Analyzing the space she inhabits, Alicia Ayanegui paints vignettes of light and darkness within her home to reflect on the meaning of stillness and emptiness. Her work comes from the extended observation and deep analysis of her living space, which she abstracts and reconstructs into seemingly uncomplicated compositions. They act as testimony to the dialogues that unfold between Ayanegui and her surroundings. Her paintings poetically depict yet abstract commonplace objects, such as chairs, pillows, and house plants, inadvertently offering evidence of the person who owns them and revealing their personal history. “These are my things and my experiences: what I feel when I’m there, immersed in a space,” she states.

Alicia Ayanegui was born in 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico, where she lives. She studied Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAP) in Mexico City, Mexico.

Ayanegui has opened solo exhibitions at Campeche in Mexico City, MX (2022); Sala Gam in Mexico City, MX (2022); Kurimanzutto in Mexico City, MX (2021); Galería Olachea in Barcelona, Spain (2021); El Palacio de los Gurza in Durango, MX (2019); and elsewhere.

Her work has been in recent group exhibitions at institutions such as Nixxon in Mexico City MX (2022); Fundación Casa de México en España in Madrid, Spain (2022); Galería JO-HS in Mexico City, MX (2021); OMR in Mexico City, MX (2021); The End Project Space in Atlanta, GA (2021); and Galería Unión in Mexico City, MX (2020).

Ayanegui was selected for the Cobertizo Residency in Jilotepec, MX, in 2020 and received painting scholarships from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) Jóvenes Creadores (2019/2020 and 2021/2022).

Her work has been featured in Artforum and other publications.