Antonio Pichillá, born in 1982 in San Pedro La Laguna, Sololá, and who lives and works in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. Pichilla graduated from the National School of Plastic Arts, Rafael Rodríguez Padilla (1999-2003)and is a member of the group TEI-CA Atellier studio on research in sciences and art with methods of study and interdisciplinary research around contemporary art directed by Roberto Cabrera (2001-2014), and has been in residence at the foundation nuevas raíces, Antigua Guatemala on 2016.
Pichillá has an extensive artistic background focused in researching related to both, Western traditions of what's called "abstraction and ancestral textile traditions" originating from his Mayan family and origin. His artwork is characterized as experimental and multidisciplinary, rooted in the landscape and in the updating of the ancestral past in the present.
His work can be found in multiple outstanding collections such as Museo Reina Sofia, Spain; Tate Museum, London; Detroit Contemporary Art Museum, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA; IL POSTO, Chile; Inter-American Development Bank, Washington; Quinto Lojo Collection, Guatemala; Banco de España Collection, Spain; Space Collection, California, Luiz Chrysóstomo Collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Ernesto and Cecilia Poma among many.
He has received numerous mentions and awards internationally and has participated in collective as swell as individual exhibits that has made him the most established artist of his region.
He has recently participated at the 22a Bienal Sesc_VideoBrazil en São Paulo Brazil, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara CA with his solo “Tejiendo el Paisaje” and at the Denver Art Museum. He is currently being exhibited at the Barbican Centre in London, UK and is part of group exhibitions in Sao Paulo and Milan.
