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Aztec Stories in Modern Mexico: An Inocencio Jiménez Chino Retrospective explores five decades of the artist’s practice through paintings, video interviews, audio recordings, and artist tools including handmade brushes and amate canvases. 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 Valley of Guerrero, Mexico. 

Rooted in Nahuatl storytelling and cultural preservation, Chino’s work bridges ancient and contemporary traditions, offering profound insight into Indigenous culture, community, and craft. The exhibition presents not only finished artworks but also the process behind them, featuring video interviews and demonstrations of amate papermaking and brush construction, as well as the artist’s tools and materials. 

This educational exhibition invites visitors to explore connections between art and ancestry, labor and landscape, and storytelling and cultural survival. 

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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