At the age of seven, Ulises Canales Sáenz told his parents that he had decided to write the numbers from zero to a million in a notebook, a task he complete in a few months. As well as carrying out extraordinary projects involving numbers, he displayed great artistic ability, and his parents soon began to realize that their son stood out from other children of his age.
In 2001, when he was in his late twenties, Ulises was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, for which he was prescribed medication, and he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. While there, he drew, producing extraordinary works. Over the next seven years, Ulises was hospitalized on numerous occasions. Throughout this period, he continued to draw whenever possible.
Ulises had his first solo exhibition in 2013. Held at the Centro Cultural Fundación Lo Prado, the show “The Mind of Ulises” was curated by Isidora Moulián Munizaga . A year later, in 2014, Ulises was contacted by the director of the Halle Saint Pierre Museum in Paris. This led to Ulises’s participation in the 2015 group exhibition (The Sketchbooks: Drawing in all its States) at the Halle Saint Pierre.
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