BIOGRAPHY

Alejandro Mojica, a Mexican visual artist, began his painting journey in 1975 at the Sinaloa State University School of Arts.

Over the years, he refined his craft through painting workshops in Mexico City and Cuernavaca, Mexico. In 1980, he unveiled his artistic vision to the public with his solo exhibition debut at the Frida Kahlo Gallery in Sinaloa, marking the beginning of his professional trajectory.

Since then, Alejandro has maintained a prolific exhibition schedule, showcasing his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Notably, in 1987, he secured the top prize at the First Northwest Biennial, a testament to his artistic mastery. The following year, Alejandro relocated to Mexico City, where he received an invitation to showcase his art individually at La Casa del Lago del Bosque de Chapultepec. This pivotal exhibition not only facilitated his entry into the esteemed Praxis International Gallery and leading to further exhibitions across the Praxis gallery network but he was also invited to represent Mexico at the First Biennial of the Caribbean and Central America in 1992 and followed many individual exhibitions all over the world.

Besides his many solo and collective exhibitions he’s been part of many public mural projects in Canada, South Africa, and his work is featured at Culiacan’s International Airport and in 2007 was commissioned to create a public sculpture in Sinaloa.

He currently resided between Mexico, New York and Los Angeles.

MAIN SOLO EXHIBITS

2023 Algo a donde sea / something anywhere, Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
2020 Lo que la tarde trae / what the afternoon brings, Ángela Peralta Theater Gallery, and Baupres Gallery, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México
2016 Retratos imaginarios y Papeles rojos / Imaginary portraits and red papers, Carlos Olachea Gallery, La Paz, BC., México
2012 Retratos imaginarios / Imaginary Portraits, Banco Industrial de Venezuela Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela
2011 Despalazamientos imperceptibles / Imperceptible Displacements, Edgar Pozos Gallery, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
2010 Territories, Consulate of Mexico in Miami, Florida, USA.
2009 Territorios / Territories, Sinaloa Art Museum, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
2008 Recuento / Recount, Frida Kahlo Gallery, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
2007 Días / Days, Mazatlán Art Museum and Gallery of the Palace of Culture, Tijuana, BC., México
2007 Nau-Huuépula Sculpture, Desarrollo UrbanoTres Ríos, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
2004 El Camino del Jiteberi / The way of the Jiteberi, Casa Diego Rivera Museum, Guanajuato, Gto., ITSON Gallery, Cd. Obregón, Sonora, Galleries of Librería de Cristal and Praxis International Art, CDMX, México
2002 Diferencias Repetidas / Repeated Differences, CECUT, Tijuana, B.C., Galería Universidad de Mexicali, BC., Galería Libertad, Querétaro, México
1998 Calasoiti-Machi, Galería del Sol, Miami, Florida, USA.
1998 Axis Mundi, Slato Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 Trabajo reciente / Recent work, Galería del Sol, Miami, Florida, USA.

MAIN GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Noroeste Art Fair, Artefacto, Gallery, San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
2023 The Plastic Madness, Caribbean Naval Museum and Baupres Gallery, Cartagena, Colombia
2022 14th Annual Contemporary Art Exhibit, Museum of Northern History, Kirkland lake, Ontario, Canada
2021 Without Borders, Alhambra City Hall and Academy of Special Dreams, Alhambra, California, USA
2020 Trienal Andina Topa Amaro, the Independence of Peru, Exhibition Hall, Cusco, Perú
2017 Artistas Visuales de Sinaloa en el Mundo / Visual artists from Sinaloa in the World, Casa de México-Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
2016 Nombrar la soga / Name the rope, GAALS, ISIC, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México
2014 Trenza-Trazo / Braid-Stroke, National Gallery of Taiwan

My work consists of staining, erasing and discovering shapes and masks privileging color, my aesthetic vocabulary contains recurring elements that I have used for several years, creating a construction in the composition that seeks to be an organic geometry.

I am obsessed with shadows and following routes that allow me to travel new paths, I think that’s what’s about, developing new possibilities within my own work. I still have the same obsessions such as the importance to color, compositions based on my characters, floating figures and some other resources. I think I have found elements that I didn’t see before such as the administration of space, the atmosphere between objects, the freedom in the line and the search for a cleaner color through glazes, stains and embracing serendipitous accidents in my work.

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