César Gordillo borned in Mexico City in 1958 and has lived in Irapuato, Guanajuato, since 2010.

He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and Fine Arts at the Escuela de Puntura , Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"  and the School of Arts at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla.

He earned a Master's degree in Cultural Heritage Research at the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, where he received a CONACULTA scholarship for his research on pigments and artistic materials, allowing him to conduct an academic research stay in the Conservation Department of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.

He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Art at the University of Guanajuato, where he is developing his thesis "Poetics of Space: Indisciplinary Interactions between the Visual Arts and Architecture."

He has been painting with watercolor since 1980, studying with architects René Capdevielle, Vicente Mendiola, and Mtro. Alfredo Guati Rojo has also participated in workshops with leading watercolorists such as Andy Evansen, Janine Gallizia, Pedro Cano, Marc Folly, Amit Kapoor, Álvaro Castagnet, and Prafull Sawant, among others.

He received the Tlacuilo trophy in 1988 and 1989, awarded by the Mexican Society of Watercolorists and the National Museum of Watercolor, and in 1998 the acquisition prize in the Color and Paper Watercolor Competition, sponsored by SUNCHEMICAL.

He is currently a member of the Mexican Society of Watercolorists and the IWS Mexico/San Miguel de Allende, and since 2023, he has been part of the organizing team of the Plenair IWS Competition in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

He has participated in national and international group exhibitions with the Mexican Society of Watercolorists and the IWS Mexico, and has had solo exhibitions in Mexico City in 1999 and in Puebla in 2002.

His work has been published in The Art of Watercolor magazine No. 55, edited and published in France, and is part of the permanent collections of the Museo Nacional de la Acuarela, the Museo de la Acuarela del Estado de México, the Colección de Periódicos Síntesis de la Ciudad de Puebla, and the Walter Anderson Art Museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.

His academic training supports and explains his current work and research in the urban and natural landscape, as well as his personal exploration of traditional and contemporary watercolor techniques and materials.