Sergio Peraza

Sergio Andres Peraza Avila is a Mexican sculptor.

His academic education is "Ceramic shell and bronze casting seminar" at the Fine Arts University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1992), the Academia of San Carlos/Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National University of Plastic Arts), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, in 1986-87 he studies Graphic Design at Autonomous University of Guadalajara.(UAG) Jalisco, Mex.

In 1988 he joined the International Conference on Public Sculpture at the Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. In 1990 a Collective artshow “Primera Jornada Cultural” at the Acapulco Plaza Hotel with Tamayo, Anguiano and Cuevas works, he was the youngest artist on that show, and became a celebrity in Acapulco newspapers. In 1991 Sergio was co-author with his brother Humberto of the three bronze monuments of 8ft. (2.46m) each dedicated to Ricardo Palmerin, Guty Cárdenas and José Domínguez, Mexican Bolero composers and songwriters of Yucatán. These statues are in the front of the Museum of the Yucatan Music in the city of Mérida. Next year 1992 makes the bronze monument of 7ft. (2.15m) to Ruben Pabello, newspaper director of the city of Xalapa, Mexico, and joins as member to the International Sculpture Center of Washington, DC.

In 1993, Sergio was in touch with several buddhist associations in Mexico City, so he realized and produced the Multimedia Installation “The liberation of the Smogmen” (66x21x12 ft.(2.3x6.5x7m)) sponsored by Amnesty International and ecological groups, in one of the lasts fabrics which closed in the south of Mexico City. Then he became video director and producer of “Gaden Shartse Monks, the Mexico experience ”Artvideo for Mexico's Tibet pro-human rights association, Tibet’s House, New York, NY.

In the winter of 1994 was the debut solo exhibit, oneman's show of his own work “Los Perazos de Peraza”, first retrospective of all sculpture, painting, engraving and drawing works, at the centro cultural veracruzano in Coyoacan. Based on a small maquette by his father Humberto Peraza "ojeda", Sergio makes the technical development and enlargement to 10ft. (3.1m) of the monument in honor of the actor Mario Moreno, the well-known "Cantinflas"; this sculpture is exposed in the bullring of Mexico City and is the unhique bronze sculpture signed by Perazas father and son.