Arnaldo Coen was born in Mexico City in 1940. Belonging to the Ruptura generation, he was awarded the highest artistic recognition in Mexico, the National Prize of Sciences and Arts for “his work linked to painting, space research, music and the theory of contemporary art that has allowed him to innovate and influence various generations ”; Likewise, among other recognitions for his excellent career, he is named a Full Member of the Academy of Arts and Titular Member of the Seminary of Mexican Culture.

He has exhibited individually in the National Hall of the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico, among many other museums and galleries on four continents.

He has carried out multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and indisciplinary environments, interventions and projects. He is the conceptual creator and director together with two other artists of the intervention, action and filming of "Robarte el Arte" in 1972 that took place at Documenta V in Kassel, Germany.

Important art critics and writers such as Octavio Paz, Raquel Tibol, Carlos Monsivais, Juan García Ponce, Salvador Elizondo, Teresa del Conde, Singrunn Paas, Josephine Siller, among many others have written about his work. And this endorses the artistic position that the artist has taken since its inception: "Art as an expressive medium where it is essential to be authentic in order to capture their experiences and thoughts through matter." It is a conquest of freedom capable of communicating through abstraction and figuration a spiritual and formal universe.

Arnaldo Coen has been an artist who through his vision and his works has generated a contemporary image of Mexico in the world. He has been part of the tutorials of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, and has demonstrated his commitment to the new generations of young artists, who have and will continue to be influenced by the members of the generation of "La Ruptura" so that they become themselves agents of change and become integral artists and knowledgeable about their processes.

The work of Arnaldo Coen, in addition to being permanently exhibited in the most important museums in Mexico, to give an example, was only exhibited in the last quarter of 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art, Jumex Museum, Alameda Art Laboratory, Museo del Chopo, Casa del Lago, UAM Xochimilco, Black Box, MUAC University Museum of Contemporary Art of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, among others.