Julio Galán

From his provincial origins in the small northern Mexico town of Múzquiz, Coahuila, to his meteoric rise in Manhattan's East Village art scene, to having achieved international standing at the time of his early death at forty-seven, Julio Galán was radically transgressive. The artist extended contemporary Mexican painting beyond the cultural criticism of Neo-Mexicanism ( neomexicanismo ), redefining Mexican identity as gender-expansive in his art. Galán combined gender-fluid imagery, his perform