Neo-expressionist painter, collage artist and architect, Julio Galan, was born on December 5, 1958, in Monterrey, Mexico. His work is said to represent his life experiences. Working in Mexico as well as in New York; it was in New York that famed Andy Warhol first discovered Galan, printing a couple of his works in the magazine Interview, in 1984.
Galan exhibited in the US as well as Mexico. He won the "Premier Marco" award from the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, in 1994. Sadly, Julio Galan died of a brain hemorrhage on a plane enroute to Monterrey, in 2006.
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