Antonio Muñiz

Antonio Muñiz
Antonio Muñiz in his LA Studio, 2012
Born	(1969-08-03) August 3, 1969 (age 55) Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Occupation	Painting Artist

Antonio Muñiz (August 3, 1969 – Chihuahua Mexico) is an abstract surrealist artist from Los Angeles.

Antonio Muñiz was born on August 3, 1969, in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. Muñiz lived and went to school in Chihuahua before moving to Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 16 where he continued his schooling and graduated from high school. He then moved to San Diego, California, to study architecture and graduated in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the New School of Architecture. In 1997 Muñiz moved to Los Angeles, and worked for a few Architectural firms. In 2002 he then created his own design company called Muniva Design Group. This allowed Muñiz to choose the architectural work he wanted to work on, which gave him the flexibility to pursue his interest in art and start establishing himself as an abstract surrealist artist.

Muñiz's main medium is oil on canvas, and since 2006 has been mentored by Rodrigo Pimental, a well known Mexican artist from Mexico City. Through Rodrigo Pimental, Muñiz was introduced to Andrés Blaisten, who is the leading authority on Mexican Modern Art and has the world's largest private collection of Modern Mexican Art,^[1][2] which is on permanent display at Museo Andrés Blaisten in Mexico City. Andrés Blaisten suggested to Muñiz that he study Wolfgang Paalen, where Muñiz discovered the technique of Fumage. Since 2010 Muñiz studied and applied the fumage technique and created his first collection of fumage paintings and drawings titled Metamorphosis.

On September 15, 2012, at the Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles, Antonio exhibited his first complete work of fumage paintings and drawings titled Metamorphosis. Muñiz received praising reviews from the show by Art Ltd Magazine^[3] and Art Scene.^[4] The show ran from September 15, 2012, to October 20, 2012.

Listed below are a few paintings from the collection using the fumage technique with oil on canvas:

• 
  Title: The Creator and Protector of Hearts
  Size: 48" x 72" (122 cm x 183 cm)
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  Title: Maximo Override
  Size: 32" x 24" (81 cm x 61 cm)
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  Title: My Protectors
  Size: 38" x 60" (97 cm x 152 cm)
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  Title: Guided by the Intangible
  Size: 24" x 36" (61 cm x 91 cm)
• 
  Title: Notorious Apple
  Size: 24" x 20" (61 cm x 51 cm)
• 
  Title: Lessons from an Alchemist
  Size: 48" x 38" (122 cm x 97 cm)
• 
  Title: Walking to Paradise
  Size: 60" x 48" (152 cm x 122 cm)

Listed below are a few drawings from the collection using fumage, Gouache and color pencil on paper:

• 
  Title: Astros and Actual Time
  Size: 22" x 30" (56 cm x 76 cm)
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  Title: Silent Symphony
  Size: 15" x 22" (38 cm x 56 cm)
• 
  Title': Untitled
  Size: 15" x 22" (38 cm x 56 cm)
• 
  Title: Untitled
  Size: 22" x 30" (56 cm x 76 cm)

• Antonio Muñiz's Official Website
• Couturier Gallery (Los Angeles representing gallery website)
• Galería Oscar Román (Mexico City representing gallery website)