Mauricio Alejo

Mauricio Alejo (b. 1969, Mexico City) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the fragile intersection between reality and its image. Through photography, video, and installation, Alejo uses everyday objects to create quietly surreal compositions that challenge conventional perceptions of materiality, meaning, and narrative. Anchored in the factual world yet untethered from function or logic, his practice reveals the poetic and absurd potential of the ordinary.

Alejo holds a Master of Arts from New York University (2002) and lives and works between Mexico City and New York. His work has been widely exhibited, including at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco), La Habana Biennial, Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan (Puerto Rico), Centro de la Imagen and Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), among others. He has been an artist-in-residence at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and is a recipient of grants from FONCA (Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts) and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

His works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Daros Latinamerica Collection (Zurich), the Art Museum of the Americas (Washington D.C.), the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, and the Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection.

Alejo’s deceptively simple yet conceptually rich practice highlights the strange within the familiar, inviting viewers to reconsider the visual and symbolic potential of the mundane.