Mario was born 1952 in Mexico City. By helping his father, a photographer, he learned quite a lot about this exiting profession. He was interested in artistic techniques from an early age (drawing, modeling with clay, engraving…). At age thirteen he entered a children's school of fine arts at the Bellas Artes Institute. Later at age twenty he moved to Altepeje/Puebla to study the weaving techniques with reed (carizo) and began to experiment with metal frames … and traveled to the United States to acquire special equipment for autogenous welding and other tools.

In 1973 he visited the renamed artists Ana Pellicer and James Metcalf in St.Clara de Cobre/Michoacán and became student of the couple for some time learning techniques of metalworking. Later he installed his own artisan factory in the town of Ihuatzio/Michoacán on the shore of Lake Pátzcuaro. Here he began to combine manufacturing wire structures with the traditional craft of chuspata weaving (chuspata is a vegetal fiber like wicker that grows in abundance on the shores of the lake).

Little by little the factory evolved thanks to the help of some friends and to it's innovative products that are much sought after by national and international costumers, so much that now many of the people who have worked with Mario have opened their own business.

Nowadays these “chuspata furniture and animals ” are seen and accepted as original art from Ihuatzio. Mario continues applying new designs and techniques and thus contributes to the fact that a considerable number of craftspeople and students are being inspired to find and cultivate their own creativity.