Edgar Cano

EDGAR CANO, 1977. Mexico 
RESUME / CV  

Painter, drawer, and lithographer. He began in the visual arts by creating illustrations and scenography for university theater during his studies at the Faculty of Arts in Xalapa, Veracruz (UV). In more than two decades of art production, he has been distinguished and awarded in various national and international competitions.   

Recently, he was granted to be included in the Tamarind Institute lithography workshops in Albuquerque, NM. Also, the Gottlieb Foundation award in NY, and the Southern Arts and State Fellowship in 2025. He has also obtained multiple scholarships, including the Member of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA (SNCA, 2014) award in the discipline of visual arts, with a specialization in painting. With a large new painting project, he received this honor for the second time in 2021. Also, he has been recognized as Best Show at the 61st Juried Show of the Masur Museum at Monroe, LA, and Best in Show from the Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge LA, at the 16th Surreal Salon, both in 2024. In 2018. Cano received a grant from the FONCA Promotion and Co-investment Program to carry out the exhibition El Centro Único of his authorship.  In 2023 and 2018, he was part of the jurors on the Selection Commission of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA), and the same year, he was a juror at the Biennial Alfredo Zalce, in Morelia. Among other fellowships, he was awarded by FONCA Young Creators scholarship (2010 and 2012) and in the State of Veracruz, PECDA (2005 and 2009). 

To date, he has had eighteen solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and more than fifty group exhibitions in various cities within and outside of the country. He has shown his work in Argentina, Canada, England, Italy, Japan, the United States, Serbia, and Sweden. Among the collections where his work can be found, the following stand out: MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; Museo Nacional de la Estampa MUNAE, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce MACAZ, Morelia, Michoacán; Engraving Collection of the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca IAGO; José Guadalupe Posada Museum, Aguascalientes Ags.; Artistic Collection of the State of Veracruz IVEC; Collection of the International Art Studio Radovan Tranavac Mica, Valjebo, Serbia; Artistic Collection of the Lithography Workshop of La Ceiba Grafica, Coatepec, Veracruz; The Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy; Grupo Milenio’s Collection, México City; Collection of the Jagüey Institute, Teotihuacán, Mex.; Collection of the Friday Cottage Art Space, Columbia, SC., Northwestern State University of Louisiana art collection, among other private collections. Edgar Cano moved to Louisiana to pursue his MA in Visual Arts at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, where he received a full scholarship. He lives with his family in Natchitoches, LA. He works as a Professional Artist and as an assistant professor of Art at NSULA.  

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