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Studies:
Diplome in Egiptology, Centro de Estudios Sophia, Mexico City, 2017
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Erwin Wurm class. Specialization multimedia. Vienna, 2007- 2011
Universität für Bildende Kunst Vienna, 2007
Bachelor in fine arts: ENPEG “La Esmeralda” México City, 2000- 2005
Master studies in Psychoanalysis: CEPSIMAC: Centro de Estudios Psicoanalíticos Mexicano A.C. 2002-2005
Diplome in Dramatic Art: Puebla University: BUAP. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Facultad de Filosofía
y Letras. Mexico, 1995

Grants and Invitations:

AIR RAVI Ateliers, Vivegnis International, Liége, Belgium, 2016
AIR Tsinghua University Academy of Arts and Design, FONCA, Beijing China, 2014
AIR Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory, Vienna, Austria, 2013
AIR The Terrace Environment Artist Workshop in Shitiping for the Pangcah tribe, supported by the University of
Hualien, Taiwan. 2011
AIR Bamboo Curtain Studio. Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
AIR: “City Rules” Studios Lichtenberg. Berlin, Germany, 2011
AIR University of Luxembourg with Marie Taillefer: Fashion Animation Movie Photomeetings Luxembourg, 2010
AIR Photography Expanded Now! by Amer Abbas, CIC Contemporary Image Center. Cairo Egypt, 2009
Grant: Fundación Bilbao Arte, curatorial project: T-shArt fashion show, Bilbao Spain. 2008
Scholarship for foreign studies. FONCA, Vienna, Austria. 2008-2009-2010
INBA, CONACULTA, SRE, Multicultural and multidisciplinary project: The Crave Project: No Performance Needed.
Salzburg, Austria, 2007
Grant: “Graphic Arts traditional/digital” at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. Arts Fund of the
Provincial Capital of Salzburg and unnamed private sponsors. Salzburg, Austria, 2006
AIR Künstlerhaus Land Salzburg Studio. FONCA, Austria, 2005
AIR Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Waden-Wütemberg Stipendium, Germany, 2003
SEP (Secretary of Public Education Scholarship), Mexico City, 2002,2003,2004.
Solo Exhibitions:
Cruel Tales Of Impermanence. La Estación Galería, Mexico City, 2017
Drawing Intervention Project, The secret space we all really are. Casa de Cultura San Rafael, Mexico City, 2017
RAVI Ateliers Vivegnis International, All The Poems We`ve Killed, Liége, Belgium, 2016
Centro Cultural Donceles, MINI LOVE, Mexico City, 2016
Arcaute Gallery, Preview, Beijing, China, 2014
AA Collections, Kitty Riot Vienna, Austria, 2013
Atrio Centro Cultural, Brunch Affair México City, 2012
Mexican Embassy Cultural Center, The Sticky Kiss Experience Vienna, Austria, 2011.
C17, Voodoo Tales Vienna Austria, 2008.
Funk Fu Net, Click, drag and drop online gallery. Drawings about Cannibalism Prague, 2006
KBK Arte Contemporáneo, Virgin Kill Mexico City, 2006.
Proyectos Monclova, Sisters in your Closet Mexico City, 2006.
Open Studio: Twisted Sisters Landesatelier-Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria. 2005
Open Studio: Cannibal Love Landesatelier-Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria. 2005

Performance:
Sound Art and Visual Exploration Encounter: Academia de San Carlos with Bruno Bresani. Mexico City, 2013.
Fringe Festival Taipei: Jackie & Jacko in Wounderland. Performance, Objects and Installation. Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Dogpig Art: Jackie & Jacko in Wounderland. Kaohsiung,Taiwan, 2011
Bruegel Performance over Mariahilferstrasse with Lindsay Seers, Vienna, Austria, 2011
Kiss to Nauman Blink to Pina... Solo Performance Dance. Berlin, Germany, 2011
ZOOMATIC and Blind Love Performance by Alessa Esteban and Sergio Solís. Angewandte Open House. Vienna,
Austria, 2011
Krinzinger Gallery, Don’t Have Sex With Your Ex curated by Peter Nagy. Performance: Oh! These Viennese Nights!
Vienna, 2010
You are my lung, Performance Serie: Amor-taja-dos by Alessa Esteban and Sergio Solís. Atrio Centro Cultural,
Mexico City, 2010
Welcome to Egypt (Kairo Mit Alessa Esteban). Performance on the streets of Cairo, with Angelika Loderer. Cairo,
Egypt, 2010
Prater Sauna Nightclub Shower Show by the Twisted Sisters: Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Vienna, Austria,
2010
Peep Box Ottankring Festival, by the Twisted Sisters: Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Vienna, Austria, 2009
Cats in a Cage Roof Intervention, by the Twisted Sisters: Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Mexico City, 2009
Public Intervention, for the University of Applied Arts (Angewandte Kunst) Class Erwin Wurm, by the Twisted Sisters:
Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Vienna, Austria, 2007
No Performance Needed, with Sergio Solís and Rolando Martínez. Schmiede07: We Are. Salzburg Austria, 2007.

Collective Exhibitions and Festivals:

Honouring Degas, Fundación Sebastián, Mexico City, 2017
Me Ofrendo, MUTEM Museum of Tequila and Mezcal in Plaza Garibaldi, Mexico City, 2017
Coming to London, Chalton Gallery, London, 2017
Platonic Dust, Quinto Piso, Mexico City, 2017
15 years of exchange ENPEG-Karlsruhe, La Esmeralda Gallery, Mexico City, 2016
Casa Imelda, Tu Casa Mi Casa, Mexico City, 2016
Dessous, Girls, Vienna, Austria, 2015
The Showroom, Que Viva Mexico, Caochangdi, Beijing, China, 2014
Mac Foundation Essential moments art festival. Vienna Austria, 2013
La Quiñonera, KINOKABARET MEXICO CITY: International Film Festival. Mexico, 2013
Freies Museum Berlin, Sleepwalking Berlin, Germany, 2012.
Galerie im Ratskeller, Die Kunst der Intervention – Projekte der Lichtenberg Studios Berlín, Germany, 2012.
Kunsträume Vincent, LUXUS Vienna, Asutria, 2011
mo.ë verein kunst, Embassy Extravaganza, Vienna, Austria 2011
Artobia Gallery hosted by Hualien University, Installation, Hualien, Taiwan, 2011.
MAAC: Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo, Campo de Asociaciones. Dialogos y Silencios entre
prácticas de dibujo Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2011
Krinzinger Gallery, Don’t Have Sex With Your Ex curated by Peter Nagy. Vienna, 2010.
Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg and Engel Gallery, Photomeetings Luxembourg, 2010.
Kunstraum Praterstrasse 15, Angewandte, Expanded Egypted Vienna, Austria, 2010.
Stadtmuseum St. Pölten, Der Alte Mann und das Meer, Erwin Wurm und Klasse Austria, 2010
Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Salzburgo-México: Exposición Binacional Mexico City, 2010
Traklhaus Gallery, Mexiko-Salzburg Salzburg, Austria, 2010
Fabrica Features Lisboa, deixa-me lavar o caos da tua cabeça Portugal, 2010
Kunstraum Praterstrasse 15, Angewandte, SIte-Non-Site curated by Amer Abbas. Vienna, Austria, 2009
Carbon 12 Dubai, The Magnificent Seven Marina Dubai, 2009
Arcaute Arte Contemporáneo Gallery, WTC Internacional Art Fair Beijing, China, 2009
Carbon 12 Dubai, Sneak Preview. Marina Dubai, 2009
Arcaute Arte Contemporáneo Gallery, WTC Internacional Art Fair Beijing. Beijing, China, 2008
Arcaute Arte Contemporáneo Gallery, Corderos de Dios Monterrey Mexico, 2008
Guadalupe Inn, “K” Mexico City, 2008.
FIAC: Internacional Art Festival Contem, Lo que hace que el mundo gire es la fuerza de gravedad Leon
Guanajuato, Mexico, 2007
KBK art gallery, MACO Art Festival, Mexico City, 2007
Space #1 White Club, verein für junge kunst. Gossip Deluxe: Bikini Playground Salzburg, Austria, 2006
Art & Idea Vienna, Miami Scope Art Festival, Miami, 2006
Galerìa Luis Adelantado, Convocatoria artistas jóvenes. Valencia, España, 2006
Art & Idea Vienna, Miami Scope Art Festival, Miami, 2005
Ramis Barquet Gallery, Killing Me Softly New York, 2005
Galeria Ramis Barquet, Esta no es una canción de amor Mty, Mexico, 2005
Art & Idea Galería, Arco Art Festival, Madrid, España, 2005
Garash Galería, Noviembre Mexico City, 2004
Galerìa CNA’s 10th anniversary. X years, La Esmeralda in the CENART Mexico City, 2004
UNAM Science Faculty, La Esmeralda student’s Collective show. Mexico City, 2004.
Poly Galerie, Collective Show, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2004.
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Summerausstellung Karlsruhe, Germany, 2003
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Erasmus Ausstellung, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2003
Biennale, XXIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Mexico, 2003
X Biennale of Diego Rivera, Mexico City, 2002.
Chopo museum, Festival Lesbico-Gay, Mexico City, 2002.
Politécnico National University. Mexico City, 2001
“Mirarte” festival, Photography. Mexico City, 2001
National Center of Arts. (CNA). Cinematography school center's gallery. (CCC). Mexico City.
León Totsky Museum, Photography contest: Los Cuatro Elementos Mexico City, 2000

Special Projects:
Art Project Manager: Platonic Dust exhibition, workshop and residency for Austrian Artist Angelika Loderer:
ENPEG Esmeralda host for workshop and working space, Austrian Embassy for flight funding and Quinto Piso host for
exhibition space. Mexico City, 2017.
Art Project Manager: KINOKABARET MEXICO CITY at La Quiñonera. Support by Foro Cultural de la embajada de
Austria en México, Prince Carl Foundation, La Quiñonera and Casa Serra. With invited artists from France, Austria,
Uruguay, Hungary, California and Mexico. Mexico City, 2013, 2016.
Art Project Manager: T-shArt fashion show at Casa del Lago bosque de Chapultepec. Support by the Austrian
Embassy in Mexico, UNAM University, Red Bull energy drink, Absolut Vodka and Samsung electronics. Mexico City,
2008
Art Project Manager: The Crave Project: No Performance Needed artistic exchange between Mexico City, and
Austria. Festival Schmiede07:We Are. Support of the schmiede festival, CONACULTA, SRE and INBA. Hallein,
Salzburg, 2007
Director: ArTwisted Projects: Promotion and Organization of art and cultural events with artists from Europe and
Mexico. 2007
Art Project Manager: Vice Versa- Artist Exchange, Austrian artists in Casa Vecina, Short art residency. Support by
the Austrian Embassy in Mexico, Casa Vecina, Hotel Virreyes and the cultural corridor of the Centre of Mexico City.
Mexico, 2006
Artist Exchange: art promotion and multicultural event organization between Austria and Mexico City, 2006
Schmiede06 – Transfer, playground of ideas and work-in-progress festival, 20-30 September, Pernerinsel Hallein,
Painted Bilboards: “But mother, I want to ruin my life” and “I want everything, and I want it NOW!” Salzburg, Austria,
2006
La Perrera cultural Space, Exhibition and open sell of t-shirts-artist readymade. Fashion Show. Puebla, Mexico. 2005.

International workshops:
Itto Morita, Goo Say Ten: Intensive Butoh Dance. Sapporo, Japan, 2014
Lindsay Seers: Invited artist from London. Vienna, Austria, 2010-2011
Elfie Semotan and Erwin Wurm: Art Show Performance & Photos. Vienna, Austria, 2011
Peter Nagy: Invited Gallery director from Berlin and New Dehli. Vienna, Austria, 2010
Marc Olivier Wahler: “Improve Your Schizophrenic Quotient” Vienna, Austria, 2010
Mutok & Sergio Solìs: Intensive Butoh Dance workshops. La Fábrica in Querétaro, Mexico; ENAT Mexico; WUK
Vienna, 2009-2011.
Maria Inés García Canal: “Violence and Eroticism”, CNA. Mexico, 2003
Miguel Ventura: Drawing Summer class: ENPEG: “La Esmeralda” Mexico, 2002
Production Design, Art Design. CNA, Mexico, 2001-2002
Francisco Hernàndez: Express poetry workshop. CNA. Mexico, 2000
Course on Film and Painting in the age of Avant-garde: Cineteca Nacional. Mexico, 1998
Poetry workshop: Casa del Escritor de Cancún Qroo. Mexico,1997
Literary Critic workshop: Casa del Escritor de Cancún Qroo. Mexico,1997
1st National Congress of Dramatic Art Investigation: UDLA Puebla. Asociación Mexicana de Investigación
Teatral. Puebla, Mexico, 1995

Activities and Teaching:

Publication El Libro Rojo IV by CONACULTA, edited by Gerardo Villadeangel. Mexico City 2014, 2016
Tutor preparing students for application test for the fine arts Academy La ENPEG: La Esmeralda. Mexico City 2013,
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Volunteer in charge of the international Jury at film festival: FICUNAM, UNAM, Mexico City, 2013
Class for artists of last semester: Acordes para la Insolencia At the Fine Arts academy: La ENPEG: La Esmeralda.
Mexico City, 2012
Workshop at CENART, Calacas festival, CONACULTA Alas y Raíces, El Juguete Infinito, Performance for children
Mexico City, 2012.
Workshop at Casa Frisac Tlalpan, CONACULTA Alas y Raíces, La Luz y yo, drawing for children Mexico City, 2012.
Workshop at Casa Frisac Tlalpan, for CONACULTA Alas y Raíces, FUTUROBOT: arma tu amigo del futuro, collage
for children Mexico City, 2012
Workshop at Biblioteca Vasconcelos, CONACULTA Alas y Raíces, FUTUROBOT: arma tu amigo del futuro, collage for
children Mexico City, 2012
Illustration for web page CONACULTA Alas y Raíces, Mexico City, 2012
llustration for Somos Lobas book writen by Javier Elizondo, Mexico City, 2012
Independent Workshop: Performance for Professional Actors. Mexico City, 2012
Workshop Drawing “La Esquizofrenia del Horror” at Fine Arts Academy: La Esmeralda. Mexico City, 2012
Jury for the State Visual Art Contests in Villahemosa Tabasco Mexico, 2011
Perfromance workshop by Alessa Esteban and Sergio Solís, Cultural Institute of the Mexican Embassy in Austria,
Vienna, Austria, 2011.
Organized Logistics for Butoh Dance workshop, with invited artists: Sergio Solís, in WUK kunstlerhaus, Vienna,
Austria, 2010
Publication El Libro Rojo III by CONACULTA, Mexico City 2008
Invited artist work presentation Bildende Kunst University, Hans Scheirl class. 2007. Vienna Austria, 2007
Selected artist Art catalogue: guide to collectors by MART. Published by Cuarta Pared Editorial. Mexico City, 2007
Project El Bolso Negro, (second edition) curated by Ivan Edeza, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, 2007.
Schmiede06 – Transfer, playground of ideas and work-in-progress festival, Salzburg, Austria, 2006
Illustrated Book for the Children Al Agua Patos with Uribe-Ferrari Editions. Mexico City, 2005
Invited Artist in the book: My first drawing book edited by Daniel Guzmán. Mexico City, 2004
Magazine Publication Re-generación Drawings and Text: “El origen de la Perversión” Mexico City, 2002
Series of objects and drawings: All The Poems We’ve Killed, 2016
Installation View, Measures Variable.
RAVI residences-ateliers Vivegnis International.
Artist in Residency at Tsinghua University Academy of Arts and Design, sponsored by
Mexican funds for the Arts: FONCA, in Beijing China, 2014. Granted with 5,000 USD
price, production, flight and accommodation and a big great studio provided in the
university campus.
During this time I produced the series Too Bright To Look Closer exhibited in the solo Show
Preview of my artwork in Arcaute Gallery; and in the collective show Viva Mexico in the
Showroom from Nikolaus Eldrot in Caochangdi.

Together with my performance partner, Sergio Solís, we went to Japan to take an

intensive Butoh Dance Workshop with one recognized Japanese Butoh Dancer from
the third original generation: Itto Morita, from the dance company: Goo Say Ten.
Sapporo, Japan, 2014

Artist in Residency at Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory, Group of

female artists working together in a shared space in
Gumpendorferstr. For the sake of technological and visual
arts. Vienna, 2013. No grants offered, but the space to
work and prepare my solo show Kitty Riot presented in Aa
Collections located at Burgasse 68, in Vienna, 2013.

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Invited by the Cultural Institute of the Mexican Embassy in Vienna, we gave a Performance
workshop about Public Space Occupation, Making interventions in the city like the subway
station at Praterstr. Ubahn and Urban Loritz Platz with architect Doris Klein me, and Sergio
Solís, Vienna, Austria, 2011. We presented I’m not Tracey Emin by occupying the center of
Urban Loritz Platz with a camping tent pretending to live there for a day and ordering a
pizza to this public location, activating the space as a useful area.

Organized Logistics for Butoh

Dance workshop, with invited
artists: Sergio Solís, in WUK
kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria,
2010.

Artist in Residency at the Terrace Environment Artist Workshop in Shitiping for the Pangcah
tribe, supported by the University of Hualien, Taiwan. 2011.
Here we were invited to work with the Pangcah tribe, formed by Taiwanese aborigines
Artists. DaDaDa exhibition in Artobia Gallery.
Artist in Residency at Bamboo Curtain Studio. Taipei, Taiwan, 2011.
Place for staying was granted while we prepared the Performance Jackie & Jacko for the
Fringe festival in Taipei, presented in Wolong 29 cultural center, Taipei, Taiwan.

Artist in Residency with the Wurm class, for the project: “City Rules” in the Studios
Lichtenberg in Berlin, Germany, 2011. Supported by the Angewandte Kunst: University of
Applied Arts of Vienna. Accommodation and Production was granted. During this time I
made several Performances public interventions around the Lichtenberg district.

Artist in Residency during the Photomeetings X Festival hosted by the University of

Luxembourg, Workshop granted, with Marie Taillefer: Fashion Animation Movie. Stay and
production granted by The Angewandte Kunst: University of Applied Arts from Vienna.
During this time we exhibit in the Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg and Engel
Gallery, Luxemburg, 2010.
Bruegel was a Performance Intervention over Mariahilferstrasse with British artist Lindsay
Seers, visiting the Kunsthistorisches Museum we spent half an hour each of us memorizing
Bruegel’s painting Children's Games in order to reinterpret the middle character who has a
long stick and a hat over the face blocking his view, walking through the careless crowd of
Mariahilferstrasse. Vienna, Austria, 2011

ZOOMATIC and Blind Love Performance by Alessa Esteban and Sergio Solís.
Angewandte Open House. And Photoshooting by Elfie Semotan. Vienna, Austria, 2011
These two performances were realized during the Elfie Semotan and Erwin Wurm lecture
and worshop: Runways held in the Angewandte Kunst in December 2010.

Artist in Residency and workshop granted by the Angewandte Kunst: University of Applied
Arts Vienna, for the Photography Expanded Now! Project by curator Amer Abbas, hosting
CIC Contemporary Image Center. Cairo Egypt, 2009. During this residency I made several
Performances and Public Interventions. And later the results were shown in Vienna at the
exhibition: Expanded Egypted, Praterstr. 15 kunstraum.
Grant for money budget to realize the curatorial project: T-shArt fashion show, hosted by
the Art Foundation: FundaciónBilbao Arte. All travel expenses, accommodation, production,
and event was given. During this time we exhibited Tshirts made by designers and artists
from Austria, Mexico and Spain in a performative runaway event. Bilbao Spain. 2008

National Institute for The Arts of Mexico: INBA, National Institute for Culture and Arts:
CONACULTA, and External Relations: SRE, supported us with a grant for international
transportation and production to realize the Multicultural and multidisciplinary project: The
Crave Project: No Performance Needed for the Schmiede07:We are Art Festival in Hallein.
Being a short residency to produce a big Performance event for the Festival in collaboration
with Austrian Artists. Salzburg, Austria, 2007.

Selected for the “Graphic Arts traditional/digital” Konrad

Winter class, at the Salzburg International Summer
Academy of Fine Arts granted by the Arts Fund of the
Provincial Capital of Salzburg and unnamed private
sponsors. Salzburg, Austria, 2006
White Club, verein für junge kunst. It was a complete event with many invited artists
performers and musicians, I had the pleasure to be invited by the White Club group to the
Gossip Deluxe event, Space #1: Bikini Playground with a window intervention painting as
a massive installation. Salzburg, Austria, 2006

Artist in Residency in Künstlerhaus Land Salzburg Studio, granted by National Funds for
the Arts: FONCA during this period of time I realized the Cannibal Love Series and open
studios: Twisted Sisters and Cannibal Love, in the great city of Salzburg, Austria, 2005

AIR Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Waden-Wütemberg Stipendium,

scholarship exchange for one semester. Germany, 2003

Scholarship for foreign studies. This Grant was given for three years by the Cultural
Mexican Institution of Support for the National Arts: FONCA; to study the specialized
studies of sculpture and Multimedia with Erwin Wurm at the Angewandte Kunst: University
of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. 2008-2009-2010.
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