Sergio Peraza

Sergio Andres Peraza Avila is an artistsculptor from Mexico.

Sergio Peraza Avila's academic education is in "Ceramic shell and bronze casting" at the Fine Arts University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1992). He also studied at the Academia of San Carlos/Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National University of Plastic Arts), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City and in 1986-87 he studied Graphic Design at Autonomous University of Guadalajara.(UAG) Jalisco, Mexico.

In 1988 he joined the International Conference on Public Sculpture at Trinity College.

In 1990 Peraza Avila had a Collective artshow called “Primera Jornada Cultural” at the Acapulco Plaza Hotel with Tamayo, Anguiano and Cuevas works; he was the youngest artist at the show, and became a celebrity in Acapulco newspapers.

In 1991 Sergio was co-author with his brother Humberto of the three bronze monuments of 8 ft. (2.46m); each dedicated to Ricardo Palmerin, Guty Cárdenas and José Domínguez; Mexican Bolero composers and songwriters from the Yucatán area of Mexico. These statues are in front of the Museum of the Yucatán Music in the city of Mérida. In 1992 Sergio made the bronze monument of 7 ft. 2.15m)dedicated to Ruben Pabello, newspaper director in the city of Xalapa, Mexico, and became a member of the International Sculpture Center in Washington, DC.

In 1993, Sergio became acquainted with several Buddhist associations in Mexico City, he then created the Multimedia Installation “The liberation of the Smogmen” (66x21x12 ft.(2.3x6.5x7m)); sponsored by Amnesty International and an ecological group, in one of the last fabricclarity which closed in the south of Mexico City. He then became video director and producer of “Gaden Shartse Monks, the Mexico experience”, an artvideo for Mexico's Tibet human rights association, Tibet’s House, New York City.

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