David Roy Ocotla (Mexico City, 1984).

Visual artist who graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda”, INBA, National Center for the Arts Acadamy in Mexico City.

His work uses the symbolic and visual value of popular printed posters and books, as well as newspapers as raw materialto redefine and reconfigure their content.

Through a deconstructive exercise of form, he generates portraits and artificial hybrid figures, which cast psychic, social and philosophical features that materialize in his paintings, reflecting on themes such as; Contemporary portraiture, identity and social and urban space.

His pictorial process uses mixed media and the search and collection of discarded printed materials from his daily environment that are incorporated into his work, to create a social dermis that supports the painting and strains the form. Painting, drawing and graphics are some of the media that he frequently uses and explores.

His artistic training began at the age of 14 as a self-taught artist, and with more than eighteen years of professional artistic production his work has managed to be housed in various public and private collections indifferent parts of the world such as; Germany, France, Spain, England and Dubai. He has had eight individual exhibitions and twenty-nine collective exhibitions in Mexico, the USA, Canada, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China, among others.