Alejandra Figueroa

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Biography

Alejandra Figueroa was born and raised in Mexico. Passionate about photography, she decided to make it her life and moved to Paris in 1992. Casting a new perspective on sculpture is her favourite theme, but she has also produced work featuring stained glass, paintings, textures and architecture. The turning point in her career was her first exhibition at the Grand Louvre, Paris, in 1997. Further exhibitions followed, including one at the Musée d’Orsay in 1998, commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, and another at the Vatican in 2001, where she showed a book of photographs featuring a sculptures from St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. She represented Mexico at Expo 2000 in Hannover, in the VIP hall, and in the same year she photographed the collection of the Museo Nacional del Virreinato in Tepozotlán, Mexico, and then took part in the prestigious exhibition « D’après l’Antique » at the Musée du Louvre.

Exhibitions

• 1994 Regards de Pierre, Galerie Marie Therese Cochin, Paris.
• 1995 La Inmovilidad de la Certeza, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
• 1997 Le Grand Louvre, Musee du Louvre, Paris
• 1997 Corps, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris
• 1997 Sentiments Paralelles, au Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, during the official visit of Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, together with the French ******President Jacques Chirac.
• 1998 Photographier la Sculpture, Musee d ‘Orsay. By the order of the French Ministry of Culture.
• 2000 Fascinación, Sala Hiperactiva, National Museum of Mexico City
• 2001 Exposición Virreinal, Colección de Escultura del Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepozotlan, Mexico
• 2002 Participant in the Photo Festival in Singapore and in Bangkok supported by the L’ AFFA and La Ville de Paris
• 2002 “Peau d’ Ange”, Colonial expression, Eglise Saint Eustache, Mois de la Photo, Paris
• 2003 Fragile Meduse, Chateau de Pierrefonds, commissioned by MONUM Center of National Monuments of France
• 2004 Fragmentos, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
• 2007 Couleurs d’Eclats, Musee de Cluny, Musee National du Moyen Age, Paris
• 2008 Usages de L’Ombre et de L’Arc en Ciel, Maison de L’ Amerique Latine, Paris
• 2011 Corpus, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, Mexico City
• 1998 2nd. Place in the “Concour Villa Medicis”, Rome
• 1999 Commissioned by the Vatican to photograph the scultures of the “Basilica de San Pietro”, Rome
• 1999 1st. Place at the Contest of Young Artists “La Maison Europeenne de la Photographie”
• 2002 Commissioned by the “L’Association Francaise d’Action Artistique (L’AFAA)” and the “Ville de Paris” to photograph Museums and Architecture of China
• 2004 Commissioned by the Board of Xalapa, TAMSA and Mrs. Paola Cussi to photograph the Colección of Xalapa’s Museum of Antropology
• 2005 Prismes-Glass Windows, Musee Site d’Archeologie Bavay, France.
• 2006 L’Art du Fragment, Galerie 127, Marrakesh, Marroco.
• 2007 Couleurs d’Eclats, Musee de Cluny, Paris.
• 2008 Mois de la Photo, Usages de l’Ombre et de l’Arc en Ciel, Maison D’Amerique Latine, Paris France.
• 2009 Commissioned by the Victoria Albert Museum of London to photograph the new Medieval Halls.
• 2012 Corpus, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, Mexico. *2016 Museum Chasa Jaura, Mustair, Suisse. *2016 Galerie Churs, Suisse. *2017 The Gallery Heuberg24, Photo Basel, Basel, Suisse.

Collective Exhibitions

• 1998 Paris Photo – Fair, Carroussel du Louvre
• 1999 Paris Photo – Fair, Carroussel du Louvre
• 2000 Paris Photo – Fair, Carroussel du Louve
• 2000 International Art Forum Hannover. Pavilion VIP Mexico
• 2000 Participation in the Exhibition “D’Apres L’Antique”, Musee du Louvre,Paris
• 2003 Paris Photo – Fair, Carroussel du Louvre

Publicatons

• • • CORPUS Steidl, Robert Laffont, Thames & Hudson, Rizzoli New York, 2003
    • FRAGMENTOS Museo de Antropologia Xalapa, Steidl 2003
    • EXPRESION VIRREINAL Museo Nacional del Virreinato, 2002

Collections

Musee du Louvre,Paris

• Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
• Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
• Bibloteque National de France, Paris
• Musee Rodin, Paris
• Instituto de Conservación Getty, Los Ángeles
• St Peters Basílica, Roma