Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist, working across moving image, photography and installation. With a background in anthropology, Echeverría challenges conventional narratives around identity and home, offering unique perspectives into a range of cultural contexts through the subjects represented.

In this talk, Echeverría will give background behind her latest projects and the wider political and social issues that impact her work.

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Biography

Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist and visual anthropologist working in multiple media. She holds a Masters degree in Social Anthropology and Development from the University of Edinburgh (2004). After working on HIV prevention projects in East Africa, she pursued a post graduate degree in Photography from the International Center for Photography in New York (2008). Her research based work brings a contemporary and critical approach to questions of visual representation.

Her work has been widely exhibited at international venues, including solo exhibitions at Preus Museum, Norway’s National Museum of Photography, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles and The California Museum of Photography at UCR. Her work is part of several public and institutional collections including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, BMW Art & Culture and The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Recent commissions include the Swiss Foundation of Photography and BBC Four, for whom she presented a three part series: The Art That Made Mexico.

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