Edgar Cano began his creative exploration while making illustrations and backdrops for the theater program during his studies at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. Over more than a decade of his artistic career Cano’s work has been shown in various national and international competitions. He has had twelve solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, and has participated in more than forty-five collective exhibitions in various cities inside and outside of Mexico. His work has been exhibited internationally in Argentina, England, Italy, Canada, United States, Japan, Sweden and Serbia. Selected awards include: the acquisition prize of the III Biennial of Visual Arts of Veracruz (2016), the acquisition prize of the XVII Biennial of Painting Rufino Tamayo (2016), the Prize for the IX Biennial of Painting Alfredo Zalce (2014), and a prize for the XVII National Engraving Contest José Guadalupe Posada (2010). As well, in 2018 he was part of the Selection Committee of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA (MX). He is working in his new painting project “Tragame tierra 2021-2024” supported by the SNCA Mexico. Cano currently lives and works in Louisiana, USA. Statetment: The language of painting has a wide range of possibilities; through expansive, at its core it seeks to fulfill a noble objective of generating reflection and dialogue. In my creative work I seek to produce an emotion in the viewer which is felt at a core level. I wish to use the practice of oil painting on linen to become another invention of myself.