Alejandro García Contreras

Mexican artist born in 1982 in Tapachula, Chiapas, who now works in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He makes ceramic, concrete, sand and video works that mix popular culture, myth, occultism and religion. He completed a Summer 2024 residency at Pioneer Works, where he cast concrete pillars and ornamental sculptures on site. His first institutional solo show there, on view September to December 2024, dealt with memory, mortality and the objects people leave behind.