Sculptor Pedro Cervantes was born on October 2, 1933, in Mexico City. He had a love for horses since he was seven years old and his grandfather gave him a horseshoe. Since he couldn't own one he began to draw and sculpt them. He attended the Escuela de Artes Plasticas for a couple of years.
Cervantes has created sculptures of all sizes: monumental, relief and small scale. Although he has used ceramics, he primarily uses a variety of metals for his sculptures such as bronze, steel plates and wrought iron, and even junk metal and car parts. His work has usually followed the theme of horses as well as the female figure, often the work is figurative rather than overly realistic, in a futuristic style. His work has also been referred to as surrealistic, neo-expressionistic, and neo-Dadaism. In speaking about his work Cervantes has stated that he considers conceptually three elements: "mind, body, emotion; imagination, permanence, motion; and heads, torsos, wings."
His work has been exhibited and installed in public spaces all over Mexico and abroad. Cervantes has won many recognitions and awards for his work.
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