2011

Bio: Mauricio Alejo

Mauricio Alejo was born in Mexico City in 1969. He studied Communication Sciences at Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico and earned his Master of Art from New York University in 2002, as a Fulbright Grant recipient. In 2007, he was a resident artist at NUS Centre for the Arts in Singapore. He has received multiple awards and grants, including a National Grant for young artists from The Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts, and he was a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in 2008. His work was exhibited in the “Project Room” at the ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid in 2007. His work has also been selected for photography biennials in Mexico and Puerto Rico and has been reviewed in important journals, such as Art Nexus Magazine and Art in America. He has exhibited in New York, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and Singapore. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Solo Exhibitions

2009     The Limits of Fiction, Ramis Barquet, New York City.
2007     Space That Is Time, OMR Gallery, Mexico City.
         Project Room, Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO), Madrid.
2006     Crossing a Flimsy Bridge, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York City.
2004     Doubting Saint Thomas, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York City.
         Panoramica, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City.
Disillusion, Lee-Ka sing Gallery, Canada.
2003     Belongings, La Havana Biennial, Cuba.
         Belongings, Photo Paris. Paris.
2002     Six Images for a Better World, Ississ Gallery, Japan.
         Six Images for a Better World, OMR Gallery, Mexico City.
2000     Airport, Ocurrence, espace d’art et d’ essai contemporains, Canada.
         Alien Objects, Fotofest, USA.
1999     Alien Objects, OMR Gallery, Mexico City.

Group Exhibitions

2011    Opening, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico.
2010    Imperial Video, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York.
        Absurdos, Cero Gallery, Madrid.
        3 Color, 320 Siófok, Hungary.
        Hecho en México, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow.
2009    Hecho en Casa, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.
        Don’t Stare at the Sun, CoCA, Poland.
        For You/Para Usted, Daros Exhibition, Zürich.
2008    A-B, MUCA Roma, Mexico City.
        Recursos Incontrolables y Otros Desplazamientos Naturales, MUAC, Mexico City.
        Fotología 6, Laboratorio Interdisciplinario para las Artes, Colombia.
        Grabbing at Straws, Studio Guenzani, Milan.
2007    Fotográfica Bogota 2007, Museo de Bogotá, Colombia.
        Small Talk, The Substation Gallery, Singapore.
        Puntos de Vista, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Bochum, Germany.
        Objects and Desire, NUS Centre for the Arts, Singapore.
2006    El equilibrio y sus derivados, Casa del Lago, Mexico City.
        Deshecho, Casa del Lago., Mexico City.
        Come Closer, Isola dell’arte, Milan.
        Irreducible, Contemporary Short Form Video, Bronx Museum, Bronx.
        Irreducible, Contemporary Short Form Video, Miami Art Central. Miami.
2005    Todo va a Estar Bien, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City.
        Irreducible, Contemporary Short Form Video, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco.
2005    I’m he as you are he as you are me and we are all together, Central de arte, Mexico.
        Declaraciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
        Breve Historia Contada a Mano, Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid.
2004    Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico.
        Personal Space, GAS, New York, NY.
        Cotidianidad Documentada, Huesca Imagen ‘04, Spain.
        Escenas Mínimas, Animal Gallery, Chile.
        Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO), Madrid.
        Postcards from Cuba – A Selection from the 8th Havana Biennial, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway.
2003    Still Life, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
        Mexican Video Extravaganza, Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY.
2002    FIAC 2002, Paris.
        Mexican Contemporary Photography, Lee Ka-Sing Gallery, Canada.
        Intro, Museo Arredamento, Italy.
        Art Educates the World, Sotheby's, New York, NY.
        Contemporary Mexican Photography, The Mexican Cultural Institute, New York, NY.
        10 Mexican Photographers: A Select end-of the Century Generation, Dubois Gallery,
        Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA.
        Nostalgia, OMR Gallery, Mexico City.
        Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO), Madrid.

Grants and Prizes

2008    Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY.
2007    Artist in residence, NUS Centre for the Arts, Singapore.
2001    National Graduate Seminar, New York, NY.
2000    Fulbright Grant for MA studies, New York University, New York, NY.
        Artist in residence, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA.
        Acquisition prize: 1st International Biennial of Photography, Puerto Rico.
        Acquisition prize: XIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Mexico.
1997    Acquisition prize: XIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Mexico.
        VIII Biennial of Photography, Mexico City.
        Grant recipient, National Fund for the Arts and Culture, Mexico.

Education

2002    M.A., New York University, New York, NY.
1992    B.A., Communication Sciences, Universidad Intercontinental, Mexico City.

Published Work and Conferences

2009    Casey Ruble. “Mauricio Alejo at Ramis Barquet”, Art in America.
2007    Federico Monsalve. “Mauricio Alejo, OMR, Mexico City”, Art News.
        Ricardo Pohlenz. “Mauricio Alejo at OMR Gallery”, Flash Art.
2006    Michael Amy. “Mauricio Alejo at Ramis Barquet”, Art in America.
2005    Christopher Ho. “Mauricio Alejo: Doubting St. Thomas”, Modern Painters.
        Estela Treviño et al. 160 Años de Fotografía en México, Oceano de México, Mexico City.
2004    Alexis Fabry and Ramón López Quiroga. Toluca Project, Madrid.
2003    Alejandro Castellote. Mapas Abiertos: Fotografía Latinoamericana, 1991-2002,Madrid.
2002    Francisca Rivero Lake " Mauricio Alejo" Art Nexus Magazine No. 43.
2000    Castro Fernando. “Fotofest 2000”, Art Nexus Magazine No.37.
        NEO2. “Sin titulo” Magazine No.11, Madrid.
        Mallet Ana Elena. “Mauricio Alejo Galeria OMR”, Art Nexus Magazine No.34, Colombia.
1998    Del K’mopa (Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts).“IV Catalog 1998”, Japan.