Miguel Najera is a Mexican painter whose easel and mural style is expressionism. His paintings are mixed media on canvas, cardboard, panel or paper. He began his art instruction with a teacher who was a student of the painter Diego Rivera.
Miguel Najera Loera was born September 13, 1946 in the city of Acapulco, Mexico. He moved to Tijuana in 1955 when he was only eight years old. In the early of 1970's, he returned to the south of Mexico on a scholarship to improve and sharpen his artistic skills. He worked in the only mural studio under the tutelage of the atelier of David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Loera was an art teacher in the Tijuana Cultural House, and his art was exhibited in the Tijuana Cultural CenterRepresenting the best of the local arts community, artists who have been popular at previous Art Fests, include Carlos Coronado, Álvaro Blancarte, Miguel Najera, Juan Ángel Castillo, Valra, Franco Méndez Calvillo, María Evangelina Rodríguez and David Silvah. Each of these artists has been previously honored with solo exhibits in important cultural spaces such as “Cubo Gallery” at the Tijuana Cultural Center and the Museum of the Living Artist in San Diego, California.