Alejandra España

Statement

From drawing and painting, installations, artist's books, ceramic pieces, collages, and tapestry, my practice explores the changing nature of memory and the cultural links between notions about origin. With references to landscape and its abstraction, imagination constitutes the poetics of these detachments and dissections to rethink how we relate to the surroundings, and objects and how they become projective tools of knowledge. Hence, it can be linked to social phenomena; in a constant search for the construction of our perception of reality and its consequences.

Resume

Mexico City, Mexico, 1982.

Alejandra España studied portrait sculpture at La Llotja, Barcelona (2001), and earned a BA in Visual Arts at La Esmeralda (2002–2007). She has exhibited her work extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout Mexico, in museums such as the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, the Museum of Mexico City, the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, the Museum of the City of Querétaro—with the group exhibition Suceder: Beyond the Mined Field and the Pictorial Territory (2024)—and the Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato in León, with the group sculpture exhibition Sueños escultóricos en una noche de verano (2025).

In 2024, she presented her SNCA project Semillas de arena y mar at the Ex Convento Betlehemita in Veracruz, as well as En el sueño la vigilia, a solo exhibition and intervention in the permanent galleries of the Franz Mayer Museum. That same year, she participated in Zona MACO Art Baja California and Zona MACO CDMX with CAM Galería, where she was awarded an artist residency prize at Casa Wabi (December 2024).

In 2025, she again participates with CAM Galería in Zona MACO CDMX and, within the framework of the fair, presents El centro es su periferia, an exhibition of oils and inks shown during Zona MACO 2025 from February 2 to 11 at Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City. She is also part of the group exhibition Sueños escultóricos en una noche de verano at the Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato in León, presenting bronze sculptures on view from October 10, 2025, to February 8, 2026. In 2026, she will undertake an artist residency at 68projects by Kornfeld in Berlin, continuing her pictorial and sculptural research in dialogue with international contexts.

She participates for the fourth time in the exhibition No Name and presents a renewed version of Semillas de arena y mar at IMJUS CDMX. Her work is held in international collections such as the Consulate of Foreign Relations in Washington (2021), the Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation (2021), Tara Westover (2021), Joshua Sobel (2020), Arthur Zegelbone (2020), Valeria Luiselli (2017), and the Getty Conservation Institute (1997) in the United States, as well as the Rufino Tamayo Museum (2020), the 6th National Biennial of Yucatán (2014), the Sonora Museum of Art (2015), and the Casa Wabi Foundation Collection (2024), among other public and private collections.