Mexico City, Mexico, 1987
Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.

Allan Villavicencio thinks of the pictorial process as metabolism in constant transformation, one that he develops through paintings and mixed media assemblages. His body of work challenges the everyday to generate new narratives of perception. This contextualizes the pretext to seek the visible in unfolded perspectives and to interrogate the virtuality of the spaces we live in. By virtuality, Villavicencio means the imaginary visual scenarios we create when we pay attention to our surroundings, that can take place in small cracks, hidden creases, subtle shadows, etc.

Multidimensional, his practice explores various mediums including painting, drawing, collage, three-dimensional structures and installations. It develops at the intersection of perception theories, the architecture topologies within the city landscapes, and the relationship between the clothing, the bodies and the objects that inhabit both the private and public spaces.Allan Villavicencio endows them with expansive and emotional qualities, creating “residual landscapes”. In this sense, his pieces reveal ecosystems of material, form, and texture that highlight how the fragmentary nature of the works makes up the whole.

Allan Villavicencio is currently a beneficiary of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA), he was awarded the Honorary Distinction for the XVIII Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial in 2018 (Museo Tamayo, Mexico City) and is a three-time recipient of the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA).

Villavicencio has completed several residencies including Casa Nano (Tokyo, JP, 2024), Casa Wabi (Oaxaca, MX, 2021) and Cité des Arts (Paris, FR, 2019). His work has been exhibited in institutions in Mexico such as Museo Experimental El Eco, Museo Tamayo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Museo de Arte de Sonora, among others. .

In the past years, Villavicencio has been part of many exhibitions in Mexico, France, the USA, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, Colombia, Peru, and Austria. Recent solo shows include: No hay un centro, sólo dar la vuelta at Museo Experimental El Eco (Mexico City, MX, 2024) The Active Side of Infinity at Galerie Mitterrand (Paris, FR, 2023), frutiplanismo at Salón ACME (Mexico City, MX, 2022) and Pieles ciegas at Galería Karen Huber (Mexico City, MX, 2021).

His work has been reviewed in Frieze, Artsy, Viewpoint Colour, La Tempestad, Crash Magazine, Travesías; and is part of the permanent collections of Jorge Pérez Related Group (Miami), Museo MATE (Lima), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes) and Colección Arena (Madrid).

Please visit the PROJECTS section in our website to see his 2024 solo show at Museo Experimental el Eco.