Remigio Valdés de Hoyos, born 1958 in northern Mexico, at the industrial city of Monterrey.  He began his exploration on visual arts as a self-taught artist when he was thirteen years old, but at the insistence of his parents, he studied architecture at the Autonomous National University of Mexico.  From 1975 on he has devoted  himself entirely to the arts.

In 1978 he moved to Paris and began training in copper engraving  at the Lacourière- Frélaut workshop.  In 1984, he worked with Andrew Vlady, who directs the Kyron  lithography workshop in Mexico City.  In 1997, having acquired great experience at the Puebla Uriarte Factory in Mexico, he began incorporating Talavera Ceramics techniques into his works.  In 1998 he was awarded a scholarship by the  Starke Cultural Foundation in Berlin, Germany, to work & exhibit there, after which, in 1999, he decided to settle in Montreal, Canada, so fascinated was he by the energy which the city exudes, and has lived there ever since.

Throughout his career, he has exhibited his masterpieces in Mexico, Germany, the United States, France, Spain, Cuba and many Asian countries. In 2001 the Montreal museum of Fine Arts acquired the triptych Cielo  for  its permanent collection.  Most recently, the Domaine de Viaud winery of Lalande-De-Pomerol  selected one of his works Terra Nostra for the labels of their 2000 vintage, released in 2002 and for that special occasion, several exhibits of the artist's work were organized in France and in Canada in 2002; another exhibit will be held in Japan in the autumn 2005 at the Space TRY gallery  in Tokyo.

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