Nicholas De Jesus

Nicolas De Jesús Amates was first introduced to his craft by his father Pablo, an artisan in the Nahua village of Ameyaltepec, Guerrero, Mexico, where De Jesús was born. De Jesús creates etchings printed on amate, a fibrous taupe-coloured paper made from tree back that was used by indigenous societies in the pre-Columbian period to produce sacred manuscripts.

With wit and satire, De Jesús uses laughing skeletons that mock humans going about their daily lives--in the subway, at exhibition openings, in the streets--as well as several images of the Day of the Dead in order to reveal a deep political awareness of local and global issues such as transgenic agriculture, repression, migration and war. De Jesús also creates works that illustrate a whimsical life from his childhood home.

He has successfully exhibited in various cultural centres principally, Chicago, as well as other art centres of the United States, Mexico, France, England, Japan and Holland.

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