Mauricio Alejo

Mauricio Alejo (born 1969 in Mexico City) is an artist based in New York and Mexico City. His work revolves around photographs and videos recordings of everyday objects, sometimes either cut or painted, set up in absurdist arrangements. [1] He has participated in a total of 57 exhibitions, with his most notable participations being at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Miami Art Central, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the 8th Havana Biennial. He has also participated in solo exhibitions, biennials, and art fairs, mostly in Mexico (a total of 27 times) and the United States (a total of 12 times). Mauricio Alejo's first vertified exhibition was Fotofest 2000,  The Eighth International Month of Photography, at the FotoFest Biennial in Houston, TX, in 2000. Mauricio Alejo’s work has been in at least one museum collection, at Daros Latinamerica in Zurich. >ref<[1]

He has participated in group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts,[2] Miami Art Central, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the 8th Havana Biennial.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Michael Amy, Mauricio Alejo at Ramis Barquet, Art in America, Nov 2006. Archived 2007-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ bronxmuseum.org Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine