GUADALAJARA.- Galería CURRO is presenting Estas cosas toman toda una vida, a group exhibition featuring the work of six contemporary artists: Cynthia Gutiérrez, Richard T. Walker, Claudia Peña Salinas, Andrea Galvani, Paula Cortazar, and Scott Galván. The exhibition explores themes such as landscape, nature, animality, humanity, and the points at which these ideas intersect. The works on view engage with these concepts not only from a conceptual and theoretical standpoint, but also through the materiality that shapes them—generating a sensitive and profound dialogue between form, context, and meaning.
Estas cosas toman toda una vida is on view in the main exhibition space at Galería CURRO, located in the Santa Teresita neighborhood of Guadalajara, from July 10 through August 29, 2025. Admission is free and open to the public.
Andrea Galvani Italy, 1973
Andrea Galvani lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Taking a multidisciplinary approach often rooted in scientific methodology, Galvani’s conceptual investigations make use of photography, video, drawing, sculpture, sound, architectural installation, and performance. His work seeks to heighten awareness and expand the limits of sensory perception, exploring the relationships between fragility and monumentality, temporality and continuity, visibility and invisibility. Galvani has exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum, New York; the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland; the 9th Biennial of Contemporary Art of Nicaragua; Art in General, New York; Aperture Foundation, New York; The Calder Foundation, New York; Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento; Macro Museum, Rome; GAMeC, Bergamo; De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; and SculptureCenter, New York, among others.
His work is part of various private and institutional collections including the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Deutsche Bank Collection, London; Aspen Contemporary Art Collection, New York; UniCredit Art Collection, Milan; and the Permanent Collection of the United States Library of Congress, among others.
Richard T. Walker
Shewsbury, United Kingdom, 1977
The videos, photographic works, sculptural installations, and performances of Richard T. Walker are inspired by solitude, human nature, and dialogue. Focusing on the experience of the environments that surround us, his work reveals tensions between innate desire, cultural interpretation, and the reality of lived experience.
His solo exhibitions include: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; The Contemporary Austin, Texas; ASU Art Museum, Arizona; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; di Rosa, Napa, California; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; James Cohan, New York; Angels Barcelona; Carroll/Fletcher, London; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica; and Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis.
Walker has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Times Museum, Guangzhou; National Museum in Warsaw; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Kunstmuseum Magdeburg; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Parafin, London; and CAPITAL, San Francisco.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, London (2005) and is currently based in San Francisco. Awards and fellowships include Kala Art Institute, Artadia, and the Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship Grant. He was an Irvine Fellow at Montalvo Art Center and an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Cynthia Gutiérrez Guadalajara, Mexico, 1978
Cynthia Gutiérrez’s work is rooted in a sculptural understanding that extends beyond the traditional medium. Her approach to three-dimensionality through various supports arises from a critical strategy that seeks to question and test the vulnerability and stability of what is structural—be it physical, conceptual, or political.
Anchored in diverse philosophical references, Gutiérrez’s work vibrates with inquiries about the future. The relationship between past and present, between institutions as epitomes of structures of power and control, and different forms of political representation, inhabit her practice to open a dialogue that allows us—not necessarily to find answers—but to act with greater awareness of the tensions we face.
The construction of memory and national identity, the idea of progress or failure, the cyclicality of collapse, mechanisms of legitimization and their connection to art and culture are recurrent themes in her work. Through these, she seeks to raise questions and challenge our capacity to discern and negotiate public, political, and social space.
Scott Galván Guadalajara, Mexico, 1998
Scott Galván lives and works in Mexico City. He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking (ENPEG). His practice focuses on drawing and painting, exploring both the material and conceptual possibilities of these media. Through a visual language that incorporates elements of caricature and popular culture, his work investigates the intersections between the artificial and the natural, memory and hybridity, humor and fantasy.
His recent projects delve into the convergence of drawing within the pictorial plane, using forced perspective, repetition, and suggestion as narrative strategies. These resources generate dynamic atmospheres marked by instability, urgency, and movement, creating nuanced connections between the particular and the universal.
He has presented solo exhibitions at Proyectos Multipropósito (CDMX, 2025), Chino Libros (CDMX, 2024), Compás 88 (CDMX, 2023), Machete Galería (CDMX, 2022), and Ruina (Oaxaca, 2021). Notable group exhibitions include Yendo de la cama al living (2025), curated by Enrique Giner de los Ríos; CONVOCATORIA at Salón ACME No. 12 (2025); Evite Apoyarse en el Cristal Vol. I at Tiro al Blanco (2024); Aquí Hay Fuego Desembocado at Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (2023); Esto no es Guadalajara at HOOOGAR (2023); and Minibar El Renacuajo at Compás 88 (2023).
Paula Cortazar Monterrey, Mexico, 1991
Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León in 1991, Paula Cortazar graduated with honors in Visual Arts from the University of Monterrey in 2014. In 2012, she completed a study residency at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France. In 2013, she was selected to participate in the Contemporary Photography Program (PFC), an educational initiative by the Fototeca of Nuevo León.
She has had solo exhibitions at Galería Machete in Mexico City in 2015, 2017, and 2020. Her work has also been part of numerous national and international group exhibitions, including Registro 05 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, +52 Recent Landscapes at Fundación CALOSA in Guanajuato, and Proyectos Unidos Mexicanos at the Wythe Hotel in New York, USA.
Her work was selected for the Soporte / Papel 2015 Bernardo Elosúa Farías Prize. She has received multiple honors, including the Young Creators Fellowship (2020–2021 and 2015–2016) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), First Prize in the 5th Photography Competition (2013) from the University of Monterrey Library, and an Honorable Mention at the Sin Categoría exhibition (2012) by the Casa de la Cultura de San Pedro.
She is currently represented by Galería Machete in Mexico City and by Nosco Gallery in Marseille, France.
Claudia Peña Salinas Montemorelos, Mexico, 1975
In recent years, Claudia Peña Salinas has developed a significant body of work comprising sculpture, installation, painting, video, publications, and photography. After a residency at SOMA in Mexico City, the artist reconnected with her homeland, finding in its landscape a fertile ground for her practice.
Her process—based on documentation, travel, collection, accumulation, and discover —reflects a spatial, material, and temporal investigation. It is an intimate and personal way of engaging with Mexico that extends into cultural and political dimensions.
Born in Montemorelos, Nuevo León, she currently lives and works between Brooklyn and Mexico City. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from Hunter College in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art (2018); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (2015); Queens Museum of Art (2012); Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2006); and El Museo del Barrio (2005).
Her work is part of several prominent collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University; Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca, Spain; the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others.
