Mayte Ángeles and Abel Soriano
Mayte Ángeles (Mexico City, 1994) studied Visual Arts at the Escuela de Iniciación Artística 4 (2011–2013) and at UNAM's Faculty of Art and Design (2014–2017). She has worked in painting, printmaking, ceramics, carpentry, textiles, bookbinding and sewing, with an interest in the processes, origins and particularities of each material, and in ideas of home, belonging, memory and identity. She has been selected for national and international competitions including the Alfredo Zalce Biennial of Painting and Printmaking (2020), the 41st National Young Art Meeting (2021), the 3rd Oaxaca Miniprint Competition (2022) and the 1st International Mixteca Mini Print Competition (2024), and received a Jóvenes Creadores grant (2025–2026). She has shown in group exhibitions in Mexico, Peru, Spain and Poland.
Abel Soriano, or Prieto Mixterco (Abel Pérez Soriano), is a multidisciplinary artist born in Santa María Xochixtlapilco, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca (1992), who lives and works in Oaxaca City. He studied Graphic Design at UDAL, Puebla. He works in drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, murals and sign painting. In 2023 he and seven other artists founded the creative workshop and gallery “Barro Koo”. He was selected for the 1st and 2nd International Mixteca Mini Print Competitions (2024 and 2026) and has shown in group exhibitions in Mexico, Peru and the United States.