b. 1989, Querétaro, México
Lives and Works between Columbia, USA
and Querétaro, México
Comissions and personal contact
iamosw@gmail.com
IG @iam0sw
@goldrainbooks
Fairs & Events Upcoming
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair
May 15–18, 2025
ArtCenter College of Design
950 S. Raymond Ave
Pasadena, CA
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Education
MFA Riso / Photography
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, USA
2024 - 2026
Restoration & Conservation of Art
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro México,
2007 - 2010
Visual artist, photographer, and publisher whose work explores personal archive, artist’s books and street photography. He holds a BFA in Conservation and Restoration of Art from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and is pursuing an MFA focused on Riso and Photography at the University of Missouri in Columbia. As the founder of Gold Rain, a Mexican publisher of books and zines, he collaborates closely with authors and artists to amplify underrepresented voices. His work has been exhibited in galleries across Mexico and the USA, and is part of collections at The MET Museum, The New York Public Library, and Harvard University. He has received the Shannon Michael Cane Award from Printed Matter and completed residencies at the Center for Book Arts, New York, and Calipso Press, Colombia.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Efímera / Ephemera, Osage Arts Community in Belle, Missouri, USA
2023 Street Spirit, The P.I.T., New York, USA
2022 Books by Gold Rain, ¼ Celeste, Querétaro, Mexico
2020 Biotransmutable with Alejandro Uribe, Museum of Contemporary Art Querétaro, Mexico
2019 Street Spirit, Expo Hormiga, Puebla, Mexico
2014 Time & Space, Libertad Gallery, Querétaro, Mexico
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Artists’ Books in Crossett: Identities, Traces, and Alterations: Artists’ Books from the Crossett Library Collection, Vermont
2023 Voices – New Acquisitions of the Book Arts & Private Press Collection from the Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
2022 An Incomplete History of Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, NY
2022 Unfolding Forms at Miriam Gallery, New York, USA
2021 Book Art New Art, Rosario Sánchez Municipal Gallery, Querétaro, México
2020 Fiat Lux, Museum of Contemporary Art Querétaro, México
2020 – 2021 Book Artist in Residence 2021 at The Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
2021 Residency at Calipso Press (Cali, Colombia)
2019 Shannon Michael Cane Award for Gold Rain, awarded by the Shannon Michael Cane Foundation and Printed Matter
2015 APOYARTE 2015, Queretaro Institute of Culture and Arts
2013 PECDA Querétaro, México
2013 – 2014 Young Creators in Arts granted by the Queretaro Institute of Culture and Arts
2010 First Place Award of the 5th Photography Contest of the Anglo Mexican Foundation, School of Visual Arts, New York
Works in Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Thomas J. Watson Library Special Collections, USA
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
The Harvard University Fine Arts Library, USA
Ringling College of Art and Design Alfred R. Goldstein Library
Bennington College Crossett Library Collection, Vermont
Book Arts & Private Press Collection from the Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Querétaro, Mexico
Secretary of Culture of the State of Querétaro, Mexico
Anglocentro Antonio Caso, Mexico City
Libertad Gallery, Querétaro, Mexico
Municipal Gallery, Querétaro, Mexico