 Canales presents himself as a technologist, writer and painter His pictorial and plastic work was exhibited in numerous museums and galleries such as the Museum of Glass in Monterrey, Monterrey Museum, Gallery of Mexican Art, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Chapultepec Museum, Museum José Luis Cuevas, all three of them located in Mexico City, Gallery quetzalli in Oaxaca, the Amparo Museum in Puebla (which has an extensive collection of Canales) and Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, among others, he also exhibited his work in Bogota and Paris and developed a plastic work out of glass and clay.He had long stays in Brasil and the United States; in his journeys he found the diversity which has been projected in his work.He started working as an artist when he was 45 years old and without previous studies he started developing experimental methods in order to become self-educated.