Elena Gómez Toussaint

She studied painting and drawing at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda", and at "L" Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. She has participated in various workshops with Betsabé Romero, Alfonso Mena Pacheco, Gabriel Macotela, Carla Rippey, Magali Lara and Roberto Turnbull. With her work she has participated in various solo and group painting and engraving exhibitions in Mexico, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Ireland. Among her artistic activities are the creation of costumes for the play "Egmont" (National Theater Company 2009), for the play "The Cherry Blossom" (National Theater Company, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City 2001) and for the Opera “Rigoletto” (Teatro del Bicentenario, León Guanajuato 2013, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City 2014). Her work has been selected at the Diego Rivera Biennial (1994), José Guadalupe Posada Print Biennial (1995), Monterrey Femsa Biennial (2001), Alfredo Zalce National Biennial (2011). She currently lives and works in Mexico City.