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Thursday, April 20 • 4:30pm - 6:15pm
Convocation and Awards Ceremony with Keynote Speaker Alejandro Cartagena

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Alejandro is a self publisher and co-editor and has created several award wining titles including Insurrection Nation, Studio Cartagena 2021, Santa Barbara Save US, Skinnerboox, 2020, A Small Guide to Homeownership, The Velvet Cell 2020, We Love Our Employees, Gato Negro 2019, Santa Barbara Shame on US, Skinnerboox, 2017, A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, The velvet Cell, 2017, Rivers of Power, Newwer, 2016, Santa Barbara return Jobs to US, Skinnerboox, 2016, Headshots, Self-published, 2015, Before the War, Self-published, 2015, Carpoolers, Self-published with support of FONCA Grant, 2014, Suburbia Mexicana, Daylight/ Photolucida 2010. Some of his books are in the Yale University Library, the Tate Britain, and the 10×10 Photobooks/MFA, Houston Library among others.

Cartagena has received several awards including the international Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, the Street Photography Award in London Photo Festival, the Lente Latino Award in Chile, the Premio IILA-FotoGrafia Award in Rome and the Salon de la Fotografia of Fototeca de Nuevo Leon in Mexico among others. He has been named an International Discoveries of the FotoFest festival, a FOAM magazine TALENT and an Emerging photographer of PDN magazine. He has also been a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Award and has been nominated for the Santa Fe Photography Prize, the Prix Pictet Prize, the Photoespaña Descubrimientos Award and the FOAM Paul Huff Award. His work has been published internationally in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Nowness, Domus, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Le Monde, Stern, PDN, The New Yorker, and Wallpaper among others. //

Alejandro Cartagena nace en República Dominicana en 1977. Vive y trabaja en Monterrey México desde 1990. Cursó la Maestría en Artes Visuales de la UANL. Su trabajo se centra en la exploración del paisaje y el retrato como herramientas de observación de las construcciones culturales, sociales y políticas que conforman las sociedades latinoamericanas.

Ha exhibido de manera individual en México, China, Estados Unidos, Italia, Inglaterra, Canadá y Guatemala y ha participado en más de 50 exposiciones colectivas en países de América, Asia y Europa. Su trabajo se ha publicado en revistas como Wallpaper, Monocle, Financial Times, The New Yorker, PDN, New York Times, American Photography y Domus entre otras. Su libro Suburbia Mexicana fue editado por Daylight y Photolucida en el 2011.

Sus obras están en colecciones públicas y privadas como la del San Francisco MOMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, El MFAH de Houston, el MOCP de Chicago, y el MAM de Rio de Janeiro. Ha sido becario del programa jóvenes creadores del Fonca/Conaculta, ha recibido el premio Book Award de la fundación Photolucida, premio Lente Latino en Chile, premio del Insituto Italo-Latinoamericano en Roma, fue finalista del premio Porfolio Prize de Aperture en NY y del Premio Prix Pictet en Inglaterra. Fue nombrado uno de los 30 fotógrafos emergentes por la revista neoyorkina PDN y un Talent de la revista FOAM en Ámsterdam.

Ha publicado varios libros entre los que se encuentran Insurrection Nation, Studio Cartagena 2021, Santa Barbara Save US, Skinnerboox, 2020, A Small Guide to Homeownership, The Velvet Cell 2020, We Love Our Employees, Gato Negro 2019, Santa Barbara Shame on US, Skinnerboox, 2017, A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, The velvet Cell, 2017, Rivers of Power, Newwer, 2016, Santa Barbara return Jobs to US, Skinnerboox, 2016, Headshots, Self-published, 2015, Before the War, Self-published, 2015, Carpoolers, Self-published with support of FONCA Grant, 2014, Suburbia Mexicana, Daylight/ Photolucida 2010.

Su trabajo es representado por la galería Circuit gallery de Toronto Canadá, Kopeikin gallery en Los Ángeles y Galería Patricia Conde en México.

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Thursday April 20, 2023 4:30pm - 6:15pm CDT
Alberto 3/4 Av. Juárez 70, Colonia Centro, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06010 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico