2025 – The Museo de la Bolsa (MUBO) presents the exhibition “Women: Stories and Memories,” a photographic show featuring the work of five renowned visual artists: Lourdes Almeida, Rosi Calderón, Cristina Kahlo, Orly Morgenstern, and Lou Peralta.
Curated by Emma Cecilia García Krinsky and coordinated by HORZ Asociados, the exhibition brings together 56 photographs and photo-sculptures that invite viewers to delve into the unique visual language of each artist. Through their lenses, the photographers capture stories, memories, and reveries, exploring female identity from diverse perspectives.
Featured on the front page of Reforma’s Newspaper Culture section – April 11, 2025
Interview with Lou Peralta by Cuartoscuro Magazine – April 10, 2025
Exhibition “Women: Stories and Memories” at the Museo de la Bolsa (MUBO), Mexico City
Exhibiting three distinct stages of her evolving Disassemble Series (2018–2023), a body of work that explores portraiture through photo-sculpture, memory, and material fragmentation.
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One of Lou Peralta's unique works, “The gold lady” is part of the exquisite cigar lounge at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Dallas @kbshowhouse, designed by the prestigious team at Traci Connell Interiors @traciconnellinteriors and MHM LIVING @mhmliving.
This space is more than just a place: it’s an experience of pure sophistication and design, where art and elegance intertwine.
Koslov Larsen Art Gallery in Houston, available at https://koslovlarsen.gallery/, represents the work of Lou Peralta, visual artist and contemporary photographer. Discover more about her work at https://www.louperalta.art/.
The Show House will be open until November 13th. Get your tickets to immerse yourself in this incredible experience and discover the magic behind every detail! 🏡
Photo © @cocollect.art taken by @LindsayBrown 📸
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aperture magazine
Thank you to Varun Nayar for the mention of my practice and the photo of this piece in his FotoFest Meeting Place 2024 review at Aperture Magazine. May, 2024.
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Koslov Larsen exhibited at Affordable Art Fair’s inaugural edition in Austin, TX. Koslov Larsen will present selections from its roster of gallery artists, each working with the photographic medium in fresh and innovative ways, including Lou Peralta.
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Curator Crista Dix selected "Kaleidoscopic Look Portrait #1" to be included in "Size Matters" Medium Photo Festival exhibition.
A portrait repeated thousands of times in a small piece.
Inspired by the work of Mexican artisans weavers who spend months making a reboso thread by thread.
At the Atheneaum Art Center April 2 - 27, 2024. San Diego, CA, US.
Photos: Annie Claflin
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Center for Fine Art Photography c4fap online event:
Wednesday, April 17 at 5 pm Mountain Time ( 4 pm Pacific Time and 7 pm Eastern Time)
Lou Peralta Artist Talk on Zoom 4/17
“Cutting, weaving, imbedding: Exploring three-dimensionality in Photography” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8kh_CVlTXg
Center for Fine Arts Photography C4fap. Fort Collins, Co, USA.
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Lou Peralta's Disassemble II, III and three new sculptural works from Disassemble V Series.
Pop-up exhibition at Koslov Larsen Gallery in Houston, Texas, US. (March 8 to April 13, 2024).
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Lou Peralta´s Disassemble #13 piece is exhibited as part of "Alone together" Critical Mass Top 50.
Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC).
Denver, USA. (Feb 23 - April 13).
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Geoffrey Koslov, founder of Foto Relevance speaking on contemporary photography at PhotoNOLA Festival, December, 2023.
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Lou Peralta featured in FRAMES Magazine. Interview by Diana Nicholette Jeon: https://readframes.com/the-female-gaze-lou-peralta-conjuring-photographic-alchemy-by-diana-nicholette-jeon/?fbclid=IwAR0mP2DAFK_C42ReyoAonq64_AFbfwt7NrLzUzhZlSnyZqCBqELrwGskRpA
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Lou Peralta has been invited to attend the CENTER's 22nd Review Santa Fe Photo Symposium, November 16-19,2023. https://www.reviewsantafelisting.org/lou-peralta
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Lou Peralta’s photo sculptures selected as a Critical Mass 2023 Top 50. https://www.photolucida.org/critical-mass/top-50/?cm_year=2022
Disassemble V Series: The feeling and perception suggested when portraying the person evoked as an energy structure.
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Lou Peralta's work included in Geoffrey C. Koslov essential commentary about Contemporary Photography. https://fotorelevance.com/blog/
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Lou Peralta Photolucida is a Critical Mass 2023 finalist with her Disassemble Series V photo sculptures.
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Lou Peralta is part of Photographers and Collage. Spring 2023 (March 20th - June 21st) at Thinking About Photography (online show).
https://www.thinkingaboutphotography.com/collage
Curated by: Amandine Nabarra
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Lou Peralta invited as a keynote speaker for Cameracraftsmen of America in Mexico City 2023. And International member elect by invitation. March, 2023.
Lou Peralta keynote speaker
Cameracraftsmen of America 2023
Mijal Guilbert, Joyce Wilson and Lou Peralta at the end of the keynote
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Lou Peralta was invited to participate in a prestigious panel by:
Mary Virginia Swanson Author-educator-advisor to photographic artists @maryvirginiaswanson
@mediumsandiego Medium Photo
@cpacphoto Colorado Photographic Arts Center
"The opportunity to introduce yourself and your work to curators, publishers, gallerists and other professionals in our field is rare.
Whether in person or online, preparing wisely for meetings with industry professionals is key.
Join the virtual seminar led by Mary Virginia Swanson with guest speakers Frances Jakubek and Gordon Stettinius. Guest artists Lou Peralta and Elizabeth Stone will share their portfolio review experiences with participants."
Wednesday January 25, 2023
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Bryn Larsen, Mariana Servitje, Libbie Masterson and Lou Peralta at the FotoFest Gala and Auction. September 29th, 2022.
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Peralta was present at her representative Gallery in Houston on October 1st, 2022.
Suzanne Zeller, Assistant Director, Lou Peralta and Libby Atkins, Gallery Assistant at Foto Relevance Gallery in Houston.
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Cover and interview in "Pasatiempo" cultural supplement of Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/digging-deep-lou-peralta-deconstructed/article_0dcf5768-f336-11ec-af28-c3a2c635e61c.html,
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Exhibition at @obscuragallerySF: Reception photos
Photo 1: Jennifer Schlessinger owner of @obscuragallerysf , myself, and @MaryVirginiaSwanson. Photo 2: Loree Gold and Joyce Wilson @joycewilson_artist . Photo 3: Maria Luisa Minjares and Nick Larsen. Photo 4: @juliacmartin and her wonderful parents. Photo 5: Remy and @eshachioccio & @jameystillingsphoto and Ciela. Photo 6: Dee Smith and girlfriend.
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Lou Peralta in discussion with Jennifer Schlesinger, the Owner of Obscura Gallery, about her exhibition, Deconstructed Portraits, a solo exhibition of her unique photo-based portraiture which deconstructs notions of Mexican identity. Event took place Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 10am MST.
The recording is available at: https://www.obscuragallery.net/video/
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On photograph magazine for Lou Peralta´s solo show at Obscura Gallery! https://photographmag.com/exhibitions/
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May 12, 2022 at Foto Relevance Gallery in Houston.
Disassemble #23 (large) "the golden lady", exhibited along with amazing Alia Ali´s works.
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Lou Peralta Exhibition at Obscura Gallery this Summer!
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Lou Peralta invited as a guest in Mary Virginia Swanson Workshop at Medium Photo on March 3, 2022.
Mary Virginia Swanson´s "Preparing for Portfolio Reviews Workshop". Medium Photo 2022.
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Lou Peralta´s Disassemble #47 sold on Houston Center of Photography. The piece was a donation by Foto Relevance Gallery in Houston and the artist. March, 2022.
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Lou Peralta invited by Fujifilm México, to talk about women in photography. March Women´s month celebration. 2022. "X-Photographers" Panel: @pilar_campos / Documentary photographer - Lou Peralta - @liliestradamx / Official photographer of the largest Entertainment Company in Mexico OCESA and journalist - @vita_flumen / Flâneuse Founder @observadoresurbanos
Peralta was invited to be part of femgrafía. August, 2021.
Femgrafía is an investigative and diffusion platform for emerging and established artists in Latinamerica and Spain. Created by @karlaGuerrero
https://www.femgrafia.com/post/659180166210256896/index-lou-peralta-lou-obtiene-su-licenciatura-en
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Analog Forever Magazine
The prestigious magazine published Disassemble #24-1, Disassemble Series III in their Edition 4 of Summer 2021.
https://www.analogforevermagazine.com
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Houston CityCentre exhibition until June 26, 2021.
Houston-based Midway, a privately owned, fully integrated real estate investment and development firm, is pleased to announce that CITYCENTRE has teamed up with the Weingarten Art Group to present the third annual Art @ CITYCENTRE, a rotating art program featuring fresh and engaging exhibitions of works from three Texas-based artists and galleries including Brad Tucker, Lou Peralta, and Ansen Seale. The artwork will be on display now through June 26 in lobby spaces across the dynamic shopping, dining, and entertainment community.
Whether visiting CITYCENTRE for an afternoon of shopping at its dynamic retailers or enjoying a date night with dinner and ‘Music in the Plaza’, guests are encouraged to stop by the lobby of CITYCENTRE 3 to browse the eye-catching artwork of Lou Peralta’s“Disassemble” exhibition. As a fourth-generation portrait photographer, Peralta’s work captures an energy and internal consciousness influenced by the diverse cultural heritage across Mexico. Through her photos, Peralta seeks to build appreciation for a new Mexican identity – to overcome stereotypes and preconceptions, in which her subjects are given a deeper essence of heritage and identity by deconstructing images and reconstructing them into new sculptural portraiture.
Art aficionados who want to avoid the lineups and pre-programmed time slots at museums are encouraged to stop by CITYCENTRE lobbies to view these limited-time art galleries during regular business hours from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. CITYCENTRE 3 is also open from 7-11 a.m. on Saturdays. Each of these unique pieces of artwork is available for purchase upon request.
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Public Art #HABITAT is 1st LEON SPRING FESTIVAL #festivalDePrimavera all through the main street ARCO DE LA CALZADA! Thank you Lily Baptista for your words and posing and sending these pictures. June 2021.
Thank you ©Lily Baptista for the pictures.
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Lou Peralta works to illustrate the 50th Anniversary issue of the CCH (Cience and Humanities school) of UNAM (Mexican National Autonomous University) Latitudes. Additionally Peralta was interviewed by Aurelio Malamurga. April, 2021.
Download the PDF (only in spanish): https://www.cch.unam.mx/colecciones/latitudes-5
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I had the honor to be included in the panel of FotobservatorioMx Forum to present my photography archive collection of Antique photo albums and my 30 years as a professional photographer. April 13, 2021.
I had the opportunity to have the comments and suggestions of renown specialist Sandra Peña.
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April, 2021. Lou Peralta represented by Obscura Gallery in Santa Fe, Nuevo Mexico, USA.
"Obscura Gallery was formed by Owner and Director Jennifer Schlesinger and represents the finest contributions to the history of photography both through contemporary and vintage works. A photography dealer, and artist herself, Jennifer brings to Obscura Gallery the experience of being the Director of Verve Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico for eleven years until they closed in 2017. Obscura Gallery, conceived in 2016, and named after the original Camera Obscura, was founded on Jennifer’s passion for photography which is deeply rooted in the history of the medium. The Gallery encourages the ways in which contemporary artists are using photographic progresses to create fine additions to the history of the medium which began nearly 200 years ago.".
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Video exhibitions of participating photographers work at medium photo {Virtual} Review 2021 https://youtu.be/R6RB2YFfIsc
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Lou Peralta featured in "The Culture Place" from February 17 to March 3, 2021 through Foto Relevance Gallery.
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Invited to share in the Artists Panel in the Professional Development Seminar (online): "Preparing for Online Portfolio Reviews" by Mary Virginia Swanson, organized by FOTOFEST. USA.
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Jan 13, 2021. Catalyst:interviews published an Interview made by Michael Kirchoff to Lou Peralta: https://www.catalystinterviews.com/interviews/2021/1/13/lou-peralta
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Exhibition in León, Guanajuato, México. Through March 21, 2021.
I am honored to be part of the Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato and Festival de Fotografía Internacional en León / FFIEL new exhibition #Habitat for the celebration of their 12th and 5th Anniversaries respectively.December, 5 through March 21, 2021.
(Daniel Arroniz, FFIEL Director appears in the last image).
In the cover of the invitation Disassemble #48, Disassemble Series.
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Lens Culture Art Photography Awards
Disassemble #23 from Disassemble Series III, is featured in the Art Photography Awards 2021 Competition Gallery.
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Video of conference: Lou Peralta - Fujifilm- #ExpoFFIEL ONLINE September 29th
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August-September, 2020
Mexican Press for the notes about my Comalli Series:
https://www.msn.com/es-mx/recetas/noticias/comalli-la-identidad-de-los-mexicanos-retratada-en-diversos-tipos-de-comal/ar-BB17VXUe?li=AAggv0g
https://webadictos.com/dia-mundial-de-la-camara-fotografica-mirrorless/
https://estadodeltiempo.mx/lou-peralta-presenta-la-serie-fotografica-comalli/
https://almomento.mx/lou-peralta-presenta-su-serie-fotografica-comalli/
https://headtopics.com/mx/lou-peralta
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Radio UNAM /Escaparate 961 interview on Comalli Series
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Milenio Newspaper from Mexico City for this interview (in spanish)
Agradezco mucho a Viridiana Contreras y al Periódico Milenio por esta entrevista: https://www.milenio.com/cultura/el-arte-del-retrato-revive-en-los-comalesVisita la Exposición Colectiva “Utopías Femeninas” en @PatriciaCondeGaleria de martes a viernes de 12 pm a 4 pm. Haz tu cita en info@patriciacondegaleria.com. Hasta septiembre 18.#patriciacondegalería #EXPOUtopías femeninas - #RosiCalderón, #JuliaCarrillo, #MargaradeHaene, #MargotKalach, #ClaudiaNierman, #LouPeralta #ArletteRamos.
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Fujifilm MX for this note about Comalli Series
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Collective exhibition "Utopías Femeninas" at Patricia Conde Gallery. August 12, 2020.
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art circle EUM HOUSTON
DELICIOUS
Virtual Tour of Bryn Larsen´s Home & Conversation with Artist Diane Gelman
Bryn Larsen shares her art collection including a piece from Lou Peralta Disassemble Series III.
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fotorelevance launches RestART collection
Today’s RESTART piece draws from a different body of Lou Peralta’s work, never before shown at the gallery. Peralta is known for her rethinking and restructuring of classical portraiture through the physical process of disassembling her images and weaving them back together in meaningful ways—“Portrait on the Rocks” takes a different approach to this subversion of classical portraiture, featuring not a face, but a cast of a face. The cast captures a moment in time, preserving it for eternity, much like a photograph does.
To view and purchase the work, follow the link in our bio to our online Square store or check out the collection on @Artsy.
Stay tuned for work from a new artist next week!
To view and purchase the work, visit our online Square store (https://foto-relevance-llc.square.site/) or check out the collection on Artsy (https://www.artsy.net/show/foto-relevance-restart-limited-edition-collection).
fotorelevance launches RestART collection
Our next artist in the RESTART collection is Lou Peralta (@lou_peralta_photo_based_artist) with work from Disassemble Series I. “Disassemble #11” is a striking woven portrait which seeks to deconstruct the traditional image, undo the illusion, and give portraiture a new meaning. To view and purchase the work, follow the link in our bio to our online Square store or check out the collection on @Artsy.
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Quarantine Blues - collective exhibition curated by Suzanne Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcb2Mj9AhPY
Foto Relevance is excited to announce our next show back in the gallery. Quarantine Blues was originally developed as an online exclusive show for buying art on a budget, and now the show has been expanded with a different set of works to fill the physical space of the gallery as we slowly adjust back to normalcy. The color blue is an omnipresent factor in our lives, filling the sky and the water with its seemingly infinite depth. We’ve brought the contemplative color indoors with selections from Brenda Biondo, Deborah Bay, Lou Peralta, Karen Navarro, Claire Rosen, Robert Langham III, Mark Chen, Torrie Groening, Lou Vest, Margeaux Walter, Paul-André Larocque, Joana Cardozo, and Julia McLaurin. View the works on Artsy here: https://www.artsy.net/show/foto-relevance-quarantine-blues-1
At the exhibition: Disassemble #24-1, 2018. Disassemble #24-2, 2018.
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Foto Relevance Gallery presents video of the making of Disassemble #23 from Disassemble Series III
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May, 2020. Foto Relevance is excited to announce the release of Comalli, a brand new series by gallery artist Lou Peralta.
Comalli blends photographs of comals—a type of clay griddle used, since pre-Hispanic times, in Mexican households to make fresh tortillas—with portraits of women and men from across Mexico. In keeping with the multimedia element of Peralta's practice, the composite prints are then embellished with materials found in local markets and nature, such as feathers, gold tissue paper, and jerga fabric.
For Peralta, Comalli honors how integral comals are to daily Mexican family life. In her statement, the artist writes:
I remember that at my grandmother’s house in Mexico City, they would bring the corn to the mill to make the masa, which was then used to pat out the tortillas by hand and then toast them in the comal over the stove. [...]
Most Mexicans prepare tortillas at home every day, and the comal where they are cooked becomes a witness to the family’s history. Usually this basic implement is used for years before throwing it out, so it’s not unusual to find one that has accompanied various generations. The more the comal is used, the better the tortillas taste. [...] Some people even say that the comal has its own soul.
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Doug Fogelson / Lou Peralta (Doug Fogelson photo goes first)
May, 2020. Visual-Conversation https://www.visual-conversation.com/ is a format for soundless dialog, a call and response between paired artists, often unknown to each other, inviting introspective pathways into their own works as fueled by the most recent image posted. We are listening visually before we “speak” in pictorial response.
Photographers participating thus far:
Doug Fogelson / Lou Peralta
Mariela Sancari / Alejandro Cartagena
Krista Svalbonas / Gesche Würfel
Aline Smithson / Lydia Panas
Nicolo Sertorio / Max de Esteban
Lou Peralta / Doug Fogelson
David Pace / Kirk Crippens
Kris Graves / Owen Conway
Jamey Stilings / Reuben Wu
https://www.visual-conversation.com/
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Facebook LIVE from the Consulate General of Mexico in Houston. Virtual tour from "Two woman conversing exhibition" in which Peralta participates with Disassemble Series. May 1st, 2020.
Artist Cecilia Villanueva: http://www.ceciliavillanueva.com
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"Unfiltered walk" at FotoFest Houston, portafolio review. Houston, Texas, USA, March, 2020.
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Peralta Presenting her new Comalli Series at Foto Relevance Gallery. March, 2020.
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These four pieces have just been framed and are available for sale at Foto Relevance Gallery. March 2020.
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Exhibition inaugurated by Consul Adolfo García at the Consulate General of Mexico in Houston. Cecilia Villanueva and Lou Peralta on the right side. March 4, 2020.
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A talk about Lou Peralta´s work was given in the Women Photographers 2nd Colloquium in Mexico City by Mónica Ayala.
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"Unfiltered walk" at FotoFest Meeting Place Paris, portafolio review. Paris, France. Nov, 2019.
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Expo "Feminism for everyone". Red de la Imagen FOTOMÉXICO, Mexico City, 2019.
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Cover and interview in the October edition of PAREDRO magazine.
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Thank you "Nodo 9" fo this note
(in spanish): https://nodonueve.com/2019/09/09/lou-peralta-debuta-en-foto-relevance-con-la-exposicion-despiece/
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"Thank you to the Houston Chronicle for featuring Lou Peralta (@lou_peralta_visual_artist)’s “Disassemble #48.” This work is an archival pigment print textured with cinnamon sticks & strips of wood that the artist has hand-woven in. Come see it in the gallery through November 8th." Foto Relevance Gallery post on Instagram, 2019.
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Kinselmanart KAC comment about Foto Relevance Gallery exhibition in Instagram
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"NODE Center for curatorial studies selected a picture to advertise the course "Programa de profesionalización del artista emergente". 2019.
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DISASSEMBLE: MEXICO CITY’S LOU PERALTA TO DEBUT AT FOTO RELEVANCE
HOUSTON (AUG 16, 2019) — Foto Relevance is thrilled to present Lou Peralta for Disassemble, marking the Mexico City-based artist’s first ever solo exhibition in the United States. Featuring over thirty of Peralta’s constructed, photo-based portraits.
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"We are writing to you to let you know your entry to Emerging Talent Awards 2017 (shown below) was among the top-rated entries we received!" LensCulture.
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NODE Center for curatorial studies selected a picture to advertise the course "Creative process of author photography. 2019.
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Circe magazine with the collaboration of Femgrafía published an interview and the "Orujos" Series of Lou Perlata. https://leecirce.com/orujos-lou-peralta/
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"We are writing to you to let you know your entry to Street Photography Awards 2018 (shown below) was among the top-rated entries we received!" LensCulture.
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"We just completed a review of all portrait photography submitted to LensCulture competitions and wanted to let you know your entry to the Portrait Awards 2017 was among the top-rated portrait entries we´ve seen. Congratulations!" LensCulture
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Foto Relevance Gallery publishes Lou Peralta´s works for sale in Artsy
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Foto Relevance Gallery in the United States, announce the representation of Lou Peralta http://www.fotorelevance.com
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Photographs for the play "Alquimia y transmutación" by Arturo Morell. XLVI Festival Cervantino, 2018
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Photograph selected for the "The Family of No Man" exhibition at Arles Festival 2018.
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LensCulture selected one of my photos to be featured in the "Art Photography Awards 2018". (Photo on the center)
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5 page publication of my Dissasemble Series in FotoZoom Magazine in their October, 2017 Anniversary Issue.
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LensCulture selecting one of my photos to be featured in the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017 Competition Gallery.
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"Her photographs are the product of a creative process in which the author constructs and deconstructs a portrait to find its true value."
Génesis González Pereira
Review from "El Ático" (July 12, 2017)
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Review in the Virtual gallery "El Ático":
http://desdelatico.tumblr.com/post/162905360232/desconstrucción-de-un-retrato-cómo-se-refleja-el
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Lou Peralta was Selected in "Women photographers in Latin America" in Visor Magazine, 2017.
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Fujifilm X interview in spanish: https://www.tiendafujifilm.com.mx/blogs/news/detras-de-los-x-photographers-lou-peralta-1
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Mention in "Fujifilm MX" (Facebook page).