Alberto Ortega Trejo: One of the qualities of nocturnal animals is that they speak words of truth
@ Prairie
2055 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, August 17th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 5th
Prairie is pleased to present ‘One of the qualities of nocturnal animals is that they speak words of truth,’ a solo exhibition by Alberto Ortega Trejo. The exhibition opens Saturday August 17 with a reception from 5-8pm and runs through October 5, 2024.
Alberto Ortega Trejo is a Mexican artist, curator, and architectural researcher based in Chicago, USA, and Pachuca, Mexico. His work uses architectural history, writing, and video to address representations of indigeneity, the production of extreme environments, and contemporary political struggles in the Americas. He has been a fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and a grantee of the New Artists Society of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Jumex Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His work has been shown at DePaul Art Museum, BienalSur, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Uri-Eichen Gallery, SITE Galleries, SpaceP11 and Centro de Arte y Filosofia. He has been a guest speaker for institutions and organizations like MoMA’s Emilio Ambasz Institute x DocTalks, the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, Smart Museum of Art, Materia Abierta, UPenn, MAS Context and CENTRO.
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