Victoria Montesinos was born into an illustrious and creative family in 1944, her father being the well-known Mexican movie director Fernando A Rivero. Because her parents traveled frequently, she led a restricted life with a stern grandmother, but this isolation afforded her the opportunity to draw, an activity that became her escape.   Fortunately, her father recognized her creative talents and arranged to have her study with the great Spanish master Jose Bardasano who had recently moved to Mexico, a refugee of the Spanish Civil War.   At twelve years old she entered the master’s newly formed painting academy where for five years she studied the rigorous veladuras technique of painstakingly building up texture and depth through many fine layers.  At the same time, she pursued the normal academic subjects of a teenage schoolgirl.  

       In 1983, Victoria moved to the US.   There she worked with Circle Fine Art Galleries (at that time, one of the most prestigious gallery chains in the country).  Within their American Atelier (in New York City), she developed important skills in the centuries old art of lithography.  The editions that Circle produced of her work quickly sold out.   This created a huge demand for original art; in a short time she sold over three hundred original oil paintings. She moved to New York in the mid-1990s and started to concentrate on painting flowers—now her signature trademark.  “Flowers are a small universe,” she declared.  “I feel captured by their beauty.   They show the infinity of existing colors.”

       She has exhibited widely in Mexico, Europe and various cities in the US, in both group shows and one-woman exhibitions.   Among her collectors, she counts Loni Anderson, Burt Reynolds, Restaurante Arno (New York), Luis Echeverria Alvarez (former president of Mexico), Gold Bank (Kansas), Juan Ferrara (actor) and many others.   She has participated in important museum exhibitions in Mexico such as Museo de Antropologia, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Acambaro,  and the Art Museum of the National Treasury..
 

Individual / Group Exhibitions
 

2004 – 2008 Solo exhibitions at Fingerhut Galleries in La Jolla, Laguna and Sausalito, CA.

2003 Animazing Gallery, New York City

2002 Gallery at the Promenade, Naples, Fl.

1999 – 2002 The Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas

1984 – 1990 Multiple exhibitions with Circle Galleries throughout US including New York, DC, Chicago, Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, Miami, West Palm Beach, New Orleans, Houston, Hawaii

1971 – 1994 Individual exhibitions throughout Mexico including Mexico Town Council Palace and Mexican Consulate, New York City

1976 – 1978 International Group exhibitions in Germany, Holland, Spain, Mexico and US

1973 – 1984 Numerous group exhibitions throughout Mexico