20 Mexican painters

José de Alcíbar, or Alzíbar was a Mexican painter, of Basque origin; active from 1751 to 1801.

Sergio Arau, also known as "El Uyuyuy", is a Mexican musician, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, film director, film producer, music producer, cartoonist, animator and painter. He is the son of film director Alfonso Arau.

Juan Correa (1646–1716) was a distinguished Mexican painter of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. His years of greatest activity were from 1671 to 1716. He was an Afro-Mexican, the son of a Mulatto or dark-skinned physician from Cádiz, Spain, and a free black woman, Pascuala de Santoyo. Correa "became one of the most prominent artists in New Spain during his lifetime, along with Cristóbal de Villalpando." Manuel Toussaint considers Correa and Villalpando the main exponents of the Baroque style of painting in Mexico. Correa was a very productive religious painter, with two major paintings in sacristy of the Cathedral of Mexico City, one of the Immaculate Conception and the other An Allegory of the Church. He also painted major works for the Jesuit church in Tepozotlan, Mexico. According to Toussaint, Correa is "important in achieving a new quality, in the creative impulse he expresses, and which one cannot doubt embodies the eagerness of New Spain for an art of its own, breaking away from its Spanish lineage. Here New Spain attains its own personality, unique and unmistakable." Correa was José de Ibarra's teacher.

Manuel Felguérez Barra was a Mexican abstract artist, part of the Generación de la Ruptura that broke with the muralist movement of Diego Rivera and others in the mid 20th century.

Jorge Figueroa Acosta is a Mexican painter and sculptor born in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. He studied at the National School of Plastic Arts Academy of San Carlos, regarded as the best school of arts in Mexico, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Roger von Gunten is an artist and sculptor, originally from Zurich, but in 1980 became a naturalized Mexican citizen. He was the subject of a 1978 essay by Jomí García Ascot and was part of the Breakaway Generation which emerged after World War II ending the Mexican Muralist era. For over a decade, he was involved in a legal battle over who defines what is art. He has participated in over 200 national and international art exhibitions and won the 2014 Fine Art Medal from Mexico.

Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez was a Mexican painter, known primarily for portraits. He also worked in Colombia, for twenty years.

José de Ibarra (1685–1756) was a Mexican painter, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and died 21 Nov 1756 in Mexico City, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

José Joaquín Magón was a late eighteenth-century Mexican painter from Puebla de los Angeles.

Myra Landau was an artist and abstract painter involved in art research. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she was known largely for the work she made in Brazil, then Mexico for many years and later in Italy, Israel and The Netherlands.

Rafael López is an internationally recognized illustrator and artist. The illustrations created by López bring diverse characters to children's books and he works to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people. As a children's book illustrator, he has received three Pura Belpré Award medals from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA in 2020 for Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln, Drum Dream Girl in 2016 and Book Fiesta! in 2010. He was chosen by the Library of Congress to create the National Book Festival Poster and has been a featured book festival speaker at this event.

Jorge Marín is a Mexican sculptor and painter. He has been an active figure in the contemporary art world for the last 25 years. He began to sculpt ceramic in the early 1980s. Bronze has been his preferred material for the last ten years. His work often depicts horses, centaurs, garudas, children, madonnas, acrobats, along with elements such as spheres, masks, wings, arrows, boats and scales. These concepts are consistent with recurring themes such as reflection and balance.

Leticia Ocharán (1942–1997) was a Mexican artist and cofounder of several museums.

Fernando Garcia Ponce (1933–1987) was a Mexican architect and abstract artist who belonged to the Generación de la Ruptura. García Ponce is best known for his abstract paintings and collages, most of which utilize structured and geometric forms rather than organic shapes.

Virgilio Ruiz Fernández is a Spanish-Mexican painter, representative of the neo-realist and neo-naturalist schools of painting in Mexico. His work is strongly influenced by the Spanish and Flemish Renaissance and baroque European traditions and the Mexican Expressionism. He is a supporter of the recovery of painting techniques from these periods and its learning and development in modern art in Mexico.

Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich Rusakov was a Russian-Mexican painter, known simply as "Vlady" in Mexico. He came to Mexico as a refugee from Russia together with his father, writer Victor Serge. Attracted to painting from his exposure in Europe, Vlady quickly became part of Mexico's artistic and intellectual scene, with his first individual exhibition in 1945, two years after his arrival to the country.

Juan Carlos del Valle (born 1975) is a realist painter. He alters icons from contemporary myths, such as processed food, toys, and fantastic narratives. From 2004 to 2017 he presented more than forty exhibitions throughout Mexico, the United States and Peru. More recently, his work has addressed relational art, which employs and addresses social and human relations.

Cristóbal de Villalpando was a Baroque Criollo artist from New Spain, arts administrator and captain of the guard. He painted prolifically and produced many Baroque works now displayed in several Mexican cathedrals, including the cathedrals in Querétaro and Mexico City, as well as a depiction of the Zócalo in Mexico City, showing the damage of the 1692 riot to the viceregal palace three years earlier.

Francisco Zenteno Bujáidar was a painter, illustrator, muralist and graphic artist. He co-founded Tepito Arte Acá, one of the first organizations of the Los Grupos movement. He also founded organizations such as the Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de México to promote Mexican art and artists.