ARTIST BIO:Born on august 21 1982 in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, Edwin Calderon has been drawing strange human forms since a very early age. Drawings from his youth reveal an obsession with creating strange human forms and changing body parts around making strange biological combinations that preoccupied most of his childhood teachers. These drawings showed distorted perceptions of his childhood, a fascination with dead bodies, deformed creatures, and mad looking eyes. His offbeat point off view and growing up in one of the most violent border towns in Mexico have shaped the strange portraits he makes. .