Laureana Toledo
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Laureana Toledo is a Mexican artist
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Toledo lives and works in Mexico City
. She began as a photographer, who later added drawing, painting, video, sound and sculpture into her work. From January - March 2009, she was an artist in residence at Gasworks, a contemporary art organisation in South London
, UK.
Toledo is the daughter of Francisco Toledo
.
, London
, 2010
• Abstract Cabinet at Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2009 in collaboration with John Taylor of Duran Duran
• Nombres propios at Caja Negra, Madrid
, 2008
• Laureana Toledo/Sam Samore Galería OMR a Mexico City
, 2005
• Declaraciones 2Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
, 2005
• Strategics Questions Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlín
, 2005
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
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Toledo lives and works in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
. She began as a photographer, who later added drawing, painting, video, sound and sculpture into her work. From January - March 2009, she was an artist in residence at Gasworks, a contemporary art organisation in South London
South London
South London is the southern part of London, England, United Kingdom.According to the 2011 official Boundary Commission for England definition, South London includes the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and...
, UK.
Toledo is the daughter of Francisco Toledo
Francisco Toledo
Francisco Benjamín López Toledo is a Mexican graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria...
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Exhibitions
• Yes - Wed 17 March - at Trolley GalleryTrolley Gallery
Trolley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch, east London, which emerged independently and alongside the already established Trolley Books in 2003. The gallery exhibits the work of new, emerging artists and is often host to first solo shows...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, 2010
• Abstract Cabinet at Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
2009 in collaboration with John Taylor of Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
• Nombres propios at Caja Negra, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, 2008
• Laureana Toledo/Sam Samore Galería OMR a Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, 2005
• Declaraciones 2Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, 2005
• Strategics Questions Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlín
Berlín
Berlín is a municipality in the Usulután department of El Salvador.-Overview:The municipality of Berlín is made up of an urban center and 17 cantons or villages...
, 2005