Episode 64 - Alejandro Garcia Contreras

Alejandro Garcia Contreras, the boundary-defying artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, has just opened an exhibition in Paris at Lefebvre & Fils, one of the city’s oldest and most distinguished galleries. The exhibition runs from September 10 through October 10, 2026, at 24 rue du Bac.

The gallery describes Alejandro’s practice as an ongoing experimentation and dialogue between materials and technical processes. His work moves effortlessly among painting, sculpture, photography, video and the graphic arts.

His list of accomplishments are a mile long—far too long for me to recite here. But visit DigiDame.com, where you can explore his remarkable career, along with photographs and videos of his work.

What fascinates me most is the world Alejandro creates. Lefebvre & Fils describes his work as an invitation to explore the divine and the evil, the magical, the erotic and the feminine—even the taboo dimensions of our own unconscious. These are not passive works of art. They challenge you, seduce you and occasionally unsettle you.

Alejandro’s art has received international recognition and has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, Canada and Japan.

In the U.S., his work has been shown by galleries including Swivel, Anat Ebgi , Friedman Benda and David Castillo, plus multiple art fairs.

In Mexico, he has exhibited at major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Ex Colegio de San Ildefonso, the Ex Teresa Museum, the National Center for the Arts, the Chopo University Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey.

The big news is that approximately 30 of Alejandro’s sculptures will be shown at Plataforma, Guadalajara’s premier museum, the last week of January during the city’s art week and one week before the big art exhibitions, Zona Maco and Material in Mexico City. 

I first met Alejandro six years ago in Guadalajara while traveling with Fountainhead Arts. I don’t consider myself an art aficionado in the traditional sense, but I do believe I have an instinct for recognizing a serious artist—someone with something urgent, original and deeply personal to express. I felt that immediately with Alejandro.

A few years later, Eliot and I bought our first Garcia Contreras sculpture from Graham Wilson of Swivel Gallery in New York. In many ways, that piece tells the story of our own appetite for daring art—art that refuses to behave.

There is so much energy in this sculpture that I sometimes feel as though I can actually hear it speaking to me. And the message is always the same - Live life on your own terms.

There is something wonderfully reassuring about living with art that doesn’t merely decorate your home, but reflects who you are, challenges how you think, and—in our case—honors the choices you have made with your life.

And that is exactly what Alejandro Garcia Contreras’s art does for us.