Alicia Valladares and José Fernando Gress Muñoz

Alicia Valladares is a visual artist and cultural manager. She studied at La Esmeralda and earned a certificate in Art Business from Universidad Iberoamericana. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Latin American Art History at Casa Lamm. 

Her practice investigates online image–consumption algorithms and reinterprets digital aesthetics through a combination of traditional and digital techniques. 

Her work has been shown in Mexico, Germany, Russia, and the United States, including exhibitions at Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Roam Projects, Schau Fenster Kreuzberg, K320 Gallery, and Museo Universitario del Chopo. In 2024, her work was successfully auctioned at Jeschke Jádi, and her project Buenas Intenciones (with Fernando Gress Muñoz) won Best Collective Exhibition in an Independent Space at the Gorrita Azul Awards. In 2025, she participates in group exhibitions in Berlin and the U.S., supported by initiatives like Works on Skin and galleries such as Schau Fenster, HilbertRaum, Gallery Bogart, and Libertine Hollywood. 

José Fernando Gress Muñoz is an artist, cultural manager, and curator. His work in sculpture, painting, and alternative media incorporates found and recycled materials, exploring imitation, bootleg culture, and digital replicas through a critical view of contemporary art and meme–time aesthetics. 

Based in Mexico City since 2021, he has participated in exhibitions at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, the Three Pesos Triennial, Killscreendotcom (Los Angeles), and the Museo de Arte de Zapopan. 

He won the 2024 Gorrita Azul Award for Best Collective Exhibition in an Independent Space for Buenas Intenciones, created with Alicia Valladares. In early 2025, he published his artist book annotaciones sobre cómo hacer/entender/encontrar escultura contemporánea in collaboration with poet and artist Augusto Sonrics and the independent project Sucesiva.