Alejandro Cartagena arrived in Mexico at the age of 13, where he developed his artistic career. He studied a master’s degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL). His photographic work analyzes the urban landscape through the different relationships that develop in it while exposing social structures. He has received multiple awards and grants, including the Critical Mass Book Award from Photolucida and Sistema Nacional de Creadores from FONCA. He was recognized by the New York magazine Photo District News as one of the top 30 emerging photographers, and the magazine FOAM from Amsterdam featured his works. His work has been part of more than 50 individual and group shows in Canada, China, the United States, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the Dominican Republic, and is part of the collections of SFMOMA, the Getty Museum, The J.P. Morgan Collection, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and MFAH, among others.
Colección FEMSA has an image bank of the works that comprise it—a resource intended for researchers, publishers, and art institutions. The Collection is open to lending requests for shows in Mexico and other countries.
If you need a high-resolution image or would like to request a work on-loan, please send an email to coleccionfemsa@difusion.femsa.com