About
Alejandro "Luperca" Morales
Alejandro “Luperca” Morales (Ciudad Juárez, 1990) is an artist and curator. He holds a BA in Art
Theory and Criticism from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Arizona State University. He participated in the Program for Emerging Leaders in
Museums and Cultural Management (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2020) and the Curatorial
Intensive of Independent Curators International (Mexico City, 2018).
In 2012, he worked in exhibition research, collections, and documentation at the Museo de la
Solidaridad Salvador Allende and the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda in Santiago de Chile.
He is the founder of Proyectos Impala (2016–2018), an independent exhibition space and
mobile library in Ciudad Juárez. He was the Curator at the Universidad de Monterrey (2018–2022)
and later Coordinator of Dialogues, Exhibitions, and Volunteering at the Festival Internacional
Santa Lucía (Nuevo León, 2023–2024).
His curatorial projects include Index: Archiving the Edges of Violence (Rubin Center, 2014);
Horror pleni (EAC, Uruguay, 2015); III Salón ACME (Mexico City, 2015); Fallas de Origen
(MACJ, 2016); Detritos: Vestigios de la Arena by Miriam Salado (MUSAS, 2016); and Francis
Alÿs: Ciudad Juárez Projects (ASU Art Museum, 2017).
As an artist, his recent exhibitions include Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2021); the Whitney Biennial 2022 Quiet as It’s Kept (New
York, 2022); Getxophoto (Basque Country, 2022); Les Rencontres de la photographie (Arles,
2023); Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin, 2023); Fundación Casa de México en
España (Madrid, 2023); and the XX Bienal del Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, 2023). He was
an Artist-in-Residence at the Whitney Museum’s Youth Insights program (2022).
He has presented lectures and participated in public programs, including SITAC, Laboratorio
Arte Alameda, Centro de la Imagen, UNAM and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros.
Alejandro “Luperca” Morales (Ciudad Juárez, 1990) is an artist and curator. He holds a BA in Art
Theory and Criticism from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Arizona State University. He participated in the Program for Emerging Leaders in
Museums and Cultural Management (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2020) and the Curatorial
Intensive of Independent Curators International (Mexico City, 2018).
In 2012, he worked in exhibition research, collections, and documentation at the Museo de la
Solidaridad Salvador Allende and the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda in Santiago de Chile.
He is the founder of Proyectos Impala (2016–2018), an independent exhibition space and
mobile library in Ciudad Juárez. He was the Curator at the Universidad de Monterrey (2018–2022)
and later Coordinator of Dialogues, Exhibitions, and Volunteering at the Festival Internacional
Santa Lucía (Nuevo León, 2023–2024).
His curatorial projects include Index: Archiving the Edges of Violence (Rubin Center, 2014);
Horror pleni (EAC, Uruguay, 2015); III Salón ACME (Mexico City, 2015); Fallas de Origen
(MACJ, 2016); Detritos: Vestigios de la Arena by Miriam Salado (MUSAS, 2016); and Francis
Alÿs: Ciudad Juárez Projects (ASU Art Museum, 2017).
As an artist, his recent exhibitions include Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2021); the Whitney Biennial 2022 Quiet as It’s Kept (New
York, 2022); Getxophoto (Basque Country, 2022); Les Rencontres de la photographie (Arles,
2023); Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin, 2023); Fundación Casa de México en
España (Madrid, 2023); and the XX Bienal del Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, 2023). He was
an Artist-in-Residence at the Whitney Museum’s Youth Insights program (2022).
He has presented lectures and participated in public programs, including SITAC, Laboratorio
Arte Alameda, Centro de la Imagen, UNAM and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros.
Selected Exhibition History
Traces of Existence, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, USA, April 6 – June 9, 2024.
Aperture - Paris Photo Book Award. Shortlisted. First photobook, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
No más mundos por conquistar. XX Bienal del Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de México, México.
Night of the Year, Arles, Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France.
Archival Assembly #2, Accidental Archivism. Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past, Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art E.V, Berlin, Germany.
Todos me amarán, Arte de México Hoy. Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid, España.
Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France, July 4 - September 25, 2022.
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as it’s kept. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, April 6 - September 5, 2022.
Archivo Juárez, Getxophoto,Festival Internacional de Imagen. Getxo, Basque Country, June 2 - 26, 2022.
Revisión 2022.Fotógrafos de Nuevo León. Fototeca del Centro de las Artes, CONARTE, NL, September 9 - November, 2022.
Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, November 6 2021 - November 6, 2022.
Perspectivas latinoamericanas. La imagen de la rebelión. Festival Panoramic, La Tèrmica de Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts, Granollers, Spain, September 27–30, 2018
Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands. Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, September 11–November 16, 2018
Limítrofe. Twentieth International Biennial of Art of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bienal Internacional de Artes Visuales de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, March 1–July 29, 2016
Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera. Ethnographic Terminalia 2014, Hierarchy, Washington, DC, December 3–7, 2014
Dialogues avec Goya: Les Désastres de la Guerre. A-Part Festival International D’art Contemporain, Château des Alpilles, Alpilles, France, July 4–August 31, 2014
Selected Bibliography
Benetton, Luciano, ed. Mexico: The Future is Unwritten—Contemporary Artists from Mexico.Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2015.
Vilela, Bruno, and Guilherme Cunha. Espaços Compartilhados da Imagem: Caderno de Reflexões Críticas sobre a Fotografia / Shared Spaces of the Image: Notebook of Critical Reflections on Photography. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Circuito, 2015.
Polgovsky Ezcurra, Mara. Reality Machines: An Art Exhibition on Post-Truth. Mexico and Cambridge, UK: Tecolotl Press, 2018.
Morales, Alejandro Luperca. “Portfolio Alejandro Luperca Morales.” BOMB Magazine no. 145 (Fall 2018): 97–101. New York: BOMB.
Morales, Alejandro ‘Luperca.’ P.M. Madrid and Mexico City: CHACO and Gato Negro Ediciones, 2018.
Bilbao, Tatiana, Nile Greenberg, and Ayesha S. Ghosh, eds. Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region. New Haven and Zürich: Yale School of Architecture and Lars Müller Publishers, 2020.
Morales, Alejandro Luperca. “Ultra-violence et post-photographie.” Fisheye Magazine no. 69 (Soupçon). Paris: Fisheye, 2025. Text by Milena III.
Morales, Alejandro Luperca. Obra ilustrada en Revista de la Universidad de México, núm. 919: Migraciones, abril de 2025.
︎ delirium.tembloroso@gmail.com
Traces of Existence, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, USA, April 6 – June 9, 2024.
Aperture - Paris Photo Book Award. Shortlisted. First photobook, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
No más mundos por conquistar. XX Bienal del Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de México, México.
Night of the Year, Arles, Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France.
Archival Assembly #2, Accidental Archivism. Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past, Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art E.V, Berlin, Germany.
Todos me amarán, Arte de México Hoy. Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid, España.
Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France, July 4 - September 25, 2022.
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as it’s kept. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, April 6 - September 5, 2022.
Archivo Juárez, Getxophoto,Festival Internacional de Imagen. Getxo, Basque Country, June 2 - 26, 2022.
Revisión 2022.Fotógrafos de Nuevo León. Fototeca del Centro de las Artes, CONARTE, NL, September 9 - November, 2022.
Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, November 6 2021 - November 6, 2022.
Perspectivas latinoamericanas. La imagen de la rebelión. Festival Panoramic, La Tèrmica de Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts, Granollers, Spain, September 27–30, 2018
Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands. Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, September 11–November 16, 2018
Limítrofe. Twentieth International Biennial of Art of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bienal Internacional de Artes Visuales de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, March 1–July 29, 2016
Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera. Ethnographic Terminalia 2014, Hierarchy, Washington, DC, December 3–7, 2014
Dialogues avec Goya: Les Désastres de la Guerre. A-Part Festival International D’art Contemporain, Château des Alpilles, Alpilles, France, July 4–August 31, 2014
Selected Bibliography
Benetton, Luciano, ed. Mexico: The Future is Unwritten—Contemporary Artists from Mexico.Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2015.
Vilela, Bruno, and Guilherme Cunha. Espaços Compartilhados da Imagem: Caderno de Reflexões Críticas sobre a Fotografia / Shared Spaces of the Image: Notebook of Critical Reflections on Photography. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Circuito, 2015.
Polgovsky Ezcurra, Mara. Reality Machines: An Art Exhibition on Post-Truth. Mexico and Cambridge, UK: Tecolotl Press, 2018.
Morales, Alejandro Luperca. “Portfolio Alejandro Luperca Morales.” BOMB Magazine no. 145 (Fall 2018): 97–101. New York: BOMB.
Morales, Alejandro ‘Luperca.’ P.M. Madrid and Mexico City: CHACO and Gato Negro Ediciones, 2018.
Bilbao, Tatiana, Nile Greenberg, and Ayesha S. Ghosh, eds. Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region. New Haven and Zürich: Yale School of Architecture and Lars Müller Publishers, 2020.
Morales, Alejandro Luperca. “Ultra-violence et post-photographie.” Fisheye Magazine no. 69 (Soupçon). Paris: Fisheye, 2025. Text by Milena III.
Morales, Alejandro Luperca. Obra ilustrada en Revista de la Universidad de México, núm. 919: Migraciones, abril de 2025.
︎ delirium.tembloroso@gmail.com