Alejandra España
Mexico City, Mexico (1982)
She studied at Escuela de Artes y Oficios, La Llotja, in Barcelona (2001) and graduated with honors at ENPEG, La Esmeralda, in Mexico City (2002-2007), she obtained the Beca de Jóvenes Creadores in painting in 2006 and 2014 in graphics. In 2009 she received an artistic residency at Centro Banff/FONCA, her work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico and abroad in countries such as Germany, Austria, Canada, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Slovenia, France, England, Italy, Peru, Poland and Venice. She has been exhibited in museums and Mexican cultural spaces such as the Museo Rufino Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Carrillo Gil, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola and Museo Experimental El Eco, internationally the Berkeley Art Center in California, USA, SOMarts Cultural Center San Francisco, USA, the Jaén Museum in Valencia, Spain and others. In 2013 her work in animation was the winner of the fourth Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales de Yucatán and she obtained the artistic residency of FONCA/AIR in Vallauris, France. In 2014 her painting was selected in the first Bienal Nacional de Paisaje de Sonora. She has given plastic art workshops in Mexico like Centro Cultural La Curtiduría en Oaxaca and Centro de las Artes en San Luis Potosí. Her book “There was perhaps” by Malpaís Ediciones, was presented in 2018 at the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, and “Eon Loop” was presented in 2019 at the Instituto de Oaxaca IAGO. In 2017, during her stay in Oaxaca, she met Mtra. Aguri Uchida with whom she took Japanese painting classes at the Centro de las Artes San Agustín Etla, in that year she began working on tapestry with artisans and artists from Teotitlán del Valle. In 2020 she exhibited individually at White Cremnits Galería during the 8th Salón ACME, CDMX, and obtained the acquisition price of the XIX Tamayo Biennial. In 2021, she exhibited in Zona Maco with Guadalajara 90210 Galería and her exhibition “Aquí y Ahora” with El Taller 65 Galería in CDMX. In 2022 she exhibited with CAM Galería in Mexico City, “Luminosa Obscuridad” and “Voces de Sombra” together with the Juan Soriano Foundation Gallery, in Poland.
In 2023, she exhibited “Jardín Particular” with CAM Galería, and from 2022 to the present, she has been presenting her work with CAM Galería. She has been a scholar of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) scholarship since 2021. In 2023, she took part in the art fairs Volta (New York), Positions (Berlin), and Zona Maco (Mexico City). In October 2023, she participated in the Art Residency Cobertizo where she produced works for the art fair Zona Maco 2024 and for her retrospective exhibition “En el sueño, la vigilia” at the Franz Mayer Museum in February 2024. She also received a prize from the Casa Wabi Foundation for their art residency, during the Zona Maco 2024. In March of the same year, she presented a bronze sculpture at the Art Fair ABC Baja-Patio (Los Cabos) with CAM Galería. In June 2024, she presented “Semillas de arena y mar” at the Instituto Mexicano para la Justicia (IMJUS) in Mexico City. In October 2024, she will participate in the Art Residency of Casa Wabi, the prize she received earlier in the year, to produce works for presentation at Zona Maco 2025.
Her work is in international collections such as the Washington Consulate of Foreign Relations (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 and the Museo Rufino Tamayo (2020), VI Yucatan National Biennial (2014 ), Museo de Arte de Sonora (2015) and other private collections such as Carla Rippey, Edgar Orlaineta, Teresa Marmolejo, Ana Elena Patiño, Miguel Ángel Cordera, Pierre Azan, Eric Namour, among others.