Siegrid (Moreno) Wiese

Born May 20, 1980 in Mexico City, Mexico, moved to Oaxaca city at age of one. 

Siegrid Wiese is recognized as an Oaxacan artist of German descent with an impressive trajectory for such a short one. As a child, Wiese prefers to scratch walls and escapes in her imaginative world with an ardor to express herself. Her mother gifts her first set of colored pencils at age 6, and from there, she builds on her fervor for art—reimagining the miniscule details of the illustrations in her children's books and cartoons on television. Throughout her development, these details and characters begin to evolve in her subconsciousness and become the expressions of her environment and emotional self-perception.

In 1999, Wiese completes a degree in Computer Science to satisfy her parents' requests and enters her first drawing course at the Benito Juárez Cultural Foundation, which leads her to a serious visual arts career at the “Rufino Tamayo Plastic Arts Workshop. ” Teachers, such as Hiiro Yoshida, Juan Gómez, and Vlady (Vladimir Victorovich), train her in drawing, printmaking, and painting. But, it is not until her studies under Niscias Aridjis that she is prompted to use theoretical color techniques and principles of abstract informalism. Niscias teaches her to "savor the process," to find richness in the expression of color and paint material itself. By 2002, Wiese is selected as a participant in the 2nd Pacific Biennial "Paul Gauguin" of the Autonomous University of Guerrero.

Wiese and other avant-garde artists living in Oaxaca formed the group of painters Taller 910 in 2000. They were inspired and found much instruction by painting side by side, and it was then when Wiese decided to fly on her own and learn to formally draw to design her own trajectory. She established life-drawing sessions in Oaxaca and, with the help of the inspiration she finds in the library of the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca—the largest collection of art books in Latin America—she immerses the figure in her works. She especially admires the work of Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Francisco Corzas and is inspired by their mystical, alchemist and psychological characters; however, Wiese plays with inserting large painted areas, like the Rorschach test, to find protagonists as illusions of her persona.

In her work, we can observe self-portraits in each character, seeds of fertility of emotions, feelings, ideas, and hopes for a better future. She negotiates the manipulation of nature as an ethereal and fragile symbol for humanity. She exhausts emotions.

Due to her personal concern to show works with erotic themes, which have been perpetually rejected by the current market in Oaxaca, in 2012 Wiese created the annual Erotic Festival in Oaxaca. As of today, she has exhibited her work in more than 50 exhibitions in different parts of the Mexican Republic, the United States and Europe.