Alejandro García Contreras’s creative work is driven by a dialogue between material and technical processes. His experiments are filled with, and at times formed from, symbolic iconography including flaming arrows, swords, serpents, bones, and crystals. . García Contreras’s practice of combining of elements results in suggestive forms that explore the divine, the evil, the magical, the erotic and the feminine, as well as various taboo dimensions of the viewer’s own unconscious, promoting the discovery of a new sense of divinity through contemporary idols.
Through his artistic projects, García Contreras explores topics and themes inspired by contemporary popular culture, folklore, myth, occultism and religion. The artist was raised in Chiapas, Mexico, a region known for its proximity to nature and deep-rooted mystical, indigenous, and esoteric traditions. At a young age, he experimented with magic and the occult. His work explores the unconscious, projecting codes and elements that inhabit it, recalling that art once functioned as the crafting of magical objects representing life and death. The exhibition proposes a world shaped by slow, transformative embrace of difference.
Alejandro García Contreras (b. 1982, Tapachula, Chiapas, México) studied Visual Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ENPEG/La Esmeralda. In 2016, he was invited to the Casa Wabi residency program. The same year, he launched the art residency Dedazo in Carrillo Puerto, Chiapas. In the last years, he exhibited in various countries all around the world and in U.S. based galleries such as Swivel Gallery, Friedman Benda and David Castillo Gallery. In Mexico, he has presented his work in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Ex Colegio de San Ildefonso, the Ex Teresa Museum, the National Center for the Arts, the Chopo University Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, among others. He also exhibited in galleries such as Proyectos Monclova, Nasal, House of Gaga, Travesia Cuatro, Armada Galería, Guadalajara 9021 etc. In 2024 he presented his first institutional solo show in the US at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY. In 2025 , he presented Le monde comme un Labyrinthe, a solo exhibition of new work conceived by the artist to show alongside Boleslaw Biegas and Gustave Moreau, presented at the Polish Institute of Paris, France. García Contreras lives and works in Guadalajara, México.
