Laureana Toledo (born 1970) is a Mexican

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. She has had solo exhibitions at

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and at

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in Mexico City. A work of Toledo's outdoor sculpture is included in the permanent collections of the

Museo de Arte Moderno The Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) is a museum dedicated to modern Mexican art located in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and provides exhibitions of national and internat ...

in Mexico City, and the

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in New York.

Early life

Toledo was born in

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in 1970. She is the daughter of Mexican artist

Francisco Toledo Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (17 July 1940 – 5 September 2019) was a Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. In a career that spanned seven decades, Toledo produced thousands of works of art and became widely regarded as one of M ...

. Her siblings include artist Dr. Lakra and poet

Natalia Toledo Natalia Toledo Paz (born 1968) is a Mexican poet who writes in Spanish language, Spanish and Zapotec language, Zapotec. Her work helped to revive interest in the Zapotec language. Ida Kozlowska-Day states that Toledo is "one of the most recognize ...

Career

Toledo began as a photographer, and later incorporated drawing, painting, video, sound and sculpture into her work. From January to March 2009, she was an artist in residence at

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, a contemporary art organisation in

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, UK. She has been on the artists council of and is a co-founder of SOMA, an educational art space in Mexico City which hosts international artists, curators, critics, and art historians in residential programs. According to a SOMA Summer artist-in-residence description,

Laureana is inspired by the imperceptible or transient moments of the everyday, speculating on how such phenomena can gain new forms of visual presentation. Her work often involves systematic and repetitive interventions into different media (texts, books, photographs, paintings, etc.) to re-code their existing narratives.

In 2015, Toledo's work, ''Order and Progress,'' presented at the

in Mexico City, investigated the links between Mexico and Great Britain. In 2019, Toledo exhibited an installation at

Museo Jumex Museo may refer to: * ''Museum'' (2018 film), Mexican drama heist film * Museo station, station on line 1 of the Naples Metro {{disambiguation ...

in Mexico City. She selected books, records and films from Mick Jones (of

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)'s private collection.

Personal life

Toledo lives and works in

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Publications

*''Laureana Toledo peripheral vision, 1997–2000''. Guadalajara, México: Museo de las Artes, 2001. In English and Spanish. *''Paan''. Mexico: Diamantina Conaculta, 2006. . Exhibition catalogue. In Spanish. *''The Limit''. London: Trolley, 2009. . *''The waste land'. Mexico. 2023

Awards and honors

*A mid-career award from the Cisneros Fontanls Art Foundation *2004: International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) residency, New York City *2009:

residency, London

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions or exhibitions with one other

*''Laureana Toledo/Sam Samore,''

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, Mexico City, 2005 *''Order and Progress,''

, Mexico City, 2015 *''...but it often rhymes'',

Museo Jumex Museo may refer to: * ''Museum'' (2018 film), Mexican drama heist film * Museo station, station on line 1 of the Naples Metro {{disambiguation ...

, Mexico City, January–March 2019

Group exhibitions

*''Strategic Questions,'' , Berlin, 2005 *''Declaraciones 2'',

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, Madrid, 2005 *''Nombres propios'', Caja Negra gallery at art fair, Madrid, 2008 *''Abstract Cabinet'', in collaboration with

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(of

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), Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, September–November 2009. Included their ''Correspondencia''. *''Yes,''

Trolley Gallery Trolley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, which are also perceived as part of the area d ...

, London, March–April 2010

Collections

Toledo's work is held in the following permanent collections: *Jardín Escultórico of the

, Mexico City – a work of outdoor sculpture *

, New York – a work of outdoor sculpture

Bibliography

*''Espacio de experimentación sonora + arte en vivo, 2015 : sound experimentation space + live art, 2015''. Ciudad de México: MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2016.

References

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