Arteria Chiapas
Arteria is dedicated to emerging and established artists that are asking critical questions about not only their work, but the context – cultural, social, political – within which they are creating it. They favor young, Mexican artists but also hold space for international artists of all stripes. Their exhibits are multimedia merging photography, sound, sculpture, painting, video and installation art.
LeK Museo – Arte – Galería
The LeK Museum and art gallery is a contemporary art museum with both permanent and temporary collections and a rooftop restaurant space to enjoy a drink or snack after you browse. They feature artists such as Beatriz Gaminde, Carmen Parra, Gerardo Cantú, Guillermo Ceniceros, Hermenegildo Martínez, José Luis Cuevas, Juan Manuel de la Rosa, Luis Filcer, María Esquerra, Martha Chapa, Oliver Esquivel, Raúl Anguiano, and Sebastián. Many of the pieces on display are for sale.
Galería MUY
The word muy in the Maya language, tsotsil, is the root of the word pleasure and this gallery’s mission to provide a platform for local artists working in Maya and zoque art forms and languages. This makes their exhibitions and programs very specific to their region of Chiapas and they offer their multimedia exhibits to rural indigenous communities in the form of roving art expositions. They also have an artists’ residency program.
Enzue, Open Art Studio
A Work in Progress │© Enzue Durán
Galería Studio Cerrillo
Studio Cerrillo opened to the residents of San Cristobal back in 2002, way before there was the amount of galleries that the town now houses. They have hosted artists from around the world in over 75 different shows and are currently working with a concept called “shrink the gallery” in which every subsequent show at the studio reduces its pyshical size by 10cm, making artists’ display of their work in an ever shrinking space even more creative and challenging.
Colectivo Mudra
Mudra is a collective art space shared by several local and emerging artists where they display their work and offer classes, workshops and talks to the larger public. There’s a small store where you can buy pieces by the collective’s artists and the occasional theater production.
Av. Cristóbal Colón 31B, Escaleras, Barrio del Cerrillo, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico +52 967 631 6691
Galeria Mexicana de Diseño
Beau Dégât
Miguel Hidalgo 4, Zona Centro, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
