Alejandro Almanza Pereda

Alejandro Almanza Pereda makes sculpture, installation, and photography which focuses on the relationship between precarity and solidity. His attention to the life forces in objects and material allows for allegorical understandings of the tentative balances perceived as resolute in contemporary social orders. In his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Almanza Pereda focuses on the invisible power and influence imposed by architecture on every day life. Pushing against modernist artists and architects' utopic ideals and outsized egos, he champions a life outside of architecture and social design.

Alejandro Almanza Pereda was born in 1977 in Mexico City. He recieved an MFA from Hunter College, New York, and has presented solo exhibitions at insitutions including the San Francisco Art Institute; Stanley Rubin Center, El Paso; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio; and Art in General, New York. He lives and works between New York, Mexico City, and Guadalajara.

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