photo: Nattan Guzmán
Allan Villavicencio (b. 1987 Mexico City) is a Paris based artist who thinks of the pictorial process as metabolism in constant transformation, one that he develops through paintings and mixed media assemblages. His body of work challenges the everyday to generate diferents narratives of perception. This contextualizes the pretext to seek the visible in unfolded perspectives and to interrogate the experience of the spaces we live in. He endows them with expansive and emotional qualities, creating “residual landscapes”. In this sense, his pieces reveal ecosystems of material, form, and texture that highlight how the fragmentary nature of the works makes up the whole.
His work has been exhibited in institutions and galleries including Museo Tamayo and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, MAZ- Museo de Arte de Zapopan (Guadalajara), River (Taiwan), Friedman Benda (New York), Dirimart (Istanbul), and Kunstraum Schauplatz (Vienna), among others. Solo exhibitions include No hay un centro, sólo dar la vuelta at Museo Experimental El Eco (Mexico City, 2024); El borde en donde estar at Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City, 2024); and The Active Side of Infinity at Galerie Mitterrand (Paris, 2023).
His work is part of public collections such as The Related Group (Miami), Museo MATE (Lima), Collection Artissima (Lyon), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes), and Colección Zarur (Guadalajara). Allan Villavicencio is the recipient of the Honorable Mention at the 18th Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial (2018). He is currently a fellow of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores from the Mexican National Fund for Culture which previously awarded him the Young Creators Grant on three occasions. He was invited as artist in residence at La Cité des Arts (Paris), Casa Nano (Tokyo), Casa Wabi (Oaxaca), and Taller Mexicano de Gobelinos (Guadalajara).
studio@allanvillavicencio.net