Nationality Mexican (Zapotec) Known for Graphic Art | Name Francisco Toledo Role Graphic artist | |
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Full Name Francisco Benjamin Lopez Toledo Spouse(s) Elisa Ramirez Castaneda Books Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: Theory and Practice : Application to Robot Navigation | ||
Two Graphic Works by Francisco Toledo
Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (born July 17, 1940, Juchitán, Oaxaca) is a Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria.
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Francisco Toledo @ LAM
Art activism
His social and cultural concerns about his home state led to his participation in the establishment of an art library at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO), as well as his involvement in the founding of the es:Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), the Patronato Pro-Defensa y Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural de Oaxaca, a library for the blind, a photographic center, and the Eduardo Mata Music Library. Toledo works in various media, including pottery, sculpture, weaving, graphic arts, and paintings. He has had exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden, the United States, as well as other countries.
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Family
Toledo's parents were Zapotec. He is father of poet Natalia Toledo and artists Laureana Toledo and Dr Lakra.