Alejandro Mejía is an artist from Mexico City working across sculpture, ceramics, installation, video, sound, and drawing.
He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” and is currently completing an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Notre Dame. He lives and works in South Bend, Indiana.
His practice develops from an interest in perception, memory, bodily experience, and the systems people use to measure, record, and interpret the world around them. His work often begins with actions such as observing, tracing, collecting, repeating, listening, or measuring, which are translated into objects, drawings, performances, recordings, and sound-producing or mechanical devices. Across these projects, the body functions both as a point of reference and as an instrument for producing gestures, proportions, rhythms, errors, and forms of knowledge.
His work has been presented in museums, cultural institutions, and galleries in Mexico and the United States, including Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez “El Nigromante” in San Miguel de Allende, Museo Iconográfico del Quijote in Guanajuato, Galería Libertad, Centro Nacional de las Artes, and the University of Notre Dame. His work is held in the Luciano Benetton Collection through the Imago Mundi project, among other private and public collections. He received an Honorable Mention at the I Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo BARCO 01 in León, Guanajuato, and has received support from the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good at the University of Notre Dame, as well as the Graduate School’s Best of Show Award.