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.

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Mexico City, Mexico, 1982.

She studied at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, La Llotja, in Barcelona (2001) and graduated with honors from ENPEG, La Esmeralda, in Mexico City (2002–2007). In 2006, she received the Jóvenes Creadores Grant in the disciplines of painting and printmaking (2014).

In 2020, she held a solo exhibition with White Cremnitz Gallery during the 8th Salón ACME in Mexico City and received the acquisition prize at the XIX Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial. In 2021, she exhibited at Zona MACO with Guadalajara 90210 Gallery, alongside her solo exhibition Aquí y Ahora at El Taller 65 Gallery in Mexico City. In 2022, she exhibited Luminosa Obscuridad with CAM Galería in Mexico City and Voces de Sombra at the Fundación Marek Keller – Jardín Escultórico Juan Soriano in Owczarnia, Poland. In 2023, she presented Jardín Particular with CAM Galería in Mexico City and has continued showcasing her work with the gallery since 2022. She has been a fellow of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) from 2021 to 2024. In 2023, she participated in the Cobertizo Residency in the State of Mexico, as well as in art fairs such as Volta (New York), Positions (Berlin), and Zona MACO (Mexico City). In 2024, she held a solo exhibition at the Museo Franz Mayer and intervened in the museum’s permanent rooms. During MACO, she received an award to participate in the Casa Wabi Residency in Puerto Escondido. “No Name” and exhibited a renewed version of the exhibition “Semillas de Arena y Mar” at the IMJUS, CDMX. In 2025, he participated in Zona Maco with CAM Gallery.

Her work is part of national and international collections, including the Consulate of Foreign Relations in Washington (2021), Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation (2021), Tara Westover (2021), Joshua Sobel (2020), Arthur Zegelbone (2020), Valeria Luiselli (2017), and the Getty Conservation Institute (1997), as well as museums such as the Museo Rufino Tamayo (2020), the VI National Biennial of Yucatán (2014), the Museo de Arte de Sonora (2015), and various private collections.