Alejandra Laviada

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Artist Bio

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Alejandra Laviada lives and works in Mexico City. Her work explores photography's shifting role and relationship to other artistic media, such as paintng and sculpture. The images she creates emerge from the intersections between these different disciplines, and aim to question and redefine photogrphy's various roles and boundaries.

For each project, Alejandra occupies a differetn site in Mexico City that is in the process of being completely demolished or redeveloped. She photographs her interventions in these spaces, and works only with the objetcsshe finds in each place. The images alter our conception of everyday objetcs, and reflect a city in transition, struggling to reconcile past and future histories.

IN 2010, Alejandra won Mexico's Photography Biennial, and in 2009 was awarded the prestigious Photo Espana Descubrimientos Prize for her Photo Sculpture series. Her work has been exhibited widely, incuding the New York Photo Festival, Art & Commerce's PEEK Festival for Emerging Photographers, and the Hyeres Photography Festival in France. IN 2009, Alejandra was named one of American Photo's Emerging Photographers of the Year. Her work has also appeared in variuos publications, including The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, Wallpaper, American Photo among others.

Alejandra receieved her MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in Mew York, and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a member of the photography collective POC (Piece of Cake: http://www.pocproject.com/)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2010  Alejandra Laviada, Photo España Descubrimientos Prize, Madrid, Spain
2010  Abstractions, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
2010  Alejandra Laviada, Galería Full Art, Seville, Spain
2008  Photo Sculptures, Danziger Projects, New York City
2005  Tito Guizar, Galeria Pasagüero, Mexico City
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2011  Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010 (Traveling Exhibition)  
2010  XIV Bienal de Fotografía, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
2010  The Year in Pictures, Danziger Projects, New York  
2010  Fotorelief, A Picture Saves a Thousand Lives, Milk Gallery, New York
2009  Tenth Show, Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris
2009  Hyeres Photography Festival, Villa Noailles, Hyeres, France
2009  Intimidades: Accesos Públicos/Visiones Privadas, Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City
2008  Helsinki Bienniale, Design Museum, Helsinki  
2008  New York Photo Festival, Chisel, curated by Kathy Ryan, DUMBO, New York City
2008  Foreclosed, The Print Center, Philadelphia
2008  31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, curated by Lumi Tan and Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation
2008  New Photography, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City
2007  PEEK / Art Commerce, multiple locations
2007  Slideluck Potshow X, Sandbox Studios, New York City 
2006  XII Bienal de Fotografía, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City
2006  American Photo Magazine Images of the Year, Splashlight Studios, New York City, NY
2006  Golden Light Awards, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine
2006  Doors, Mirrors, Windows, Visual Arts Gallery, New York City, NY

AWARDS 

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

2009 PHE 09 Descubrimientos Prize, Photo España Festival 

2009 Wallpaper Emerging Photographers of the Year  

2008 American Photo Emerging Photographers of the Year

2007 PEEK, Art Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers

2007 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris

 PUBLICATIONS
 
PHE 2010 exhibition catalogue
Humble Arts Foundation, The Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photography 2009
Hyeres Photography Festival 2009 exhibition catalogue
New York Photo Festival 2008 exhibition catalogue
Accesos Públicos, Miradas Privadas exhibition catalogue
XII Bienal de Fotografía exhibition catalogue
 
Magazines:
The New York Times Magazine; Wallpaper; Modern Painters; American Photo; ROJO; Creative
Review Photography Annual (UK); Capricious Magazine; Grafik; Dumbo Feather (Australia);
Departures;  Serge (Sweden); Celeste Magazine (Mexico); Farenheit Magazine (Mexico)
Architectural Digest; Vanidad (España); Vogue (Korea)