Laureana Toledo

Laureana Toledo (born 1970) is a Mexican conceptual artist.[1][2][3]

Laureana Toledo
Born1970
Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
NationalityMexican

Life and background

Toledo was born in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico in 1970,[4] and lives and works in Mexico City. Toledo is the daughter of Francisco Toledo.[3]

Career

She began as a photographer, and later incorporated drawing, painting, video, sound and sculpture into her work.[5] From January to March 2009, she was an artist in residence at Gasworks, a contemporary art organisation in South London, UK.[5] She has been on the artists council of and is a co-founder of SOMA, an educational art space in Mexico City which hosts international artists, curators, critics, and art historians in residential programs.[6][7]

According to a SOMA Summer artist-in-residence description,

Laureana is inspired by the imperceptible or transient moments of the everyday, speculating on how such phenomena can gain new forms of visual presentation. Her work often involves systematic and repetitive interventions into different media (texts, books, photographs, painitngs, etc.) to re-code their existing narratives.[7]

In 2019, Toledo exhibited an installation at Museo Jumex in Mexico City. She selected books, records and films from Mick Jones's, of The Clash, private collection.[8]

Exhibitions

References
  1. C.V, DEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S. A. de (13 April 2010). "La Jornada: Laureana Toledo disfraza banda-pieza de arte con rock para enganchar a un espectador imaginario". www.jornada.com.mx. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 December 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Francisco Toledo, artist and activist who injected life into Mexican traditions, dead at 79". Reuters. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  4. "SOMA MEXICO – Laureana Toledo". somamexico.org. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  5. "Residencies | Gasworks". www.gasworks.org.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  6. "Organigrama / Staff, Council & Board | SOMA". 27 September 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  7. "SOMA MEXICO – About". somamexico.org. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  8. "Laureana Toledo en Museo Jumex: libros, discos y películas del Rock & Roll Public Library". local.mx (in Spanish). 5 February 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  9. Jauregui, Gabriela (25 February 2019). "Flipping the Gaze: Exhibitions Around Mexico City Present the Body as Corporatized, Colonized, Tortured, Ungendered, Conspicuous". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 31 March 2020.


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