Alejandro “Luperca” Morales (Ciudad Juárez, México, 1990) is a graduate of Theory and Criticism of Art at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (2013).
As an artist, he has participated in collective exhibitions such as Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as it's kept (New York, 2022); Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, (London, 2021); Panoramic Festival (Barcelona, 2018); Califas: Art of the United States-Mexico Border. Richmond Art Center, (California, 2018); Mexico // The future is not written (Benetton Foundation Collection, 2015); XIX and XX Biennial of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia 2014 - 2016); The Disasters of War, V Festival A-part (France, 2014); Belo Horizonte International Photo Festival (Brazil, 2013); Third Border Biennial Juárez – El Paso (Mexico-USA, 2013), among others. He was Artist-in-Residence for the Youth Insights Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2022).
In 2022, he presented his first solo exhibition Archivo Juárez in Getxophoto (Spain), a winning project in the PH Museum Photography Grant 2022. His project “El retrato de tu ausencia” was shortlisted in LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD, ARLES 2022.
His curatorial projects include Index: Archiving the edges of Violence, Rubin Center (2014); Horror Pleni, EAC (Uruguay, 2015), III Salón ACME (CDMX, 2015), Fallas de Origen, Ciudad Juárez Art Museum (2016), Detritos, Sonora Art Museum (2016) and Francis Alys, City Projects Juarez, ASU Museum of Art (2017).
He was International Curator of the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia (2015). He founded Proyectos Impala, an exhibition space and mobile library in Ciudad Juárez (2016-2018). He is part of the Independent Curators International network. He is currently Curator at the University of Monterrey.