Exhibition of Dyg’Nojoch
at Espacio MUY

This multimedia exhibition, collectively curated by the MUY team together with the artist, includes eight paintings in various formats, reflecting a personal and communal concern with redefining contemporary Maya art today.

We celebrate a festival orchestrated by Dyg’Nojoch, featuring diverse forms of art from “his tribe”: a performance by Maruch Méndez (a prayer), poetry by Marcelina Rodríguez, poetry by Xun Betan, and music by Mero Jastuk — all of them of Tsotsil origin. The exhibition also presents an on-screen compilation of his street artworks created in different parts of the country.

Dyg’Nojoch is one of the Tsotsil creators who has contributed most to the reinvention of urban Maya art. He is originally from Yavteclum and was born in 1989, to a father from Chenalhó and a mother from Mitontic. At an early age, Dyg’Nojoch went to live with his mother in Jobel and settled in the Northern Zone, the area with the highest levels of Tsotsil and Tseltal migration in the Highlands. After finishing high school, he entered the University of the Highlands of Chiapas, where he studied Graphic Design.

He became acquainted with the urban hip-hop tribes and worked as a B-boy, practicing breaking. However, after injuring his arm, he had to leave dancing behind and turned to art as a form of therapy. He developed his skills by learning different urban techniques, such as street art and graffiti, which he combined with his academic knowledge of graphic design.

In 2011, his artistic career received an important boost when he was selected for the book De mi barrio a tu Barrio, published by the Goethe-Institut. It was the first time he traveled outside Chiapas to paint. Subsequently, Dyg’Nojoch traveled to different parts of Mexico, creating murals in Oaxaca, Puebla, Coahuila, Querétaro, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Mexico City, where he exhibited a masterpiece commemorating 100 years of Mexican muralism at the San Ildefonso Museum. Outside Mexico, Dyg’Nojoch has participated in group exhibitions in Germany and Guatemala, and his work has been presented in Las Vegas and New York.

Dyg’Nojoch is a principal promoter of the “GAM” (Graffiti, Mural Art) project, which since 2017 has been creating murals with national and international guests in the outskirts of San Cristóbal. The artist’s favorite format is large-scale work, with a particular preference for walls, guided by the philosophy that art is for everyone.

Dyg’Nojoch emphasizes that popular art is, in reality, medicine for the soul, the ch’ulel. At the same time, the artist expresses himself through more intimate works on canvas using acrylic and spray paint. In this series of paintings, he seeks to think about and reflect on the origins of the history of the Maya-Tsotsil people while living in the city.

Dyg’Nojoch’s ingenious combination of classical and contemporary elements, infused with irony and a rebellious, proud sense of humor, is truly unique. “Art makes us more sensitive; it brings us together,” says Dyg’Nojoch.

Espacio MUY
August–November 2026