Alejandro Cartagena

*1977 / Mexico / Dominican Republic

Works

Contacts for the work of Alejandro Cartagena

Alejandro Cartagena

Monterrey
www.alejandrocartagena.com

Solo exhibitions

Hipervínculos: Alejandro Cartagena 2005-2026

Patricia Conde Galeria, México (MX)
3 Sep 2026 – 16 Jan 2027
Carpoolers

FUHRWERKSWAAGE, Köln (DE)
2 Jul 2026 – 31 Aug 2026
Ground Rules

Fundacion MAPFRE , Madrid (ES)
6 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
Ground Rules

First Retrospective Show

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
22 Nov 2025 – 19 Apr 2026
In Between Spaces – Entre Espacios

Catharine Clark, San Francisco (US)
31 May 2025 – 19 Jul 2025
Photo Structure / Foto Estructura

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk (US)
4 Sep 2020 – 24 Jan 2021
Photo Structure / Foto Estructura

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
31 Jan 2020 – 28 Jun 2020
Estructuras

Patricia Conde Galeria, México (MX)
5 Sep 2019 – 28 Oct 2019
Presence

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
12 Jan 2019 – 9 Mar 2019
Accumulations

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (CA)
29 Mar 2018 – 21 Apr 2018
Car Poolers

Etherton Gallery, Tucson (US)
15 Nov 2016 – 7 Jan 2017
CARPOOLERS

Photo-Eye Project Space, Santa Fe (US)
7 Nov 2014 – 10 Jan 2015
Bliss

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
25 Oct 2014 – 20 Dec 2014
Small Guide to Homeownership

Photography by Alejandro Cartagena of Mexico

Art Museum of the Americas, Washington (US)
24 Apr 2014 – 5 Oct 2014
Car Poolers

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
23 Feb 2013 – 6 Apr 2013
Suburbia Mexicana

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland (US)
3 Jun 2010 – 27 Jun 2010

Group

22 1/2

Patricia Conde Galeria, México (MX)
6 Jun 2026 – 22 Aug 2026

with Yolanda Andrade, Cannon Bernáldez, Sylvana Burns, Laura Cohen, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, Paola Davila, Alexandra German, Graciela Iturbide, Patricia Lagarde, Sonia Madrigal, Yael Martinez, Ilán Rabchinskey …
Civilization - Our Life in Focus

Unser Leben im Fokus

Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (CH)
13 Mar 2026 – 19 Jul 2026

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Priscilla Briggs, Edward Burtynsky, Philippe Chancel, Jo Choon-man …
Civilization: The Way We Live Now

Civilization: Wie wir heute leben

Kunsthalle München, München (DE)
11 Apr 2025 – 24 Aug 2025

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Michele Borzoni, Priscilla Briggs …
Traces of Existence

Griffin Museum Photography, Boston (US)
6 Apr 2024 – 9 Jun 2024

with Muriel Hasbun, Alejandro Luperca Morales
New Works – Art Collection Deutsche Börse

Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
13 Oct 2023 – 21 Jan 2024

with Mohamed Bourouissa, Larry Clark, Daniel Castro Garcia, Anton Kusters, Susan Meiselas, Philip Montgomery, Anastasia Samoylova, Mikhael Subotzky, Patrick Waterhouse
Highlights from the Photography Collection

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (US)
22 Oct 2022 – 17 Sep 2023

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Alice Austen, Richard Avedon, Ilse Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lynne Cohen, David Darby, Jess T. Dugan, William Eggleston, Robbert Flick, Lee Friedlander, William Klein …
CIVILIZATION

The Way We Live Now

Saatchi Gallery, London (GB)
2 Jun 2023 – 17 Sep 2023

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Lisa Barnard, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond …
Collecting the Future

Photography and Generative Art on the Blockchain

Assembly, Houston (US)
26 May 2023 – 22 Jul 2023

with Daniel Gordon, Gregory Eddi Jones, Klea McKenna, Rafael Rozendaal, Alec Soth, Barry Stone, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Penelope Umbrico
De luz salvaje y espléndida

Patricia Conde Galeria, México (MX)
22 Mar 2023 – 12 Apr 2023

with Laura Cohen, Paola Davila, Flor Garduno, Christina Kahlo, Margot Kalach, Michael Kenna, Patricia Lagarde, Yael Martinez, Jose Antonio Martinez, Erwin Olaf
Civilization

The Way We Live Now / Vivere Sopravvivere Buon Vivere

Musei San Domenico, Forlì (IT)
17 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Ludovica Bastianini, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Nicola Bertasi …
Como es arriba, es abajo

Patricia Conde Galeria, México (MX)
8 Feb 2022 – 11 Mar 2022

with Renate Aller, Yolanda Andrade, Juan Carlos Coppel, Hector Garcia, Flor Garduno, Kati Horna, Graciela Iturbide, Carlos Jurado, Patricia Lagarde, Erwin Olaf, Oswaldo Ruiz
Est quod visum placet

Patricia Conde Galeria, México (MX)
4 Nov 2021 – 29 Jan 2022

with Renate Aller, Juan Carlos Coppel, Javier Hinojosa, Michael Kenna, Patricia Lagarde, Erwin Olaf, Oswaldo Ruiz
PHOTOBOOK AWARDS

PARIS PHOTO - APERTURE FOUNDATION

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
11 Nov 2021 – 14 Nov 2021

with Farah Al Qasimi, Indu Antony, Melba Arellano, Jessica Backhaus, Bieke Depoorter, Isaac Diggs, Deanna Dikeman, Muhammad Fadli, Nancy Floyd, Jana Hartmann, Edward Hillel, Mao Ishikawa …
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
25 Jun 2021 – 26 Sep 2021

with Poulomi Basu, CAO Fei, Zineb Sedira
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021

Deutsche Börse, Eschborn (DE)
5 Jun 2021 – 19 Sep 2021

with Poulomi Basu, CAO Fei, Zineb Sedira
Gathering Clouds

Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
10 Jul 2020 – 3 Jan 2021

with Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Chiara, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Peter Henry Emerson, Sharon Harper, Gustave Le Gray, Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Sean McFarland, Abelardo Morell, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Trevor Paglen, Henry Peach Robinson …
Face To Face

A New Exhibition of Social Documentary and Portrait Photography

King’s Cross Tunnel , London (GB)
7 Oct 2020 – 1 Nov 2020

with Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Medina Dugger, Mahtab Hussain, Dhruv Malhotra, Sabelo Mlangeni, George Osodi, Kyle Weeks
Civilisation, Photography, Now

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (NZ)
16 Jun 2020 – 18 Oct 2020

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Michele Borzoni, Priscilla Briggs …
Civilization: The Way We Live Now

NGV National Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
13 Sep 2019 – 2 Feb 2020

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Michele Borzoni, Priscilla Briggs …
The Vision Board

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
29 Jun 2019 – 4 Aug 2019

with Kevin Cooley, Jen Denike, Pearl C. Hsiung, Nina Katchadourian, Jordie Oetken, Amy Park, Guy Richards Smit, Erika Rothenberg, Katie Shapiro, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Marnie Weber, Christopher Williams
Civilization: The Way We Live Now

Ullens Center Contemporary Art, Beijing (CN)
9 Mar 2019 – 19 May 2019

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Michele Borzoni, Priscilla Briggs …
Civilization: The Way We Live Now

National Museum of Art, Gwacheon (KR)
18 Oct 2018 – 17 Feb 2019

with Max Aguilera Hellwig, Florian Boehm, Evan Baden, Murray Ballard, Olivo Barbieri, Mandy Barker, Olaf Otto Becker, Valerie Belin, Daniel Berehulak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Michele Borzoni, Priscilla Briggs …
For Freedoms: Margin and Center

Houston Center Photography, Houston (US)
9 Mar 2018 – 29 Apr 2018

with Wendy Ewald, Gerard H. Gaskin, Omar Imam, Emily Jacir, Richard Misrach, Carrie Mae Weems
In Your Dreams

Australian Centre Photo, Sydney (AU)
6 Jan 2018 – 7 Apr 2018

with Samsul Alam Helal, SIM Chi Yin, Samuel Gratacap, Tanya Habjouqa, Taloi Havini, Maria Kourkouta, Johnny Miller, George Osodi, Raphaela Rosella, Andres Serrano, Liang ZHAO
Frontera: Views of the U.S.-Mexico Border

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
3 Nov 2017 – 2 Apr 2018

with Geoffrey James, Pablo Lopez Luz, Adrien Missika, Mark Ruwedel
Tell Me a Story

Contemporary Mexican Photography

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
16 Sep 2017 – 11 Nov 2017

with Juan Carlos Coppel, Aglae Cortes, Jose Luis Cuevas, Fernando Gallegos, Karla Leyva, Rodrigo Ramos, Mariela Sancari
Autophoto

dedicated to photography’s relationship to the automobile

Fondation Cartier, Paris (FR)
20 Apr 2017 – 24 Sep 2017

with Robert Adams, Eve Arnold, Bernard Asset, Eric Aupol, Theo Baart, Valerie Belin, Martin Bogren, Nicolas Bouvier, David Bradford, Brassai, Alain Bublex, Edward Burtynsky …
Photobook Phenomenon

Centre de Cultura Cont., Barcelona (ES)
17 Mar 2017 – 27 Aug 2017

with Laia Abril, Jana Romanova, Viviane Sassen, Thomas Sauvin, Oliver Sieber, Katja Stuke
SALON 44

Gallery 44's annual fundraising exhibition

Gallery 44 Photography, Toronto (CA)
10 Mar 2017 – 25 Mar 2017

with Sara Angelucci, Fiona Annis, Lise Beaudry, Kotama Bouabane, Marco Buonocore, Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge, Christopher Wahl
LA VILLE DES MONTAGNES

Cinq regards photographiques sur Monterrey

Institut du Mexique, Paris (FR)
14 Oct 2016 – 7 Jan 2017

with Eunice Adorno, Adela Goldbard, Fernando Montiel Klint, Pablo Lopez Luz
25th Anniversary Show

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
5 Nov 2016 – 23 Dec 2016

with Diane Arbus, Marsha Burns, Harry Callahan, Kevin Cooley, Mitch Dobrowner, Walker Evans, Steve Fitch, J. Bennett Fitts, David Fokos, Andy Freeberg, Lee Friedlander, Katy Grannan …
Photoville 2016

Photoville, Brooklyn (US)
21 Sep 2016 – 25 Sep 2016

with Mustafah Abdulaziz, Mahmoud Abou Zeid (Shawkan), Jesse Burke, Bill Cunningham, Marcus Eriksson, Brian Finke, Robin Hammond, Ron Haviv, Richard Heeps, An-Sofie Kesteleyn, Wayne Lawrence, Andrew Lichtenstein …
Looking In, Looking Out

Latin American Photography

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
18 Oct 2015 – 20 Mar 2016

with Mario Algaze, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Alberto Diaz Korda (Guttierrez), Eniac Martinez, Rodrigo Moya
LIANZHOU FOTO FESTIVAL 2015

Expanded Geographies by Christopher Phillips

Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou (CN)
21 Nov 2015 – 10 Dec 2015

with Michael Ackerman, Jacob Aue Sobol, Lisa Barnard, Li Bigang, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), Walter Bosshard, Antoine Bruy, Joseph Desler Costa, Huang Dongli, Dru Donovan, Charles Freger, ZHANG Haier …
Miradas: Contemporary Mexican Photographers

Bronx Documentary Center, New York (US)
15 Nov 2014 – 12 Jan 2015

with Ruth Prieto Arenas, Chuy Benítez, Fernando Brito, Mauricio Palos
Photography in Mexico

from the Collection of SFMOMA

Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield (US)
11 Sep 2014 – 4 Jan 2015

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Carrillo, Lourdes Grobet, Graciela Iturbide, Elsa Medina, Tina Modotti, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Edward Weston, Mariana Yampolsky
INVISIBLE MIGRATIONS

Alice Austen House Museum, New York (US)
2 Mar 2014 – 31 Aug 2014

with Alice Austen, Jim Goldberg, Katharina Hesse, Seba Kurtis, Gabriele Stabile, Kadir van Lohuizen
PHOTOQUAI 2013

the World Photography Biennale

Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (FR)
17 Sep 2013 – 17 Nov 2013

with Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Filipe Branquinho, Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman, Rasel Chowdhury, Pedro David , Adriana DuQue, Dima Gavrysh, Tanya Habjouqa, Yaakov Israel, Olya Ivanova, Hein-Kuhn Oh …
After Álvarez Bravo

Fotografía mexicana ahorita

Museo de América, Madrid (ES)
30 May 2013 – 29 Sep 2013

with Eunice Adorno, Fernando Brito, Alfredo de Stefano, Alex Dorfsman, Daniela Edburg, Maya Goded, Fernando Montiel
Geográfica

Fototropía, Guatemala City (GT)
31 May 2013 – 30 Jun 2013

with Mary Ellen Bartley, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Mauren Brodbeck, Brad Carlile, Lola Guerrera, Darren Harvey-Regan, Michael Kenna, Christine Shank, Geoffrey H. Short
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA 2012

SAFOTO, San Antonio (US)
30 Aug 2012 – 7 Oct 2012

with ALEX + FELIX, Susan Burnstine, Adad Hannah, Christian Lichtenberg, Lori Nix, Julian Salinas, Chao-Liang Shen, Ursula Sprecher, David Taylor
Photography in Mexico

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
10 Mar 2012 – 8 Jul 2012

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Katya Brailovsky, Manuel Carillo, Pia Elizondo, Hector Garcia, Dave Gatley, Oscar Fernando Gomez, Lourdes Grobet, Graciela Iturbide, Geoffrey James, Mark Klett …
18th Noordlicht Photofestival 2011: METROPOLIS

Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
11 Sep 2011 – 9 Oct 2011

with Abir Abdullah, Evan Abramson, Martin Adolfsson, Manal Al Dowayan, Anas Al-Shaikh, Mehraneh Atashi, Giorgio Barrera, Matteo Bastianelli, Nina Berman, Peter Bialobrzeski, Jodi Bieber, Julio Bittencourt …

Events

Paris Photo 2026 - Solo

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
12 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026

with Merry Alpern, Poklong Anading, Miguel Angel Rojas, Hicham Benohoud, Elina Brotherus, Julie Cockburn, Jack Davison, Tamas Dezso, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Edouard Taufenbach & Bastien Pourtout, Ahmet Ertug, Aneta Grzeszykowska …
PHotoEspaña 2026

PHotoEspaña, Madrid (ES)
13 May 2026 – 13 Sep 2026

with Laia Abril, Greta Alfaro, Jalon Angel, Bego Anton, Javier Arboledas, Richard Avedon, Isabel Azkarate, Jose Manuel Ballester, Lurdes R. Basoli, Sonia Celma, Talia Chetrit, Colita …
SHOW LA

A new photography fair

SHOW LA, Los Angeles (US)
26 Feb 2026 – 1 Mar 2026

with Abbas, Robert Adams, David Alekhuogie, Joshua Amirthasingh, Ian Bates, Alice Boughton, Jo Ann Callis, Koral Carballo, Tracy Chandler, Bob Carlos Clarke, Jeffrey Conley, Camilla de Maffei …
FOG Design+Art 2026

FOG Design+Art, San Francisco (US)
21 Jan 2026 – 25 Jan 2026

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Matthew Brandt, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Katy Grannan, Todd Gray, Martine Gutierrez, Roni Horn, Peter Hujar, Agnieszka Kurant, An-My Le …
Foto/Industria HOME VII Biennial of photography on industry and work

10 exhibitions in 7 historical venues

FOTO INDUSTRIA, Bologna (IT)
7 Nov 2025 – 14 Dec 2025

with Matei Bejenaru, Forensic Architecture, Julia Gaisbacher, Vuyo Mabheka, Mikael Olsson, Kelly O’Brien, Moira Ricci, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Sisto Sisti, Jeff Wall
22nd DongGang International Photo Festival

DongGang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol (KR)
12 Jul 2024 – 29 Sep 2024

with Alexander Apostol, Marcelo Brodsky, Paz Errazuriz, Paolo Gasparini, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Roberto Huarcaya, Claudia Huidobro, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Caio Reisewitz, Sun Sunmin
Pinta BAphoto 2022

Buenos Aires Photo, Buenos Aires (AR)
21 Sep 2022 – 25 Sep 2022

with Fabiana Barreda, Raquel Bigio, Bandi Binder, Martin Bollati, Facundo de Zuviria, Sara Facio, George Friedman, Paolo Gasparini, Annemarie Heinrich, Alejandro Kuropatwa, Nacho Lopez, Suwon Lee …
Guernsey Photography Festival 2021

Acts of Love and Rebellion

Guernsey Photography Festival, Guernsey (GB)
23 Sep 2021 – 23 Oct 2021

with Zoé Aubry, Pierfrancesco Celada, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Medina Dugger, Tara Fallaux, Sylvain Granjon, Fergus Greer, Anais Lopez, Gideon Mendel, Sabelo Mlangeni, Hannah Modigh, George Osodi …
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021

shortlist

Deutsche Börse, Eschborn (DE)
5 Jun 2021 – 19 Sep 2021

with Poulomi Basu, CAO Fei, Zineb Sedira
AIPAD 2019 - Contemporary Photography

AIPAD, New York (US)
4 Apr 2019 – 7 Apr 2019

with Miles Aldridge, Daniel Beltra, Marina Black, Gohar Dashti, Delphine Diallo, Jess T. Dugan, Casper Faassen, Ivan Forde, William Furniss, Cig Harvey, Todd Hido, Bill Jacobson …
2018 Seoul Photo Festival

Brave New World

SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul (KR)
1 Nov 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Seung Woo Back, Kitra Cahana, Kenta Cobayashi, Cecile B. Evans, Naoya Hatakeyama, Go Itami, Rinko Kawauchi, Zhang Kechun, Taisuke Koyama, Yoshinori Mizutani, Sun-Min Park, Han Sungpil …
13th Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops

Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap (KH)
3 Dec 2017 – 12 Dec 2017

with Terje Abusdal, Hoda Afshar, Magda Biernat, Ricardo Cases, Antoine d'Agata, Cristina De Middel, Laura El-Tantawy, Neha Hirve, Sohrab Hura, Katrin Koenning, Aleksey Kondratyev, Sophal Neak …
MIA Photo Fair 2017

MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, Milano (IT)
9 Mar 2017 – 13 Mar 2017

with Ljubodrag Andric, Gabriele Basilico, Gianni Berengo Gardin, LIU Bolin, Davide Bramante, Piergiorgio Branzi, Edward Burtynsky, Silvia Camporesi, Clark & Pougnaud, Mario De Biasi, Mart Engelen, Giovanni Gastel …
photo basel 2016

photo basel, Basel (CH)
15 Jun 2016 – 19 Jun 2016

with Werner Bischof, Nathalie Boutte, Jerome Brezillon, Elina Brotherus, Thibault Brunet, Balthasar Burkhard, Rene Burri, Gilles Caron, f&d Cartier, Katharine Cooper, Nicolas Dhervillers, Martin Essl …
Bliss

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)