Antonio Tercero

Born in 1986 in San José del Cabo, Antonio Tercero is a visual artist whose work bridges memory, architecture, and landscape through a deeply personal lens. With a degree in Fine Arts from the State School of Fine Arts in San Luis Potosí, he has continued to expand his practice through national and international courses in visual and plastic arts.

Tercero’s recent paintings trace the evolving visual identity of southern Baja California—exploring the overlap between its natural landscapes and the built environment. His compositions carry the emotional weight of a place shaped by tourism, rapid development, and the quiet tensions between permanence and transformation.

Through softened edges, imagined perspectives, and dreamlike tones, he redefines “vision” not as a fixed point of view but as a threshold where memory, fantasy, and time blur. His canvases invite us to contemplate the emotional topography of a region in flux—a kind of zero hour for both land and identity.

Tercero’s work has earned multiple accolades, including recognition at the UNAM Visual Arts Biennial (2016), the 34th National Young Art Encounter, and Honorable Mentions at the First International Painting Biennial of Mexico and the Carlos Olaechea Visual Arts Biennial (2017). He is also a co-founder of Arte en Neru, a local artist collective dedicated to exhibition-making and community education.

He currently lives and works independently in San José del Cabo. In 2024, his newest series of paintings was exhibited at Hotel El Ganzo in a show curated by Lorena Peña Brito (Chief Curator, Museo Cabañas). His piece “La Choya” remains part of the hotel’s permanent collection.