BERNARDO ORDUÑO

SEMBLANCE

The work of Bernardo Orduño Guerra (Guadalajara, 1997) explores the potential of transliteration from a visual system to another through the slippage of oversimplification to prefigure an objective reality haunted by dominance, identity, heritage, extractivism and looting of prehispanic objects.

With those simplistic forms and characters, Bernardo Orduño Guerra creates caricatured hypergraphics to form allegorical tableaux composed of “affiches” in the style of op-art kinetic typography, prismatic style or drawings that whether prefigure a simplistic reading of events to focus on the social content of any reality or to integrate visuals ripped from graphic design history to reflect on both the naïve familiarity of events and the use of such forms in propaganda as visual identity in different historical contexts. The use of historical props along with the role of objects to read and make sense of contexts blur the lines between visions and fantasies to create ambiguous realms that alter the complexity of history, assimilating external realities together to generate new (realistic-plausible) connections between unrelated events.

Bernardo Orduño Guerra uses an extensive range of sources, libraries, historical archives and ethnographic collections (Museo Nacional de Antropología and INAH Jalisco, Mexico, 2018; Museo de la Plata, Argentina, 2019) to build fictional realms that intersect with literature, philosophy and anthropology while questioning the literary approach from which history is constructed or romanticized.

Bernardo Orduño Guerra lives and works in Guadalajara. He is trained as a Conservator-Restorer from the ECRO (Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2022) specialized in archeological ceramics and lithic collection.

Bernardo Orduño Guerra lives and works in Guadalajara. He is a conservator-restorer, having graduated from ECRO (Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2022), specializing in ceramics from ENSAV La Cambre (École Nationale des Arts Visuels La Cambre). In 2025, he graduated with honors from the Master's program in Conservation and Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He has also collaborated with various institutions on the research, conservation, and restoration of heritage objects, such as the National Museum of Anthropology, the La Plata Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. His work draws on multiple sources, including libraries, historical archives, and ethnographic collections, to create fictional scenarios that intersect with literature, philosophy, and anthropology, while advocating a critical stance against any purely literal interpretation of a Romanized construction of history.

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CURRICULUM

Education
2025
Master en Conservación y Exhibición de Arte Contemporáneo (CYXAC) en la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
2022
Licenciatura en Restauración de Bienes Muebles en la Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente (ECRO) / ENSAV La Cambre

Solo exhibitions
2024
MNEMOSINE, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Ciudad de México, MX
2024
Sitio arqueológico El Olvido, Colapso Art Project, Guadalajara, MX
2021
La historia se construye al fragmentar, Not So Fine Art Gallery, Guadalajara, MX

Group exhibitions
2025
ZONAMACO, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Ciudad de México, MX
2024
Lenguajes propios, Colapso Art Project, Guadalajara, MX
2024
Un vacío determinado, Galería Quetzalli, Oaxaca, MX
2024
ZONAMACO, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Ciudad de México, MX
2023
Laboratorio educativo: Los de abajo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, MX
2023
Arqueologías de lo ausente, Club Privado San Javier, Guadalajara, MX
2023
Todos tenemos un statement, Galería Chica, Guadalajara, MX
2022
Playground?, Mazel Galerie, Bruselas, BE
2022
softvoice, todomundo, Guadalajara, MX
2022
Solo foto, Galería Chica, Guadalajara, MX
2021
Indocumentados, Galería Chica, Guadalajara, MX
2021
Transitante 4.0, Galería Chica, Guadalajara, MX
2020
Maroma Colectivo, Ciudad de México, MX

Urban interventions
2020
La Barranca de Huentitán, TRAZA Jalisco: Obra mural en una de las columnas de la líne 3 del tren ligero, Guadalajara, MX

Books as illustrator
2020
Arquitecturas del fuego I y II, Alejandro Guerrero, Artlecta y Galimatías
2020 Cuatro filósofos: Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida y la arquitectura contemporánea, Javier Ruiz de la Presa, Galimatías