About Minerva Cuevas

Minerva Cuevas is a Mexican-born multimedia artist whose practice involves installation, video, muralism, sculpture, and public intervention. Her work investigates how politics and economics permeate the social sphere. She uses objects and images of everyday consumption to encourage notions of exploitation, exchange, and social inequality that is inherent to the capitalist-driven world.

Cuevas has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2013); Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico (2012); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2012); and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010). She has participated in multiple biennales including Prospect.4 New Orleans (2017); Liverpool Biennial (2010); 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2010); and the 6th Mercosul Biennial (2007). Her writings have been published in no room to play (2019), and Donald Donald McRonald (2012).

Cuevas studied Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (1997). She is the founder of Mejor Vida Corp. (1998) and the International Understanding Foundation (2016). She currently lives and work in Mexico City.