CÁNDIDA PEÑA
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Jagarhaus // Fall of 2022.
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SHORT BIO
Cándida Peña is a renowned artist and architect from Puebla, Mexico, whose career spans over fives decades.
While teaching architecture and design in Puebla, Mexico, Cándida also worked on her own building and restoration projects with her architecture and design practice.
When Cándida decided to move to Rome, Italy she started her career in art. She trained with several accomplished mural artists before moving back to Mexico to study fine arts.
Cándida has subsequently lived and worked in New York and Berlin, Germany and has been appointed ambassador to several Mexican cultural organizations. Notably, she worked for Frank Gehry on the museology for the “Puente de Vida: Museo de Biodiversidad” project exhibition in Panama City.
Cándida founded the art and design gallery “Cándida Peña Arts” in Los Angeles in 2004. She has worked as key artist on many of Jagar’s large scale restaurant projects such as Frida Restaurant Glendale in Americana and Casa Azul in Westwood, among many other private residential, commercial and institutional projects.
Cándida holds an architecture degree from the BUAP Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla and a fine arts degree from UDLAP Uiversidad de las Americas Puebla.
MURALS IN RESTAURANTS
VARIOUS LOCATIONS - LOS ANGELES / MEXICO CITY
MURALS AT RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
PRIVATE RESIDENCE LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
PAINTINGS
VARIOUS COLLECTIONS AND FORMATS - 20” / 160”
CONTACT
Tel. 310 3917646