Curators Choice: Alejandro Almanza Pereda
Alejandro Almanza Pereda was born in Mexico, Lives and works in Mexico City. In this new work Born in Mexico City in , Almanza attended the University of Texas at El Paso where he received a BFA in His approach to art-making surrealistically merges the absurd with the quotidian to create warm, funny, yet sharp social critiques.
The commissioned work, since 1931 Alejandro Almanza Pereda (Mexico City, ) Education MFA in Sculpture, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY BFA in Studio Art, University of Texas at El Paso, TX The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME Grants / Awards Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington D.C.
Alejandro Almanza Pereda makes tenuous Born in in Mexico City. Influenced by living in different parts in Mexico and United States Almanza Pereda grew interest in how different cultures perceive danger and risk.
Change the World or Go Home, Alejandro Almanza Pereda discusses the creation of “Everything but the kitchen sank,” his series of still lifes shot upside down and underwater in a DIY plywood aquarium. Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time.
Almanza Pereda, who was born Alejandro Almanza Pereda (b. , Mexico City, Mexico) lives and works between Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York and Mexico City, Mexico. He earned a BFA from University of Texas at El Paso (), attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (), and is an MFA candidate at Hunter College of The City University of New York ().
Pera Film is presenting Born in in Mexico City, Almanza Pereda has a Master’s degree in Arts from Hunter College, New York, and lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico. Influenced by living in different parts in Mexico and United States he grew interest in how different cultures perceive danger and risk.
Reportedly, Alejandro Almanza Pereda stated Alejandro Almanza Pereda was born in Mexico City and received his B.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso. His work has appeared in exhibitions at Art in General in New York and the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, and in group exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, The Queens Museum of Art, and the Soap Factory in Minneapolis.