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Aztec Stories in Modern Mexico: An Inocencio Jiménez Chino Retrospective

Available: Summer 2027 – Summer 2030

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Aztec Stories in Modern Mexico: An Inocencio Jiménez Chino Retrospective explores over five decades of the artist’s practice through paintings, video interviews, and audio recordings. Jiménez Chino’s first-ever retrospective, this exhibition traces the artist’s evolution from early works on board to protest line drawings from the 1990s and newly completed narrative amate paintings that capture, with remarkable intimacy and detail, daily life in the Balsas River basin of Guerrero, Mexico. 

Rooted in Nahuatl storytelling and cultural preservation, Jiménez Chino’s work bridges ancient and contemporary traditions, offering profound insight into Indigenous culture, community, and craft. The exhibition invites visitors to explore connections between art and ancestry, labor and landscape, and storytelling and cultural survival. 

Curated by Emilee Enders, organized by Bedford Gallery, and presented in collaboration with Catalyst Contemporary. 

Exhibition Details

  • Curated by Emilee Enders, Curator of Exhibitions and Programs, Bedford Gallery
  • Objects: approximately 35 works, including paintings on handmade amate and board. Also includes artist tools and a short-form interview video file.
  • Space Requirement: approximately 2,000–2,500 sq. ft.; scalable for smaller venues.
  • Provided materials: digital files of all wall label text with accompanying audio files. Provided electronically: installation information, condition reports, press materials with images, and an educational guide for visitors and docent training.
  • Shipping: one-way (incoming) shipping requiring approximately two crates. A list of economical shippers will be provided.

Artwork Credits

  1. Top: Inocencio Jiménez Chino, Plate 1: Uncle Rabbitt and the Wax Doll, 2013, Acrylic Paint on hand-made amate, 15 x 23 inches, Courtesy of Catalyst Contemporary

  2. Bottom Left: Inocencio Jiménez Chino, The Town Festival, 1987. Acrylic on Board, Courtesy of Jonathan Amith

  3. Bottom Right: Inocencio Jiménez Chino, The Mermaid: Mother of the Fish, 1972, Acrylic Paint on hand-made amate,16 x 23.75 inches, Courtesy of Jonathan Amith

For More Information

Christine Koppes
Traveling Exhibitions Manager
koppes@bedfordgallery.org
Tel. 925-295-1435

Images and full checklist available Spring 2026.

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