The FEMSA Collection’s mission is to contextualize art within the challenges that face our planet while generating community through significant, transformative projects that motivate citizen participation.
For more than 45 years, the Collection has promoted, documented, and disseminated modern and contemporary Latin American artworks through temporary exhibitions and a works-on-loan program, as well as through varied educational activities and discussions.
Comprising 1200 works, the Collection illustrates the evolution, complexity, and richness of artistic production in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries, with emphasis on Mexican artistic production.
The FEMSA Collection is part of Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A., a Mexican company that has continually diversified itself over 130 years. Promoting culture is one of the company’s long-held interests, thanks to encouragement from the founding family. The company’s artistic interests materialized in the 1977 formation of the FEMSA Collection, when the founding family donated El maizal (Milpa seca) by Mexican artist Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl). From that moment on, the Collection has grown by acquiring modern and contemporary art from Latin America, with a particular interest in Mexican art.
Colección FEMSA has an image bank of the works that comprise it—a resource intended for researchers, publishers, and art institutions. The Collection is open to lending requests for shows in Mexico and other countries.
If you need a high-resolution image or would like to request a work on-loan, please send an email to coleccionfemsa@difusion.femsa.com