About me
RODRIGO CHÁVEZ SALAZAR
Mexican watercolor artist, b. 1984, Mexico City. Lives and works in Morelos, Mexico.
Trained in architecture, Rodrigo Chávez Salazar has developed a sustained watercolor practice since 2007, exhibiting in Mexico, France, Brazil, and Italy. His work is held in private and institutional collections. He is a member of the "Sociedad Mexicana de Acuarelistas".
His practice explores landscape: urban, architectural, and territorial, as a space of memory and identity. Working with transparency, controlled washes, and the white of the paper as active elements, he builds images that seek not literal representation but the symbolic and historical weight of a place. He considers watercolor a rigorous contemporary language capable of holding past and present simultaneously.
Selected Awards & Exhibitions
- 2026 — Fabriano in Acquarello, Italy
- 2025 — 1st Place, Landscape category, IWS 4th International Watercolor Contest, San Miguel de Allende
- 2025 — 3rd Place, Urban Landscape, 2nd Festival Ríos de Color, Mexico City
- 2024 — 2nd Place, Festival Plein Air Cholula, Puebla
- 2022 — Solo exhibition HITOS, Museo Legislativo Sentimientos de la Nación, Chamber of Deputies, Mexico City
- 2022 — Honorable Mention, 14th Premio Sociedad Mexicana de Acuarelistas
- 2011 — 3rd Encontro Internacional de Aquarelistas, Paraty, Brazil
- 2011 — 5th Salon de l'Aquarelle de Haillan, France
- 2010 — Honorable Mention, XII Salón Estatal de la Acuarela, Morelos
- 2008 — 4ème Salon International de l'Aquarelle, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France
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