(Mexico City, 1981)

Ortiz moves between silence and surface.

Armed with an MFA in Visual Art from UNAM’s Faculty of Arts and Design, his work is less a product of training than of tension—between control and collapse, clarity and critique. From an early age, a relentless internal scrutiny shaped his relationship with image-making, compelling him to master the technical language of his medium while quietly dismantling its rules.

After graduation, he disappeared.

Ten years of deliberate absence—a self-imposed exodus—offered space to unravel and rewire his practice. Design, with its systems and grids, became a parallel universe. Emotion and concept became twin engines. What emerged was not a return, but a re-entry: slower, sharper, stranger.

Ortiz paints in conversation with ghosts. Rivera, Siqueiros—their walls speak, and he listens. But his is a different rhythm, fractured by Cubist echoes and bent through the lens of contemporary theory. UNAM taught him how to deconstruct aesthetics; he chose to rebuild them in fragments, informed by critical thought and radical form.

What remains is a practice that resists stasis. An evolving inquiry, stretched across time and canvas. A gesture repeated until it ruptures.

Artist Statement

Moises Ortiz navigates the intersection of Cubist legacy, Italian Futurism and the raw immediacy of post-graffiti aesthetics, forging a visual language that is both reverent and rebellious. His practice re-imagines the ideologies of modernism, using experimental media as a means of disruption and dialogue—between structure and spontaneity, history and now.

At the heart of Ortiz’s work lies a rigorous exploration of essential form. Shapes become signals; arrangements, rhythms. Each composition is carefully orchestrated, yet alive with emotional undercurrent and conceptual tension. This deliberate balance allows him to fuse the gestural force of abstract expressionism with a quiet, introspective intensity—rendering each piece a site of personal excavation as much as visual invention.

His works don’t simply ask to be seen—they ask to be entered. They invite contemplation, pause, and the possibility of transcendence. Within their layered abstractions, Ortiz offers viewers a space to encounter the sublime in the unexpected, to trace meaning not in narrative, but in the nuance between gesture and geometry.