Luis Vargas Santa Cruz

b. 1981

Considered the painter of the Guerrero Dirty War, Luis Vargas Santa Cruz is a Mexican artist who has embraced total art, enjoying all the fine arts. His work is fundamental in the history of Mexican art. With more than 50 solo and group exhibitions, his expressionist style has contemporary elements of social criticism. The pictorial series Aicus Arreug is one of the most important in his career, with the theme of State terrorism and has been referenced in different literary works of truth and historical memory about crimes against humanity in Mexico. Some of his most relevant exhibitions are Aznad Etreum and Imaginary Landscapes. The expulsion from paradise; pictorial series created during the confinement of the pandemic period, it shows a great contemplation of beauty, an emotional and deep aesthetic process; This series marks a break in his artistic work. Among his most controversial works are In the name of the father and Sin nombre, which are a criticism of pederasty.