Alejandro Almanza Pereda

Alejandro Almanza Pereda Mexico City 1977

Almanza’s experiences living in different parts of Mexico and the United States, ignited his interest in how different cultures perceive both danger and risk. Almanza’s work focuses on concepts of materiality—challenging objects conceptually and physically through sculpture and underwater photography and video. His work explores culturally specific paradigms of safety, danger, and architecture through the juxtaposition of materials and objects. Through these carefully considered makeshift environments, he explores the fragility, value, weight and power of objects, eliciting a sense of tension within the viewer.

Almanza Pereda has a Master’s degree in Arts from Hunter College, New York City. He has had solo shows in institutions such as San Francisco Art Institute; Museo El Eco, Mexico City; Art in General New York City; Stanley Rubin Center, El Paso TX; and the College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio. His work has been featured at the Istanbul Biennial, ASU Museum; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Dublin Contemporary 2011, 6a Bienal de Curitiba Brazil, El Museo del Barrio and the Queens Museum, both in New York. City Alejandro has attended the Skowhegan and Bemis Art Residencies programs and has received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and grants from CIFO, the Harpo Foundation, and Sistema Nacional de Creadores in México. He also received the Harker Award for Interdisciplinary Studies at SFAIl the Theodore Randall International Chair in Art and Design at Alfred University; and the Black Cube Artist Fellowship. His work was featured in Art21 Close-up series. He is currently a member of La Rubia te besa, an art band project. He lives between Guadalajara and Mexico City.

Alejandro Almanza Pereda, 1977, Ciudad de México.

Vive y trabaja entre Guadalajara y la Ciudad de México. Su trabajo se enfoca en crear esculturas, fotografía, video, arte público e instalaciones que enfatizan nuestros vínculos afectivos con los objetos, a través de obras que pueden parecer inestables, inmateriales cuestiona las leyes físicas en que vivimos. Sus estructuras parecen subvertir no sólo jerarquías arquitectónicas y decorativas, sino emocionales y culturales, involucrando a menudo las expectativas y el sentido común del espectador.

Estudió la Licenciatura de Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Texas en El Paso (2005) y la Maestría de Artes Plásticas en Hunter College en la ciudad de Nueva York (2014). Ha expuesto de manera individual en San Francisco Art Institute , Museo Experimental El Eco, México , el Museo de Arte de Zapopan , Arizona State University Museum, Stanley Rubin Center, Texas, College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio, Art in General NY. Su trabajo ha sido expuesto de forma colectiva en 15va Bienal de Estambul, Dublin Contemporary, 6a Bienal de Curitiba, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de Arte Moderno, El Museo del Barrio y el Queens Museum of Art, Centro de las Artes en Monterrey y Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art en Colorado. Ha participado en programas de residencias como Skowhegan y Bemis Center. Ha sido galardonado con el Harker Award for Interdisciplinary Studies del San Francisco Art Institute, Ox-Bow, School of Art and Artists' Residency Artist Fellowship, y fue invitado a ser International Randall Chair en la Universidad Alfred NY. Recientemente fue seleccionado para la Artist Research Fellowship del Museo Smithsonian en Washington DC. Su trabajo ha sido documentado por la serie ART 21. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. Vive y trabaja entre la ciudad de Guadalajara y en la Ciudad de México.