ALEXA RAMÍREZ POSADA

 Alexa was born in 1999 in Mexico City surrounded by artwork made by her Abuelo Chavo in her small home. She moved to Chicago in 2008, where she first encountered the feeling of nostalgia in being away from home. Now she works with her personal family’s archives as a conduit to her core childhood memories in an effort to enact them as both medium and subject matter. 

She utilizes the process involved in printmaking as an allegory for the distorted and uncanny process of memory-making, losing, repression and retraction, and actively processes the effects of violent border nations, surveillance states, and beauricratic documentation through her practice. She prints on impractical objects (glass, furniture, etc) in conversation with rasquachismo and domesticana.

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Her interest in curating as a profession began after receving the Mellon Undergrad Curatorial Fellowship at LACMA in 2020 while finishing her BA at Pomona College, where she majored in Studio Art and minored in both Media Studies & Chicanx-Latinx Studies. After studying under the Decorative Arts and Design department, she knew she wanted to combine her disciplines to build her own curatorial and art historical practice.

She is most interested in exploring the bounds of modern and contemporary Latinx avant-garde. She sees curating as an extension of her artistic practice, where she aims to utilize institutional history to center decolonization, queerness, and anti-power liberation. 
As a curator, she hopes to be able to bend the boundaries and hierarchies between spectator and spectacle.