About the artwork:
Alejandro García Contreras’ densely packed artworks synthesize imagery from legends, anime, pre-Hispanic symbology, supernatural beings, religion, and more. By merging the ancient with the contemporary, he connects truths across expansive timelines and reveals how humanity’s recurring symbols and beliefs express our deepest fantasies and nightmares. Contreras’ oeuvre guides us to a collective consciousness, creating a holistic ode to our infinite nature and encouraging us to embrace a new spiritual universality.
Alejandro García Contreras characterizes his creative work as a form of experimentation and dialogue between different materials and resources through mediums like painting, sculpture, photography, video, and graphics. His artistic projects are inspired and informed by contemporary popular culture, Mexican folklore, myth, occultism, religion, and other themes.
About the artist:
Alejandro García Contreras characterizes his creative work as a form of experimentation and dialogue between different materials and resources through mediums like painting, sculpture, photography, video, and graphics. His artistic projects are inspired and informed by contemporary popular culture, Mexican folklore, myth, occultism, religion, and other themes.
Alejandro García Contreras was born in 1982 in Tapachula Chiapas, MX. He holds a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the National Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes) in Mexico City, Mexico.
García Contreras has held solo exhibitions at Gamma Galleria in Guadalajara, Mexico; David Castillo in Miami, FL; Albertz Benda in New York, NY; House of Gaga in Guadalajara, Mexico; Travesia Cuatro in Mexico City, Mexico; Saenger Galería in Mexico City, Mexico; and Eito Eiko in Tokyo, Japan, among others.
García Contreras has been selected for artist residencies such as Noborigama in Areguá, Paraguay (2023); Estudio 797 in Guadalajara, Mexico (2021); Cabra Casa Brasil in Guadalajara, Mexico (2020); Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico (2020); Unlisted Projects in Austin, TX (2019); Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico (2016); S.S. Gilroy in Los Angeles CA (2016); and Atelier de Création in Québec, Canada (2013).
He has received awards from Artfest International World Trade Center (2006) and the FONCA Jóvenes Creadores (2009, 2014).
