Miguel Condé (born 1939) is a Mexican figurative painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.
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Condé was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a Mexican father and an American mother. He split his time between Mexico and the United States until 1948 when he moved to New York with his mother. In 1956 he rented a studio in New York and began to study anatomy with Stephen Rogers Peck. In 1959 he moved to Mexico and a year later married Carola Schisel. In 1963 he was awarded a scholarship by the French government (Bourse d’Etudes Libres) so he moved to Paris where he studied with Stanley William Hayter in his Atelier 17.[1] While in Paris his son Amadeo was born. In 1969 he returned to the United States and was an instructor of drawing and mixed media in the graduate program at the University of Iowa School of Art, Iowa City, Iowa. While living there, his daughter Caëtana María del Pilar was born. In 1969 he traveled to France and then moved with his family to Sitges, Catalonia, Spain.
In 1971 he met Juana Mordó, who offered him his first exhibition in Spain, which occurred in 1974. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he received many honors and awards and continued to exhibit his work around the world.[2] In 1993 he met Dan Benveniste who would become his printer and collaborator.
Condé now lives and works between Madrid and Sitges in Spain.
His work is represented in numerous museums and collections: