About me
Semblance
Daniel Bahena García, Cuernavaca, 1984. Graduate in Graphic Design and self-taught visual artist. He has been working full-time on his artistic production for over 15 years from his home-studio in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. He grew up there and spent much of his childhood there, so he has a close connection to that special place.
For this reason, his artistic work will always be imbued with an organic and ethereal aesthetic, amalgamating lucid dreams and earthly experiences.
He has participated in various group exhibitions in Mexico City, such as the Independent Editions Forum at the Carrillo Gil Museum, an exhibition of artist's books at the MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo UNAM, and at the Juan Soriano Museum of Contemporary Art in Cuernavaca, as well as abroad, such as in Peru, among others.
Director of Enhebra Studio, an artistic specialization project where he teaches courses in person and online.
Statement
My name is Daniel Bahena, a visual artist. The experiences that have shaped my path in the arts have involved me professionally in various artistic disciplines and applied techniques in artistic production. My work has led me to the tangible of supports, textures, tones, materials, and an imaginary that traverses the spatiality of my being on this plane. I have always been in collusion with what inspires me, with what worries me, and with everything I don't know—those questions that have taken shape over time and space, a very imperfect amorphous figure that defines me in this moment.
My home studio is where many of the experiences that spark my creative processes emerge. It's here that my grandfather and I were influenced by the natural, botanical, and microscopic world. He introduced me to much of the aesthetic and visual background that my work constantly speaks to. With my other grandfather, I had the opportunity to connect with that entire environment, but also to explore magical places, filled with absorbing nature and a blend of mysterious life stories and spaces that transported me to worlds that contained other, enveloping atmospheres.
I'm grateful for 17 years managing and working at Enhebra Studio, a joint project with my life colleague and visual artist Erika Lujano. A project that was born out of a need to explore the field of the arts, leading us to build and design workshops—courses with artistic disciplines we'd spent years developing and deepening from a particular perspective. Consequently, this has led me to have 14 years as a professional teacher and workshop facilitator at Enhebra Studio, where it currently offers a considerable number of workshops specializing in artistic techniques applied from analog, visual, and purely plastic parameters, resulting in in-person and online courses.
