BIO
Lou Peralta
BIO
Lou Peralta is a visual artist and contemporary photographer based in Mexico City. She belongs to the fourth generation of a family dedicated to portrait photography — a legacy that continues to nourish her ongoing exploration of the genre. Her practice expands the limits of the two-dimensional photographic image, reimagining portraiture as a sculptural and spatial experience.
With a background in editorial photography, Peralta transitioned over the last decade into a full-time artistic practice. Her recent work intertwines pre-Hispanic influences with contemporary culture and often materializes in hand-built structures made of diverse materials —such as paper, fabric, agave fiber, or copper wire— integrating photographic processes with physical gestures and artisanal methods.
Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, including recent presentations in León, Guanajuato; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas.
She is currently developing a series that fuses contemporary portraiture with the architectural concepts of Luis Barragán. Peralta is a Fujifilm brand ambassador through the X-Photographers program and an international member of Cameracraftsmen of America. Her recent recognitions include being selected for the Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 (2023) and her participation in the22nd Santa Fe Photography Symposium in New Mexico, USA.
Artist Statement
I am a fourth-generation artist from a family devoted to photographic portraiture—a legacy that laid the foundation for my artistic practice. Since 2017, I have undertaken a full-time exploration of portraiture, expanding its boundaries and questioning its traditional forms.
My work engages in a dialogue between ancestral memory and contemporary culture, merging pre-Hispanic influences with present-day domestic references. Moving beyond representation, I reimagine photography as a sculptural, spatial, and material experience. Through mixed-media processes, I transform the flat surface into a three-dimensional encounter, embedding objects and textures that evoke both intimate and collective histories.
In this expanded approach to portraiture, I investigate how time, space, and matter shape identity within the image. My work draws from architecture and quantum theory to explore perception and fragmentation—troubling the idea of permanence, and inviting the viewer into a shifting field where the portrait is not fixed, but alive within the space it inhabits.
CV
Lou Peralta / visual artist and contemporary photographer
Born in 1964 in Mexico. Lives and works in Mexico City.
Individual exhibitions
2024 Disassemble Pop-up Exhibition. Koslov Larsen Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA.
2023 "Comalli": Family history witness. FemgrafIa Gallery. Hispanoamerica.
2022 "Deconstructed portraits". Obscura Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
2019 "Disassemble Series". Koslov Larsen Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA.
1998 Portraits. World of editorial photography with Canon. Mexico City, Mexico.
1997 "When the future catches up with us". Kodak cultural program. Guadalajara, Mexico.
1990 "Observing her observe". Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros. Mexico City, Mexico.
Group shows
Ongoing: 2025 MUBO Museum. March 27 to May 18, 2025. México City, México.
2025 "Liberando el archivo". Femgrafía. CENART Centro Nacional de las Artes. México City, México.
2024 "The Golden Lady" Disassemble #23. Kips Bay Decorator Show House. Dallas, Texas.
2024 "Resonancias femeninas". Femgrafía Gallery. FotoSeptiembre Festival from Centro de la Imagen Museum. Mexico City. México.
2024 Affordable Art Fair Austin. Austin, Texas, USA.
2024 "Size Matters Juried Exhibition". Medium Photo, San Diego, California, USA.
2024 "Alone together" Critical Mass Top 50. Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC). Denver, USA.
2023 "Photographers and collage". Spring 2023. Thinking About Photography, USA.
2022 Houston Center of Photography, Auction 2022 exhibition. Houston, Texas, USA.
2021 3rd annual Art@CityCentreHou. Weingarten Group +Koslov Larsen Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA.
2021 "Habitat". 1st León Spring Festival Public Art. Guanajuato, Mexico.
2020 "Habitat". Guanajuato Museum of Art and History + FFiel. Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
2020 "Visual Conversations" https://www.visual-conversation.com/conversations-2020/lou-doug
2020 "Utopias femeninas". Patricia Conde Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
2020 "Restart: Limited Edition Collection". Koslov Larsen Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA.
2020 "Quarantine Blues". Koslov Larsen / former Foto Relevance Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA.
2020 "A Conversation between Women: Cecilia Villanueva /Lou Peralta". Consulate of Mexico. Houston, Texas, USA.
2019 "Feminism for all". Red from the Imagen FOTOMÉXICO. Gallery Un teatro. Mexico City, Mexico.
2018 "The Family of No Man". Arles Festival. Arles, France.
2017 Fujifilm GFX camera premiere. Indianilla Station. Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 "100 years of photographic tradition in Mexico". Tecnológico de Monterrey. Mexico City, Mexico.
1995 "Si muero lejos de aquí". Centro de la Imagen Museum. Mexico City, Mexico.
1995 "San Angelinos de corazón". Plaza Loreto. Mexico.
Education and formation
1999-2003 Director of Photography for Lifestyle Publications.
1992 Undergraduate degree in Graphic Design, with a specialization in Editorial Design, from the Iberoamericana University; honorary prize for the final dissertation. Mexico City.
1986-2017 Shots of Mexico's most renowned intellectuals, artists, entrepreneurs and politicians. Participated in the publication of various books and encyclopedias. Photographs published in several magazines.
2013 to 2018 Photographed the National Opera in the Bellas Artes Opera Theater in Mexico.
1984-1987 FotoForum magazine for photographers. Artistic Director/Associate.
Teaching and conferences
2025 Lou Peralta's artistic practice, "Tres de tres" Premio Felix Candela. Carrillo Gil Museum. México City, México.
2024 "The Artistic Mark: How to Develop Your Vision in the Age of AI." Fujifilm X Day. Morelos, Mexico.
2024 Invitation to contribute to the book “Both Sides of the Table: Photography Portfolio Reviews Do’s & Don’ts” by Debe Arlook and Erick Kunsman. USA.
2024 Artist Talk on Zoom 4/17 “Cutting, weaving, imbedding: Exploring three-dimensionality in Photography”. Center for Fine Arts Photography, C4fap. Fort Collins, Co, USA.
2023 Keynote speaker at the Cameracraftsmen of America International Convention. Mexico.
2023 Invited to Medium Photo and Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC)'s 'Preparing for Portfolio Reviews Workshop' with Mary Virginia Swanson, USA.
2022 Workshop "From professional photographer to visual artist" in the Fujifilm X Day. Presented by Fujifilm. Mexico.
2022 Invited to the Medium Photo “Preparing for Portfolio Reviews” workshop with Mary Virginia Swanson, USA.
2021 Fujifilm Mexico Conference "From a professional photographer to a visual artist". Fujifilm Day in Mexico.
2021 FotobservatorioMx. Forum transmitted by the Soumaya museum. Mexico.
2021 Artist Panel in Professional Development Seminar: “Preparing for Online Portfolio Reviews”, organized by FotoFest, Houston, USA.
2020 Fujifilm Mexico Conference on the theme "Portrait" at FFIEL (Leon International Festival of Photography). Mexico.
2016 Speaker "Opera photography" sponsored by Fujifilm, World Trade Center. Mexico.
2014 Speaker "Mirrorless technology" sponsored by Fujifilm, World Trade Center. Mexico.
1998 Conference "The world of editorial photography with Canon" sponsored by Canon. Mexico.
1997 Kodak Professional Cultural Program "When the Future Catches Up", sponsored by Kodak. Guadalajara. Mexico.
1995 Conference “100 years of photographic tradition in Mexico” McCormick Place, Chicago, Annual Convention of the PP of A (Professional Photographers of America). USA.
1994-1996 Courses at the Iberoamericana University on photography, editorial design and advanced graphic arts. Mexico City.
Publications and interviews
2025 Revista Cuartoscuro interview to Lou Peralta by Gustavo Alberto. Mexico.
2024 Both Sides of the Table, book by Debe Arlook and Eric Kunsman. Contributor.
2023 Femgrafía interview: "Lou Peralta: exploring the multidimensions of photography"
2023 FRAMES magazine interview by Diana Nicholette Jeon titled "Conjuring Photographic Alchemy".
2023 Lenscratch magazine, interviewed by artist Elizabeth Stone titled “Photography into sculpture: Lou Peralta”.
2022 Cover story of "Pasatiempo", cultural supplement of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, NM, United States. By T.D. Mobley-Martinez, Editor-in-Chief.
2022 Interview with Obscura Gallery owner Jennifer Schlesinger. USA.
2022 Interview by Camila Álvarez "Mis fotos son mi telar" / "My photos are my loom".
2022 Interview by Ramón Fregoso, sponsored by Fotomecánica. Mexico.
2021 Interview by 50th anniversary edition of the journal Latitudes Science and Humanities School (CCH) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Titled: “We are all essentially the same: a spark of light.”
2021 Interview by Michael Kirchoff. Catalyst Magazine: interviews.
2017 Anniversary edition of Fotozoom magazine. Mexico.
2016 X-Photographers book. Fujifilm International.
2015 Zoom Magazine, Italy. Number 243.
2015 X-Photographers book. Fujifilm International.
2014-2018 Portfolio on Fujifilm international webpage.
Associations
2023 Cameracraftsmen of America international member.
Awards
2023 Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 Top 50.
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Contact:
Lou Peralta
email: info@louperalta.art
https://www.louperalta.art
Mexico City
Represented by KOSLOV LARSEN Gallery in Houston, Texas, US.
koslovlarsen.gallery
Represented by OBSCURA GALLERY, LLC in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US.
https://www.obscuragallery.net
Lou Peralta´s work is available in Mexico City through PATRICIA CONDE GALERÍA.
https://pcg.photo/es/home
Lou Peralta Studio.
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfSls1fymM6D12EF_nG2uQ
