Roberto Gil de Montes
MFA Fine Arts - 1976
Roberto Gil de Montes ('72, MFA Fine Arts '76), born in Guadalajara, Mexico, came
to the United States in 1965. He received his MFA from Otis, and works in painting,
photography, sculpture and ceramics. ...
Gil de Montes was included in the prestigious Hispanic Art in the US: Thirty Contemporary
Painters and Sculptors which toured the country in the late 1980s. Among the themes
in his figurative and landscape works are his origins in Mexico, life in Echo Park,
Mexican popular art, and the tradition of retablos and ex-voto painting. Among his
public art commissions is a tile fountain at Los Angeles Metro's Gateway Transit Center.
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