About

Alicia Marván (Mexico) is an artist, designer and curator dedicated to contemporary and experimental practices. She is currently Director of the Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology (Mexico), Associate Artist with Lower Left Performance Collective (USA/Europe), and collaborates with independent artists from different disciplines worldwide.

Her interdisciplinary approach to art/life has led her to an ongoing investigation of a variety of media that explores color, space, form, movement, time and thought. Always interested in the dialogue between art and life, as well as the interaction between art/space/viewer, her work often incorporates alternative spaces such as urban, industrial and natural settings. Creative topics range from the deeply personal to social and environmental issues. Current projects bridge performance, sculpture and poetry, delving into human physicality and identity as they relate to place and history.

Her work has received support from cultural organizations and academic institutions in Mexico, USA, Canada, Germany and The Netherlands such as FreeDimensional, the Breuninger Foundation, the Goethe Institut, Stroom Den Haag, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Tree Museum, Movement Research, PRISMA Forum, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, and the University of the Americas, among others.

She studied Dance and Performance Art and has trained on the field as a visual artist and designer at renowned design, architecture and performing arts companies such as Gluckman Mayner Architects and Julia Mandle Performance (NYC). Influential teachers and artists include Hussein Chalayan, Matthew Barney, Robert Wilson, Pina Bausch, Gordon Matta-Clark, Wolfgang Laib, Maya Lin, Trisha Brown, Nina Martin, Mary Reich, Rachel Rosenthal and Anna Halprin.