Calixto Robles

Calixto Robles is from Oaxaca Mexico and moved to San Francisco in 1983. He is a painter, printmaker, and ceramic sculptor who is inspired by Meso-America and First Nation people’s culture as well as sacred imagery of ancient Eastern and Western cultures. He uses natural and supernatural figures such as angels, eagles, jaguars, horses, hearts, and moons. His work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum, Legion of Honor, Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Centro Cultural de Mexico in Paris France, Biblioteca de La Habana, La Habana Cuba, and has taught screen printing at MCCLA from 1990-2019