Feliciano Peña was born in Silao, Guanajuato, April, 25, 1915 and moved to Mexico City in 1926. He began his career as a painter at the Escuela al Aire Libre of Tlalpan directed by Tamiji Kitagawa and Francisco Díaz de León in 1927. On his early production one can see a primitivism, excellent in drawing and plenty of color, his culmination was a Selfportrait. Later, he was dedicated himslef in landscape. Peña was member of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists. In 1933, he presented his first solo show at the Ministry of Public Education´s Art Room. He received an acquisition prize at the Annual Salon of Painting held by the Salon de la Plástica Mexicana. He was a founder of it as well as of the Sociedad Mexicana de Grabadores in 1947.
