Antonio Pelayo is a self-taught Mexican American contemporary artist whose work explores identity, memory, migration, and nostalgia through the lens of his bicultural upbringing between Mexico and the United States. Among the last working Disney inkers trained in the studio's traditional hand-ink-and-paint process, Pelayo brings a nearly lost animation craft into contemporary fine art through layered works that combine pencil photorealism with hand-painted animation cels.
His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), the Academy Museum, the Walt Disney Family Museum, Disney Animation Studios, the Leon Trotsky Museum in Mexico City, and the Modern Art Museum of Armenia, and is held in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Roy Disney, Danny Trejo, Christian Hosoi, and Jaleel White. His work has been featured by the Los Angeles Times, PBS, ABC, and Disney, earning him nearly 100 city, state, and arts awards throughout his career.
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