Miguel Monroy
Critiques the ways that institutions exert control over people through his conceptual work. From absurd rules and street signs to protest songs, his sculptures and videos disrupt the ways in which systems act upon us. He deftly uses technology to reveal slippages, questioning privileged perspectives enforcing oppression on it’s people. He creates awareness and opens a space of critical institutional rejection.
Traffic Signs (This is not..) 2020,
Traffic signs (Pay no attention…), 2020,
Miguel Monroy’s (b. Mexico City) work dissembles the meaning of objects and systems in daily life through the fields of video, photography and sculpture. He earned his MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University in 2020 and attended the Certification in Photography and New Media in Centro de la Imágen in 2001.
His work has been shown in galleries and cultural spaces in Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, United States, and Belgium among others. In 2018, he received the Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship from The San Francisco Foundation. In 2016, he presented Robbery to an art fair in ZonaMACO Sur. In 2012, he published the book Transporte transportado with the support of Fundación/Colección Jumex.
Monroy has participated in artistic residencies in Switzerland (2006), Quebec (2012) and Mexico (2012 and 2015). Monroy has been teaching workshops and graduate courses of contemporary art at institutions in Merida, Puebla, and Mexico City, as well as in California, USA. He has taught installation art at UNARTE, Puebla. Since 2015 he has been a member of the FONCA´s Sistema Nacional de Creadores.