Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC)
Tijuana, Baja California, MX
April 14 - 11:00 AM PST
Ingrid Hernández shares a conversation with 2022 & 2023 Northern Exposure Scholarship recipients. Along with a presentation of the artist’s work, there will be a dialogue about the process of receiving advice and feedback on a photographic project during a formal portfolio review event.
This program will be held in Spanish
Ingrid Hernández will moderate the artist panel
Featured artists include:
Mario Chávez
Alejandro Cossío
Mayra Huerta
Gabriela Suárez
Joel Trejo
About Ingrid Hernández - Moderator
Ingrid Hernández is a visual artist born in Tijuana, B.C. Member of the National System of Art Creators. Her practice crosses the worlds of production, curation, writing and the management. She is co-founder of Relaciones Inesperadas, a space for the development of practices contemporary arts in a pedagogical context, established in Tijuana.
Her work has been widely exhibited individually and collectively in Latin America, United States, Europe and Asia. She was curator of the Fotoseptembre Festival at the Image Center (CDMX, 2022). Has been teacher, researcher and workshop facilitator in educational institutions in various cities of Mexico, Bogota and New York. In the United States he has presented conferences and workshops, specifically at Armory Center for the Arts (2017); California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS, 2017); Blaffer Art Museum of the University of Houston (2014), California Institute of Arts (CalArts, 2006); and Otis College of Art and Design for the Public Practice master's program.
Panelist
About Mario Chávez
Mario Alberto Chávez is a Mexican photographer with a background in Computer Science. He later studied "New Documentary Photography" at the Barcelona School of Arts & Design. His photographic motivations revolve around personal interests and social issues.
About Alejandro Cossío
Alejandro Cossío earned his degree in Communication at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, where he studied photography. He worked as a photojournalist for 17 years for the weekly newspaper Zeta and his work has been published in newspapers and magazines.
About Mayra Huerta
Mayra is a research professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Baja California. Enter the National System of Researchers as a Candidate. Her work has been exhibited in: Japan, Poland, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela and Mexico with more than sixty collective exhibitions and seven individual exhibitions.
About Gabriela Suárez
Born in Mexico City, Gabriela studied a Bachelor's Degree in Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM. She was part of the 2019-2020 Photographic Production Seminar of the Image Center. Selected at the Monterrey National Biennial ARTEMERGENTE 2019, at the 11th and 12th Baja California Photography Biennial in 2018 and 2022. She was the director and founder of the Nueve Nueve Independent Cultural Center in Ensenada, B.C., a space dedicated to reflection on photography, artistic expressions and social sciences.
About Joel Trejo
Joel is originally from Torreón Coahuila, in 1993 he was displaced by violence to this city of Tijuana, he completed his university studies at the UABC in the Communication career, he was part of the Contemporary Photography Program in its 2016, 2017 and 2018 editions organized by Javier Ramirez Limón. His work focuses on themes such as memory, landscape, territory, violence and death.
Location and Event Info
This event takes place in the Sala de Lecturas del Centro Comunitario located at UABC campus Tijuana. Universidad 14418, UABC, Parque Internacional Industrial Tijuana, 22390 Tijuana, B.C., Mexico.
Access is free and open to the public beginning at 11:00 am on Friday April 14.