Alejandro CARTAGENA
アレハンドロ・カルタヘナ
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban, and environmental issues. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums including the San Francisco MOMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The MFAH in Houston, the Portland Museum of Art, The West Collection, the Coppel collection, the FEMSA Collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others.
Publications
2021 - Love and Politics Volumes I – VI
2021 - RomaRoma, (coming soon 2021)Lost Rivers, The Velvet Cell
2021 - Car Show, Los Sumergidos
2021 - Insurrection Nation, Studio Cartagena
2020 - Santa Barbara Save US, Skinnerboox
2020 - A Small Guide to Homeownership, The Velvet Cell
2020 - Built to Ruin: Between Invisibility and Suburbia, Small Walker Press
2020 - El Casting, Studio Cartagena, Self Published
2019 - We Love Our Employees, Gato Negro
2019 - Carpoolers 3rd edition, Self Published
2019 - Los Sumergidos, Self Published
2018 - Enrique, a Presidential Guide to Selfies, Chaco/Gato Negro
2017 - Santa Barbara Shame on US, Skinnerboox
2017 - A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, The Velvet Cell
2017 - A Small Make Believe Neighborhood, VSW Press
2016 - Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US, Skinnerboox
2016 - Rivers of Power, Newwer
2015 - Carpoolers 2nd Edition, Self Published
2015 - Before the War 2nd Edition, Self Published
2015 - Headshots, Self Published
2015 - Before the War 1st Edition, Self Published
2014 - Carpoolers 1st Edition, Self Published
2011 - Suburbia Mexicana, Daylight/Photolucida
2006 - Identidad Nuevo León, FENL/UDEM
2015 - Espacios Habitables, Self Published
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 - George Eastman Museum, Photo Estructura / Photo Structure, Rochester NY, USA,
2020 - Salón ACME Fair, We are things, Mexico City
