Christian Becerra
His work activates the symbolic value of documents and objects to question identity, migration, and power.
Mexican visual artist from Mexico City whose practice engages with the symbolic potential of documents and everyday objects as material for reflecting on identity, migration, and structures of power. Through playful experimentation with the materiality of contemporary life, he constructs images that function as catalysts for rethinking current social and political realities, encouraging critical readings of the systems that shape them.
He holds an MFA in Artistic Production from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos and a BA in Visual Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda,” Mexico City. He is a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions and in more than seventy group exhibitions in Mexico and internationally, including BIENALSUR and the Puebla Biennial. He has received several distinctions, including first prize at the International Festival of the Image.
