The Life and Artistic Journey of Miguel Condé
Born in Pittsburgh, United States, Miguel Condé is a Mexican figurative painter, draughtsman, and print maker. His upbringing was shaped by a childhood spent between Mexico and the United States, moving to New York in 1948. His early artistic training included studying anatomy with Stephen Rogers Peck and attending courses by Millard Meiss at the Fogg Art Museum. In 1959, he settled in Tepoztlán, Mexico, before moving to Paris in 1963 on a scholarship from the French government, where he studied with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.
Condé's career has seen him hold a teaching position in drawing and mixed media at the University of Iowa School of Art and serve as a MacDowell Fellow. His work has been exhibited in various international venues, including the Galería de Arte Mexicano in Mexico City and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. He has also been a foreign Artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Artistic Style and Collections
Condé describes his paintings as a narrative that could be carried out on stage, on canvas, or even in film. He focuses on figurative painting, often concentrating on the character through gesture, brushstroke, and material, typically without the addition of landscapes or architecture. His work is held in numerous prestigious museum collections worldwide, including:
