As 2025 draws to a close, San Diego Red is recognizing the standout contributors of the year. In the Cultural Figure category, the spotlight shines on three young artists who have reshaped Tijuana’s creative landscape: Trillizos Torres Pacheco (the Torres Pacheco Triplets).
Leonel, Lorenzo, and Luis Torres Pacheco, born in 1996 in Tepic, Nayarit, have adopted Tijuana as the canvas for their most compelling works. Over the past decade, these brothers have emerged as leading voices in a new generation of visual artists, celebrated for their captivating, visually dense style.
The triplets operate as a singular creative force. Their art draws from everyday life and shared experiences, blending figurative, surreal, metaphysical, and fantastic influences with striking hyperrealist and photo realistic touches.
The brothers honed their craft while earning Bachelor’s degrees in Visual Arts at the Autonomous University of Baja California in Tijuana. Their studies were supported by a scholarship from the Build A Miracle Foundation, which provided essential materials.
In 2018, they completed an artistic residency at the M.A.C. House Leusden Museum in the Netherlands, where they unveiled their exhibition Relationships and Human Emotions and led workshops across Dutch cities. That same year, they received Tijuana’s Municipal Youth Award for Expression and Artistic Development.
By 2019, their accolades multiplied. They earned an honorable mention at the 22nd Baja California Visual Arts Biennial and took second place in thr Digital Photography category at Italy’s Ventipertrenta International Digital Art Festival.
Their impact on Tijuana was later recognized when they were named “Citizens of the Year” by Grupo Salinas’s Advisory Councils.
“The Life of Tijuana”: A Collaborative Mural Featuring the Triplets
One of their most visible local projects is the massive collaborative mural La Vida de Tijuana. Inspired by Diego Rivera’s Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central, the mural was initiated over a decade ago by local merchant José Aguirre Lomelí and artist José Joel González Navarro. Recently, the triplets joined the effort, adding detail and completing unfinished sections.
The mural now features roughly 1,000 portraits of Tijuana’s most iconic figures from artists and media personalities to prominent business leaders creating a vibrant, living chronicle of the city’s identity.
Torres Pacheco Triplets: Exemplary Talent
The Torres Pacheco Triplets exemplify collective artistic practice within the contemporary art scene, having developed a coherent and consistently shared vision throughout their career.
Their work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, spanning local, national, and international venues. They have shown at various institutes, galleries, and alternative spaces across Mexico—including Baja California, Chihuahua, and Mexico City—as well as internationally in California, USA; the Marche region of Italy; Leusden, Netherlands; and Tehran, Iran.
