Sergio Ricaño Gutiérrez is Director of the National Art School in Mexico City (Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”). He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the National School of Plastic Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. His work belongs to national and international collections, such as the Museo José Guadalupe Posada; the Museo Nacional de la Estampa; the special collections of Ibero-American art of the universities of Stanford and Berkeley; the Museo Iconográfico de Guanajuato; the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez, Oaxaca; the Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, in Valencia, Spain, and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, among others. In 2012 he received the Takeda Biennial Prize, Oaxaca, and an Honourable Mention at the Zalce Biennial in Morelia, Michoacán, whose acquisition prize he won in 2014. Since 2008 he founded and directs TACO, Talleres de Arte Contemporáneo, a space for education, dissemination, exhibition and production for the visual arts.