Francisco Castro Leñero, painter

Castro Leñero studied painting at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ("La Esmeralda") of the National Institute of Fine Arts from 1975. 

Since 1982 he has worked as a drawing teacher at the School of Fine Arts, Xochimilco, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.   

The work of Castro Leñero shows us his preference for color, brushwork, geometric shapes, and conceptual minimalism.  His paintings have been exhibited internationally in individual and group exhibitions of the Museum of the Americas of Puerto Rico, the Mexican Fine Arts Institute of Chicago, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hudson River Museum, in New York City.  He has received the prestigious National System of Art Creators Award.