Name: Arturo Hernàndez Alcàzar
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Year of Birth: 1978
Areas of Work: Visual Art, Video, Objects, Installation, Sculpture, Drawing, Sound
Website: www.arturohernandezalcazar.blogspot.com, www.dukanhourdequin.com

From 1996 till 2001 Arturo Hernàndez Alcàzar studied Visual Arts at La Esmeralda, in Mexico City.
His works consists of an opened and unstable processes which seeks to materialize a series of mental operations where the idea of dislocation, crack or mutations of a system are vital.

His pieces are dèrives, synergy, resultant energy, fragments thrown of an open process that find body in the shape of folding sculptures, actions, interruptions, movements, interventions to architecture, campaigns, drawings, binnacles, videos and other backups that are recognized in the quality of instability as referring to the condition of the contemporary individual and the crisis context.

His works has been showed in such different forums, galleries, apartments, street corners, industrial areas, museums and independent spaces. Most representative are: Resisting the Present. México 2000 - 2012, Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris & Museo Amparo de Puebla (Angeles Alonso & Angeline Scherf); Go Tell fire Dukan-Hourdequin Galerie, Paris; Disponible, A kind of a Mexican Show, Walter & McBean Galleriy at San Francisco Art Institute and Gallery, School of Fine Arts Boston in 2011 (Hou Hanru – Guillermo Santamarina); Restes at Ignacio Mejía Galerie in 2012, Paris; Tiempo de Sospecha (Time of Suspicious), Modern Art Museum, 2011, México (Victor Palacios- Oswaldo Sánchez); No Trabajes Nunca / Never Work at MUCA-CU, México, 2010 (Guillermo Santamarina); Nightcomers, Istanbul Biennale, 2007 (Hou Hanru, Pelin Uran); Periódico / Newspaper, solo exhibition at Galería La Esmeralda (2001); Correo_doméstico in collaboration with harto_espacio and Galería Parásito in Montevideo (2004) and Prague (2007); There Will be Dust (2008) and Walking Distance (2007), at Noordkaap Art Space in Dordrecht, The Netherlands (Katja Diallo).

Co-founder of artists collective Mutante in México City (2003-2006) and between 2007-2008 co found Archivo en Proceso, a one year operation project for site specific and temporary interventions in buildings and public spaces in Mexico City. In 2006, obtained the National Arts Production Grant by the FONCA in México to develop the project: Dust-economy project.

Artist in Residence at the Noordkaap Art Space (2008, FONCA; Noordkaap Stiftung, SRE, Mexican Embassy) in The Netherlands; Cité des Arts, Paris, 2012 (Conaculta, MAMVP, Institute Francaise, Ville de Paris) and in 2012 at Am_Phoenix (Berlin), supported by the Independent Residencies Program from FONCA-Conacyt, México.

Has collaborated with the Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie and the Munich Kunstakademie in Germany. Has teach seminars and lectures at UNARTE, Puebla; La Esmeralda, Mexico city; the Arts Faculty at the University of Morelos in México; X Teresa Museum, México City; Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, México City, and others. He has appeared in diverse publications as Art Press, France, Noordkaap News, The Netherlands, Letras LIbres in México and the catalogues Paradigm Shifts with the San Fancisco Art Institute and Hou Hanru and Resisting the Present (Ed. RM). He was a collaborator of Velocidad Crítica Magazine from 2001-2004.