césar axel born in mexico. based in vevey, switzerland.
education
| year | record |
|---|---|
| 2021 | mfa in visual arts, école cantonale d’art de lausanne (ecal), lausanne, switzerland. |
| 2015 | ba in digital art and animation, tecnológico de monterrey (itesm), guadalajara, mexico. |
residencies
| year | record |
|---|---|
| 2022 | lieu commun, lausanne, switzerland. |
talks & presentations
| year | record |
|---|---|
| 2020 | a room for two, flowstone, la halle de sébeillon, lausanne, switzerland. |
| 2019 | unesco creative cities network: fostering a strong future for digital artmaking, sxsw festival, austin central library, austin, usa. |
awards
| year | record |
|---|---|
| 2019 | walter & eve kent award for painters, lausanne, switzerland. |
artist-run initiatives
| years | record |
|---|---|
| 2020–2022 | espacio cabeza, artist-run exhibition space, guadalajara, mexico. |
| (co-founded with juan carlos guerrero santos and marco valtierra.) |
exhibitions
| year | record |
|---|---|
| 2025 | tba, can, neuchâtel, switzerland. |
| hearts trained to failure, lokal-int, biel/bienne, switzerland. | |
| douce death, espace contact, neuchâtel, switzerland. | |
| 2024 | love in the between (otters holding hands), giulietta / lumpen station, basel, switzerland. |
| general æsthetics, smallville – espace d’art contemporain, neuchâtel, switzerland. | |
| 2023 | slowdown for the baby, egg art space / zhdk, zurich, switzerland. |
| space invasion 2, galerie fabienne levy, lausanne, switzerland. | |
| 2022 | slowburner, egg art space / zhdk, zurich, switzerland. |
| post contact, rhode island, new york, usa. | |
| 2021 | space invasion, galerie fabienne levy, lausanne, switzerland. |
| 2020 | mark my words, garage gpf, guadalajara, mexico. |
| 2019 | unesco × sxsw, sxsw festival, austin central library, austin, usa. |
| 2018 | had a dream you won’t understand, goodbuy gallery, bucharest, romania. |
| deadline (6th edition), centro cultural fátima, monterrey, mexico. |
languages
| item | record |
|---|---|
| spanish (native). | |
| english (fluent). | |
| french (intermediate). |