Alicia Montemayor

Born in Mexico City in 1965, Alicia Montemayor studied Art at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Etching "La Esmeralda" and Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). Also has taken Workshops with Roger von Gunten, Rafael Zepeda and Juan José Beltrán.
In 1996 won an Honourable Mention form Vermont. MEX-AM Cultural Foundation for a two month Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson Vermont. Later in 1999 the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation granted her an Scholarship Category C for Postgraduate Student, that allowed her to spend three months in Greece.
Deeply interested in landscape, has developed a work that mingles it with calligraphy, arriving at informal abstraction. This has been the beginning of a more complex work on text and image, taking on account the philosophical research and the plastic as one and the same. Beginning as part of a academic research on Ancient Greek Aesthetics, the compelling form of the Ancient written formats of Greek Antiquity and their philological studies has been a basis of inspiration. As a result of this study the landscape notes had been transformed in stone, papyrus or parchment and the inscription returne...

Graduate
2000-2008 Ph. D Ancient Greek Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. National University of Mexico (UNAM).
1997-2000 Master on Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. National University of Mexico (UNAM).

Undergraduate
1985-1990 Bachelor on Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National University of Mexico (UNAM).
1983-1988 Bachelor on Fine Arts, specialization in Painting. National School of Painting, Sculpture and Etching "La Esmeralda". National Institute of Fine Arts/ Public Education Bureau (INBA/ SEP).

Solo Exhibitions

2001 “Echoes of sun and marble. Photography. Continuous Hall of Photography. National School of Plastic Arts. UNAM. Mexico City.
1992 "Late Works" Gallery of the Cultural Center "El Juglar". Mexico City.
1991 "Works on Paper" Gallery of Radio Station “Radio Educación”. Public Education Bureau (SEP). Mexico City.
1988 "The limits of joy" Gallery of the Faculty of Higher Studies Cuautitlán. National University of Mexico (UNAM). Mexico City.


Collective Exhibitions

2011 ● “The Goddess of the Morning Star”. Cultural Center “Bella Época”. Mexico City.
1995 "Collective Exhibition" Workshop "La Covacha de la Quimera". Mexico City.
1993 "Women at the Edge... of the New Millenium" Gallery of the Cultural Center "El Juglar". Mexico City.
1992 "Mar de fondo" Restaurant "Mama Rumba". Mexico City
1991 "Graphic, ‘La Esmeralda’ Workshops" Gallery of the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Etching "La ¬Esmeralda". National Institute of Fine Arts/ Public Education Bureau (INBA/ SEP). Mexico City.
1990 "From the Workshop of Juan José Beltrán" Gallery of the University Book House. National University of Mexico (UNAM). Mexico City.
1989 "Winter Collective" José María Velasco Gallery. National Ins...