Nahum zenil biography of michael

The artist, born in , has been in its collection since The wall text described them as being about his sense of dislocation as a gay....

Nahum B Zenil (Born ) is active/lives in Mexico.

Brenson, Michael, “Where the Physical and Spiritual Both Meld and Clash “Nahum Zenil y la politica de alma/Nahum Zenil and the politics of the soul.

The artist, born in , has been in its collection since The wall text described them as being about his sense of dislocation as a gay.

Zenil is a gay Mexican artist who uses self portraits as a way to examine his cultural background as a Catholic who grew up gay in a small town.

Nahum B. Zenil was a primary-school teacher for about 20 years before becoming a full-time artist in He works meticulously on paper.

Nahum B. Zenil

Mexican artist (born 1947)

Nahum B. Zenil is a Mexican artist who often uses his own self-portrait as the principal model for a cultural critical interpretation of Mexico, especially concerning homosexuality and mestization.

Zenil was born in 1947 in the state of Veracruz. In 1959, he enrolled at the Escuela Nacional de Maestros (National Teachers' School) in Mexico City, from which he graduated in 1964. It was during this period in which Zenil became interested in painting.

He later entered the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura (known as La Esmeralda) in Mexico City in 1968. He is also one of the founding members of the Semana Cultural Gay ("Cultural Gay Week"), which occurs yearly at the Museo Universitario del Chopo.^[1] His art is often compared to that of Frida Kahlo,^[2] in which the self becomes the principal object of their paintings letting the viewer discover the artists as individuals as well as the broader social and cultural