Javier Manrique (b. 1958, Tijuana, Mexico) is a San Francisco-based artist whose paintings are about the viewer’s place in space while his graphic work tends to be more of a chronology of time, using figurative images, archetypes, and symbols to give an idea of some situation within time. Manrique works in a variety of art forms including fresco, painting, photography and printmaking. He has participated in biennials and individual and group exhibitions in Mexico and the United States. He began studying art in Humboldt County, California then moved to Mexico to learn printmaking at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking (ENPEG), La Esmeralda, in Mexico City. He later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. Manrique has taught the Complete Fresco Course at the San Francisco Art Institute and California College for the Arts. Manrique lives and works in San Francisco, California.