Pedro Alonzo

Freelance Curator

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

6pm-7:30pm

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Biography

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Pedro Alonzo is a freelance curator who has worked extensively in Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States. From 1996-2002 he was an adjunct curator at the Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, where he curated a series of exhibitions of artists from the Carribean and Mexico. He was also involved as a guest curator at Estacion Tijuana in Mexico. Alonzo has developed projects and organized exhibitions with many artists including: Miguel Calderon, Quisqueya Enriquez, Rineke Dijkstra, FAILE, Meshac Gaba, Rivane Neuenschwander, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Chuck Ramirez, Paula Santiago, Dan Graham and Marcos Ramirez “Erre”.

Most recently he curated a major street art exhibition, “Spank the Monkey”, as well as “Freakshow” at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England and “Generations UsA” at the Pinchuk Arte Centre in Kiev, Ukraine. He is now working on a book for the German publisher Die Gestalen Verlag and a large scale group exhibition in his home town at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Since late 2007 he has been based in Boston, MA.

Major Accomplishments

Alonzo has organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and culture, including Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape (2010) at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Dr. Lakra (2010) at the ICA/Boston; and Generations UsA (2007) at the Pinchuk Arte Centre in Kiev, Ukraine. 

He co-curated Spank the Monkey (2006) at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England and Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand (2009) at the ICA/Boston. 

Alonzo has developed projects and organized exhibitions with many artists including Miguel Calderon, Quisqueya Enriquez, Rineke Dijkstra, FAILE, Rivane Neuenschwander, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Paula Santiago, Dan Graham and Marcos Ramirez “Erre”. 

He received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the Instituto Technologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico in 1995.