Susana Noriega

Susana Noriega Rivero (born 1952) is a Mexican avant-garde painter, whose work is located in the abstract expressionist and surrealist movements.

Biography Noriega was born in Mexico City. She studied advertising and psychology, but in 1971, her artistic interests led her to attend the workshops of masters such as Raúl Anguiano and Rodolfo Nieto.

After her work was featured in a series of collective exhibitions, Noriega's first solo exhibition, in the Alliance Française at San Ángel in Mexico City, opened on April 27, 1979. According to a review in the Mexico City paper Novedades, the exhibition consisted of 38 graphite and mixed technique paintings, and the launch was attended by the Cultural Under-Secretary-General with the French Embassy, Patrick Abecasis. The exhibition ran until May 10.

Exhibitions She went on to exhibit, either individually or collectively, in the following venues and galleries: Galería Estela Shapiro, Mexico City, 1980 Centro de Estudios en Ciencias de la Comunicación, Cuidad de Mexico, 1982, 1983 Secretaría de Cultura y Bienestar Social del gobierno del estado de Querétaro (today Instituto Queretano de la Cultura y las Artes), México, 1985, 1986, 1987 Casa de Cultura de Toluca, State of Mexico, 1991, 1992 Centro Cultural Juan Rulfo, Mixcoac, Mexico City, 1996 Mandarin House Restaurant Exhibition Hall, San Ángel, Mexico City, 1996, 1997 Misrachi Gallery, Oaxaca, México, 1998 Casa de las Campanas de Tlalpan, Mexico City, 1998, 1999, 2000 X-Dada Exhibition Center, 2001 Constante y Asociados Gallery, 1999, 2000, 2201, 2002 Casa de la Cultura Jaime Sabines, Galerías Adán y Eva, Mexico City, 2002 La Cueva de Bouchot, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 The painter's studio, 2006-2013 Goiko Arte, online gallery, 2013-2018 Café-Arte, Guadalupe Inn, Mexico City, 2014 Centro Cultural Juan Rulfo, Mixcoac, Mexico City, 2016

Other work Since the 1960s, Noriega has contributed her paintings to different media, such as magazines Plural and Sí para Jóvenes, and newspapers El Sol de Querétaro and El Sol de Toluca. She has also illustrated short-story and poetry collections.

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