Mauricio Alejo was born in Mexico City in 1969 where he currently lives and works.
He attended a Master in Arts in New York University (2000-2002) through the support of Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship. His work has been exhibited at La Havana Biennial, the Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan de Puerto Rico, The Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid in Spain and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in SF. in California, among other venues. He attended an artist residency at NUS, National University of Singapore for site specific projects. He has been recipient of several grants from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las artes in Mexico and The New York Foundation for the Arts. His work is part of several public and private collections, among others, Daros Latinomérica Collection in Zurich; Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C. the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, MUAC in Mexico City and the Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection.
About ‘Catalog’ – words by Mauricio Alejo:
This work engages with the practice of studio photography and makes reference to the specific history of commercial image production. These are self-conscious images that acknowledge its means of production while presenting sculptural happenstances that stand ambiguously between art endeavor and catalog execution. I’m fascinated by the purpose driven motto of commercial photography, its lack of mystery and deadpan way of presenting things. What fascinates me the most is how easily this structure can be short-circuited by simply making it depict ambiguity and uselessness.
