Alejandra Laviada

1980: Born in Mexico City, Mexico

2003: Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

2007: Master of Fine Arts Photography, Video and Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, United States; Lives and works in Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2021: Ensamble, Chic by Accident, Mexico City, Mexico

2019: Painted Geometries, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Geometrías Pintadas [Painted Geometries], ZONAMACO, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Mexico City, Mexico

2017: Geometry of Space, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, United States

2014: Geometry of Space, galería Alarcón Criado, Sevilla, Spain; Alejandra Laviada, FIAC (Off)icielle, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2013: Photo Sculptures, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, United States

2012: De-constructions, Guatephoto, Guatemala city, Guatemala

2011: Re-constructions, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2010: Alejandra Laviada Premio Descubrimientos, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain; Abstractions, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico; Alejandra Laviada, Galería Alarcón Criado, Sevilla, Spain

2008: Photo-Sculptures, Danziger Projects, New York, United States

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2022: L’Etranger, Patricia Marshall Fine Art - NO NAME, Paris, France; Luces y Sombras: Images of Mexico, Works from the Bank of America Collection, Tacoma Art Museum / El Paso Museum of Art, United States

2020: BPAC Photo, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Luces y Sombras: Images of Mexico, Works from the Bank of America Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, United States; Modern Women, Tampa Art Museum / Cincinnati Art Museum, United States

2018: New Vision/New Generation: Luigi Ghirri/Andrea Grútzner, László Moholy-Nagy/Alejandra Laviada, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, United States

2017: Point / Counterpoint: Contemporary Mexican Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, United States; Reveal and Detonate: Contemporary Photography In Mexico, Mint Museum, Charlotte, United States; In Focus/Enfoque: Karina Juarez, Humberto Rios, and Alejandra Laviada, LaCa Projects, Charlotte, United States Projects, Charlotte, United States; Landscape and Interventions, Hathaway Gallery, Atlanta, United States; Collective Thinking, For Freedoms, Aperture Foundation, New York, United States

2015: Develar y Detonar, Photography in Mexico ca. 2015, Photo España, Madrid / Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico; Existe lo que no tiene nombre, San Francisco Camera work, United States; Todo por ver, Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, Mexico

2014: (un)real, Maddox Arts Gallery, London, Great Britain; Landmark, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, United States; Du Sud au Nord, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain c/o Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden; Creación en Movimiento: FONCA Jóvenes Creadores 2012-13,Biblioteca de México, Mexico

2013: Diálogo con un paisaje Forum Cultural, Guanajuato, Mexico; After Alvarez Bravo Museo de America, Madrid, Spain; Laatikkomo:Six Degrees of photography, Finland; 1825 DAYS, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Ensamble: Alejandra Laviada y Omar Rodriguez-Graham, Diagrama, San Rafael, Mexico City, Mexico; Intro, Fototropia Gallery, Guatemala, Guatemala

2012: Perfect Imperfect, SLP Amsterdam, Netherlands; A New Index for Indoctrination, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico; Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States; Contemporary Mexican Photography, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, United States; Second Nature : Abstract Photography Then and Now, De Cordona Museum, United States; Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Critical Mass 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

2011: Accross the divide, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, United States; Georges Eastman House Benefit Auction, New York, United States

2010: XIV Bienal de Fotografía, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico; The Year in Pictures, Danziger Projects, New York, United States

2009: Tenth Show, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Hyeres Photography Festival, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France; Intimidades: Accesos Públicos/Visiones Privadas, Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, Mexico

2008: Helsinki Bienniale, Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Chisel, New York Photo Festival, New York, United States; Foreclosed, The Print Center, Philadelphia, United States; 31 Under 31 : Young Women in Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, Brooklyn, United States; New Photography, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico

2007: PEEK, Art + Commerce, New York Festival of 24 emerging Photographers, New York, United States; Newly Released, SVA MFA Photography Thesis Show, Westside Gallery, New York, United States; View, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, United States

2006: XII Bienal de Fotografía, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City, Mexico; American Photo Magazine Images of the Year, Splashlight Studios, New York, United States; Golden Light Awards, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine, United States; Doors, Mirrors, Windows, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, United States

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESIDENCES

2012: FONCA Jóvenes Creadores Grant 2012-13

2010: XIV Biendal de Fotografía, Acquisition Prize, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico

2009: PHE 09 Descubrimientos Prize, Photo España Festival, Madrid, Spain; Wallpaper Emerging Photographers of the Year

2008: American Photo Emerging Photographers of the Year; 31 Under 31 : Young Women in Art Photography

2007: PEEK, Art + Commerce, New York Festival of 24 emerging Photographers, New York, United States; PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention, Paris, France

2006: XII Bienal de Fotografía Mexico, Honorable Mention; American Photo Magazine Images of the Year, Honorable Mention / Personal Work

PUBLICATIONS (selection)

2017: Point/Counterpoint: Contemporary Mexican Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, United States (exh.cat.); Alejandra Laviada, Geometry of Space, Blue Sky Books, Portland, United States; Alejandro Castellanos, Imaginario: Colección y archivo de Fundación Televisa, RM + Fundación Televisa, Mexico City, Mexico; GR-02092017, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway (exh.cat.)

2015: Develar y Detonar / Reveal and Detonate, Centro de la Imagen, Conaculta, Mexico (exh.cat.); Existe lo que no tiene nombre: Contemporary Photography in Mexico, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, United States (exh.cat.)

2014: Hossein Amirsadeghi, Contemporary Art Mexico, Thames and Hudson, London, United Kingdom; Alejandra Laviada, Photographs - Alejandra Laviada, Blue Sky Books, Portland, United States

2011: Susan Bright, Art Photography Now (Second Edition), Thames and Hudson, London, United Kingdom

2010: Abstracción Temporal, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico (exh.cat.); Photo España 2010 Catalogue, La Fábrica, Madrid, Spain (exh.cat.)

2009: Alana Celii, Jon Feinstein, Grant Willing, The Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, United States; Hyères 2009 : 24e festival international de mode et de photographie, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France (exh.cat.)

COLLECTIONS

Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States

Bank of America Photography Collection, United States

Centro de la Imagen, Mexico

Fundación Televisa Collection, Mexico

Kells Collection, Spain

Fidelity Art Collection, United States

Colección Banregio, Mexico

Gensollen Collection, Marseille, France