About

Alejandro "Luperca" Morales

Born in Ciudad Juárez in 1990, Morales graduated with a Bachelor's in Art Theory and Criticism from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez in 2013. He is currently an MFA student at Arizona State University.

His artistic contributions include participation in notable exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial 2022 Quiet as It's Kept (New York, 2022); Getxophoto (Basque Country, 2022); Panoramic Festival (Barcelona, 2018); Mexico // The Future is Unwritten (Foundation Benetton Collection, 2015); the XIX and XX Biennial of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia 2014 - 2016); V Festival A-part (France, 2014); the Belo Horizonte International Festival (Brazil, 2013); among others.

His book, "The Portrait of Your Absence," received a Special Mention at the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2022, was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2023 and shortlisted for Encontros da Imagen Photobook Awards 2024.

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, Mexico City, 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, Spain.

Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France, July 4 - September 25, 2022.

Whitney Biennal 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.

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