TRAVESÍA CUATRO is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2003 by Silvia Ortiz and Inés López-Quesada. They opened their first space in Travesía de San Mateo number 4, in Madrid. Since the beginning, the gallery had an international vocation that began to deepen and strengthen the bond between the art scenes of Europe and Latin America. It progressively forged a close relationship with the Mexican scene, especially through the contact with artists related to the city of Guadalajara, and the ZonaMaco fair in Mexico City. 

Ten years later, in 2013, the gallery opened its second space in Guadalajara, in Casa Franco, designed in 1929 by architect Luis Barragán. In 2019 the gallery opened a third location in Mexico City. The presence in Mexico has become determinant for the development of new projects, some of them linked to historical artists who have become part of the gallery’s program.

During this time, TRAVESÍA CUATRO has reflected the diversity of discourses that exist between these contexts, facilitating a dialogue that has greatly enriched Spanish art scene. In 2020, the gallery created Bajo el Sol program: a platform dedicated to the dissemination of voices coming from the Global South, whose work and lines of thought expose or vindicate social, ecological and cultural alternative models, with a contemporary and transversal approach.