Ramón Peñaloza

Ramón Peñaloza doesn't chase trends. He chases truth. The last direct disciple of maestro Gilberto Aceves Navarro, he inherited more than technique—he inherited an entire attitude toward painting, one that honors instinct as much as intention.

Over two decades, he's built a practice where chance and surprise find form, even within realism. His work lives in that rare space between gesture and contemplation, where the canvas becomes a meeting ground for what we plan and what arrives uninvited.

At La Buena Mancha, his downtown Mexico City studio, Ramón continues the master-disciple tradition through life drawing sessions, exhibitions, and gatherings—passing forward what was given to him.

He's a founding member of Quinto Piso, a collective devoted to free creation and camaraderie. His work has appeared at Palacio de Bellas Artes Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Mexico, the Museum of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca, and SomoS Gallery in Berlin.

For Ramón, the communion of colors on canvas recalls the meaning of religare—to reconnect, to bind together. Painting, for him, is an act of union. An act of love.

His paintings remember too.