Andrés Lhima

About

Andrés Lhima is a Mexican industrial designer with a figurative, playful and functional style. His products have been sold and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art store in New York (MoMA Design Store N.Y. and Tokyo) at the Maison & Objet and More fair in Paris and museum stores in Mexico such as the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Museo Amparo, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Museo de Artes y Diseño Franz Mayer, Museo del Objeto del Objeto (MODO), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo and at the emblematic Casa Estudio of architect Luis Barragán. One of his first designs, Fidencio Sillón, was selected to be part of the prestigious design collection of the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, being the only Mexican designer with this distinction. He was selected to exhibit his work at Salone Satellite as part of the 60th anniversary of Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, where he presented the Mama Canguro sugar bowl. At the same event, he was included in the Satellite Awards competition with his emblematic Fidencio Armchair, which is also part -along with his Penguin vases- of the Salone Satellite collection. His work has been exhibited in museums in Mexico, Austria, France, China and the United States such as the Denver Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design in New York (MAD), The Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design in Washington D.C., the Museum of Crafts and Popular Art (CAFAM) in Los Angeles California, the Museum of Contemporary Art 516 Arts in Albuquerque New Mexico in the United States, The Beijing Art Museum in China, El Dorado Lille 3000 event in France, the Universal Joanneum Museum in Graz Austria, the Franz Mayer Museum of Art and Design, National Museum of Art of the INBA (MUNAL), University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUCA), National Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Contemporary Art Rufino Tamayo, the Nishizawa Gallery and the José Luis