Origin: Mexico City, Mexico

Based in: Mexico City, Mexico

Year of birth: 1959

José Cacho is a Mexican contemporary artist whose practice is defined by experimentation, material layering, and a refined symbolic visual language. Multiple gallery and artist-profile sources identify him as born in Mexico City in 1959, where his artistic foundations were first shaped.

His work is distinguished by a richly layered approach that combines materials such as acrylic, inks, pigments, charcoal, pastel, graphite, metallic leaf, stencils, paper, and oxide powder across surfaces including canvas, wood panel, acrylic sheet, mirror, metal, and paper. This material diversity gives his works both visual depth and a strong tactile presence, positioning his practice between classical craft and contemporary experimentation.

Across recent bodies of work, Cacho has explored the human condition through symbolic, often figurative compositions, with recurring attention to the feminine as a source of life, knowledge, harmony, and transformation. Recent exhibition descriptions also emphasise his interest in exploration itself: not a fixed theme or single technique, but an open-ended process of testing, combining, and expanding his visual language