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 an MFA candidate at Arizona State University. He participated in the Curatorial Intensive of Independent Curators International (Mexico City, 2018) and the Program for Emerging Leaders in Museums and Cultural Management (2020).
Selected exhibitions include the 80th Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles; Getxophoto, Basque Country; the Bienal de Fotografía at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester; Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
His photobook The Portrait of Your Absence received a Special Mention at the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award (2022) and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Award (2023). Paso del Norte was shortlisted for the Image Vevey Book Award 2025–26 and the PhMuseum Photobook Award (2025).
Morales founded Proyectos Impala (2016–2018), an independent exhibition space and mobile library in Ciudad Juárez. He was Curator at Universidad de Monterrey (2018–2022) and Coordinator of Dialogues, Exhibitions, and Volunteering at Festival Internacional Santa Lucía in Nuevo León (2023–2024). His curatorial projects include Index: Archiving the Edges of Violence (Rubin Center), Horror pleni (EAC, Uruguay), Fallas de Origen (Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez), Francis Alÿs: Ciudad Juárez Projects (ASU Art Museum), and the Border Biennial (2026)
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 an MFA candidate at Arizona State University. He participated in the Curatorial Intensive of Independent Curators International (Mexico City, 2018) and the Program for Emerging Leaders in Museums and Cultural Management (2020).
Selected exhibitions include the 80th Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles; Getxophoto, Basque Country; the Bienal de Fotografía at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester; Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
His photobook The Portrait of Your Absence received a Special Mention at the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award (2022) and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Award (2023). Paso del Norte was shortlisted for the Image Vevey Book Award 2025–26 and the PhMuseum Photobook Award (2025).
Morales founded Proyectos Impala (2016–2018), an independent exhibition space and mobile library in Ciudad Juárez. He was Curator at Universidad de Monterrey (2018–2022) and Coordinator of Dialogues, Exhibitions, and Volunteering at Festival Internacional Santa Lucía in Nuevo León (2023–2024). His curatorial projects include Index: Archiving the Edges of Violence (Rubin Center), Horror pleni (EAC, Uruguay), Fallas de Origen (Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez), Francis Alÿs: Ciudad Juárez Projects (ASU Art Museum), and the Border Biennial (2026)