The youngest of a family of ten brothers and sisters (which includes Javier Marín, colleague and brother), Jorge Marin inherited his passion for the fine arts from his father, a well-known architect. He left Uruapan, Michoacán to live in Mexico City when he was seven years old. Marin recalls his early years in the town of Uruapan as something like living in “Macondo,” the mystical town in Gabriel García Márquez novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.