Was born in La Palma, Michoacán, México, on August 30, 1947. In 1969 he began his career as an artist at the National School of Paint and Sculpture “La Esmeralda” at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico city. During his artistic studies he collaborated with world recognized artists.

Victor Hugo Castañeda is an outstanding sculptor. Since his early work, his expressionist sculptures have captured the image of man. They unfailingly give expression to a mood, whether of pleasure and delight or of tragedy or an assault on reason.

His art has won him a place of honor among Mexican sculptors. With his work, in which women too are a product of sublimation, Castañeda achieves poetic heights that are both beyond suspicion and unsuspected.

The women´s different forms expressed in bronze achieve vitality, emotion, fierce eroticism, and also an ability to communicate, to converse silently with the sensitive observer.