "On the Other Side of the Moon," on February 2, 1989, at Enrique de la Cuadra's Balance Gallery. They conceived the first Young Art Expo, a multidisciplinary event featuring 150 artists, which took place on March 22, 1992, in Abraham Lincoln Park in Polanco. In 1993, the Expo was successfully held again from April 1 to 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Chile and from October 28 to 30 at the Tamayo Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Mexico City. It is the only independent young art event to have brought together 300 artists from two Latin American countries. In July 1992, at the Museum of the City of Santiago, they presented the exhibition "Reality: A Mere Point of View," marking the first artistic collaboration between Chile and Mexico after the Chilean military dictatorship and making them the first young artists to exhibit at that museum with its dictatorial past. In 1994, the Psychorealist group became involved with expressions not considered art (graffiti and street performances) and, with the support of Rock 101, organized the multidisciplinary happening "I Offer a Tear to the World on a Summer Night" in an abandoned house in Mexico City; and the Comcasa la Moira Urban Art Project, a traveling mural featuring graffiti artists from Panchitos Graffiti Mexico, illustrators, cartoonists, and other urban artists. José Luis Cuevas contributed his art to a wall. The group disbanded that year. As a solo artist, he inaugurated his first exhibition, "Desaprendizajes" (Unlearnings), in March 1991 at the Lawrence Gallery in Santiago, Chile, which was later presented by the Mexican Embassy at the reopening of the Anáhuac Cultural Center in April of the same year. Since then, he has had 12 solo exhibitions, most of them outside of Mexico. Notable among these are his exhibition in Barcelona, as part of the trans-art grant organized by the Saint Feliu de Llobregat Youth Institute, and the one held at the invitation of the Rural Bank of Toledo, Spain. Also noteworthy is the exhibition "24 Frames per Second" at the Carrillo Gil Museum, a tribute to the centenary of cinema. In April 2017, he presented his exhibition "Reinterpreting Cuevas" at the Museum of the City of Querétaro, featuring the work of painters Santiago Boldó and Víctor Corleone. He founded the Capital Arte en Sociedad collective with museographer Alejandro Matzumoto, photographer Raimundo Diaz Gonzalez Montes de Oca, poet Amilcar Caballero, designer Tenoch, and graffiti artist Bolo, to bring art to universities through lectures and exhibitions. He won the Acquisition Prize at the Bulgaria Biennial and an Honorable Mention at the Fifth Paper Salon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been selected for the World Contemporary Art competition in Los Angeles, California, and the First Young Painters Competition organized by the Querétaro Art Museum. He was recently selected for the Rosario Sanchez de Lozada Prize, organized by the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of the City of Querétaro. Currently, and since 1994, he has been dedicated to the creation of the multidisciplinary project Cubo de Arte Móvil La Mujer del Espejo (Mobile Art Cube The Woman in the Mirror), which addresses the creation of an image without the need for an author, and the creation of a platform for ghost art.
Metanarratives of a dystopia
By Cid Suard