A sculptor with a long career dating back to the 1980s, he is known for his works that evoke ceremonial objects with a vertical aesthetic and pre-Hispanic motifs. The artist uses natural materials and motifs to create his works, which are rooted in the Mayan worldview and its acantes: stones that were placed at the four outer points of cities as a form of protection or surveillance. For this reason, there is something testimonial, totemic, and spiritual about the large figures presented by the artist. Galán works with stone, wood, steel, and glass.

1981 – Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design from the University of Monterrey /UDEM WORKSHOPS • June 2008 Glass Art Workshop (Painting with Light) Monterrey Glass Museum, Nuevo León • June 1996 TEACH SHOP Forge in Metal Road Island School of Design Providence Road Island, Advisor: David A. Court • August 1994 TEACH SHOP Metal Finish Academy of the Arts. • San Francisco, California, Advisor: Harry Powers • Feb. 1993 TEACH SHOP, Patination II California, College of Art and Crafts. • Oakland, California, Advisor: Ron Young • May 1992 TEACH SHOP, Carving Stone University of the Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Advisors: Paul Glasgow, Christoph Spath • January 1992 TEACH SHOP, Metal Sculpture Fabrication San Antonio ART INSTITUTE • San Antonio, Texas, Advisor: Dan Daykes

2021. Arts Center, Witnesses of Silence. Comprising 20 small and large-format pieces.

2021 Home of Mercy Work entitled The Great Promise

2016 Success Stories 2016 University of Monterrey
Monterrey, Nuevo León

2014 Plaza Fátima Cultural Center – Series; San Pedro Garza García

2009 Drexel Gallery; San Pedro Garza García

2004 Contemporary Mexican Art Gallery; San Pedro Garza García N.L.

2003 Emma Molina Gallery

2000 JUAN MARTIN Gallery; Mexico City

1997 Museum of the Arts; Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

1996 Arte Actual Mexicano Gallery; San Pedro, Garza García, N.L.

1995 Museum of Monterrey; Monterrey N.L.

1994 Exhibition to benefit Hogar de la Misericordia Serfin Financial Center; San Pedro Garza García, N.L.

1993 Drexel Gallery; San Pedro, Garza García, Nuevo León

1992 “Mar y Mármol”; Cavie / Saltillo, Coahuila

1991 “Mar y Mármol”; Nuevo León House of Culture; Monterrey, Nuevo León

1993 Arte A.C.; Monterrey, Nuevo León

2025 Transcendences 1995-2025 Anniversary Art Dealers Art Gallery

2025 Home of Mercy – piece The Great Promise 2.30 m high

2024 New Dawn Institute Auction “Encountering the Sensitive”

2024 Constelaciones Art Fair

2025-2015 al encuentro de la sensible
Auction to benefit the Nuevo Amanecer Institute
Marco Museum, Monterrey, Nuevo León

2015 Octavio Paz in Art
Collective exhibition at the Hogar de la Misericordia
Plaza Fatima Cultural Center.

2015 Sculpture – El Universo Pavilion, ALFA Planetarium; ArtDealers Art Gallery

2014 Plaza Fatima Cultural Center; Fifty Artists, One Impulse; San Pedro Garza García

2013 Plaza Fatima Cultural Center; “Looking at Our Past”; San Pedro Garza García

2012 Centro de las Artes II; “Paraphrases, Interpretations of a Great Work”; Monterrey, Nuevo León

2012 San Pedro Pulse Review 01; El Centenario Museum; San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León

2011 Centro de las Artes II; “The Self-Portrait”; Monterrey, Nuevo León

2011 50 Artists, One Impulse; Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León

2010 Centro de las Artes II; Mexico, Infinite Landscape; Monterrey, Nuevo León

2009 Centro de las Artes II; Melancholy: The Power of Creation; Monterrey, Nuevo León

2009 MACAY Host of National Art; Yucatán Museum of Contemporary Art

2008 Centro de las Artes II; “Mexican Toys in Art”; Monterrey, Nuevo León.

2008 Encounter with the Sensitive; Marco Museum; Monterrey, Nuevo León.
2008 Hands that See; Carlos Prieto Auditorium, Fundidora Park, Monterrey, Nuevo León

2007 Alfa Planetarium, “The Magic of the Universe”: San Pedro Garza García

2007 Encountering the Sensitive; MARCO Museum, Monterrey, Nuevo León

2007 Artists for Artists Plastic Arts of Nuevo León PINACOTECA DE NUEVO LEON

2006 Center for the Arts II “Morada del Alma” Monterrey, Nuevo León

2005 Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey “Paisaje del Deser” Monterrey, Nuevo León

COLLECTIONS:
PINACOTECA DE NUEVO LEON, Monterrey, N.L.
MUSEO DE MONTERREY, Monterrey N.L.
CENTRO CULTURAL, ARTE AC, Monterrey N.L.
CASA CANDINA, San Juan, Puerto Rico

MUSEO DE LAS ARTES, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
ARTE AC, Monterrey, N.L.
MUSEO DE HISTORIA MEXIACANA, Monterrey, N.L.
UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTERREY .Monterrey N.L.