Luis Rochin Naya; Visual Artist.
Awards and Exhibitions.
Awarded 3 times with the FOECA sponsorship by CONACULTA as an artist with trajectory in Visual Arts.
1997 A.Lopez Saenz painting contest; Official selection and honor award. Mazatlan, Sin.
1998 A. Lopez Saenz painting contest; First place and acquisition award. Mazatlan, Sin.
1998 Mi a, b, c,,,;Individual exhibition of paintings at Museo de Arte de Mazatlan. Mazatlan, Sin.
1998 Arte Joven painting contest; Official selection. Aguascalientes, ags.
1999 Caminos del color; Group show at Museo de Arte. Mazatlan, Sin.
2000 Painting and Sculpture Group show at the Guillermo Spratling Museum in Taxco, Guerrero.
2001 A.Lopez Saenz painting contest;official selection. Mazatlan, Sin.
2002 Red Plastica.com painting contest; First place. Mexico City.
2002 VIDARTE 02; Festival Internacional de Video y Artes Electrónicas; Video installation piece for the Palacio de Correos building. Mexico City.
2003 Muestra 02 Art Fair; Representing artist for the state of Sinaloa. Mexico City.
2004 Pintura y objetos; Individual exhibition at Galeria Circulo Azul. Mexico, City.
2005 Arte Vivo; Group show and auction at Museo Tamayo. Mexico City.
2005 Pintura y objetos; Individual exhibition at MASIN (Museo de Arte de Sinaloa). Culiacan, Sin.
2005 Grupo de los 16; Group show and auction at Hacienda de los Morales in Mexico City.
2005 WTCAF: World Trade Center Art Fest painting and sculpture contest; Official selection. Mexico City.
2005 Vanguardias mexicanas; Group show of visual arts at Centro Cultural España Juan Salazar in Asunción, Paraguay.
2006 ESTACION-ARTE 06 Gráfica de gran formato; Large format prints; Individual piece installation in the parking lot of the MACO International Art fair in Mexico City.
2006 Grupo de los 16; Group show and auction at Hacienda de los Morales in Mexico City.
2006 Sobrantes; Individual exhibition of graphic work installation at the down town art space Patio de Mi Casa in Mexico City.
2007 Grupo de los 16; Group show and auction at Hacienda de los Morales in Mexico City.
2008 ESTACION-ARTE 08 / L46600; individual installation piece at the New Cultural Center in Tlatelolco as part of the activities of the MACO International Art Fair. Mexico City.
2008 Grupo de los 16; Group show and auction at Hacienda de los Morales in Mexico City.
2008 Exposicion Itinerante de Artes Plasticas y Visuales del Estado de Sinaloa;Group show of selected representative artists of Sinaloa State; Two pieces in the official selection. International and domestic shows for three years.
2008 Arte Vivo; Group show and auction at Museo Tamayo. Mexico City.
2008 Prints; Individual exhibition and space intervention at Galeria Arte Activo in Mazatlan, Sin.
2010 Grupo de los 16; Group show and auction at Hacienda de los Morales in Mexico City.
2010 subastARTE; Group show and auction. MASIN (Museo de Arte de Sinaloa). Culiacan, Sin.
2011 A.Lopez Saenz painting contest; Official selection. Mazatlan, Sin.
2011 Geometria gestual;Painting solo exhibition at Galeria La Bohemia and Molika Bakery. Mazatlan, Sin.
2011 Transferencias; individual exhibition of prints at Restaurant and Galeria Ophelia. Ensenada, B.C.
2012 Transferencias; Individual exhibition of selected print work at Boca deli art walk. Punta Mita, Nayarit.
2012 AAF: the Affordable Art Fair; Invited artist represented by Justesen Contemporary. Los Angeles, Ca.
Education;
Comic Art and Drawing at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. Photography at Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Mexico City and Live Model Drawing at San Carlos and Tallería in Mexico City.
Trained in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
As a Visual Artist he works with different media: Found objects, Painting, Installation, Photography and Collage. He likes to explore and take every technique to its limits to keep his work playful and risky.
He has shown his work in Solo Exhibitions in Mexico City, Culiacan, Mazatlan, Baja California, and Nayarit and has participated in group shows in Mazatlan, Culiacan, Mexico City, Taxco, Asuncion (Paraguay) and Los Angeles.
Over the last 11 years he's been working as a Motion Control Camera Operator doing Visual Effects Photography for Movies, Documentaries and TV Commercials in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela.
Born in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico; Art, Surfing and Skateboarding are his passions and he travels constantly to the pacific coast on the look for wave energy and to observe the constant change of the ocean.
He works and lives in his Mexico City studio.