Elena Tejada-Herrera
Bio/CV
Available works
Elena Tejada-Herrera
Elena Tejada-Herrera
Elena Tejada-Herrera was born in Lima, where she currently lives and works. She is a transdisciplinary and feminist artist. Since 2019, she has been organising self-defence workshops for women in all their diversity and dissidence. Elena’s work has an intersectional theme, activating alternative economies and respectful relationships with nature. Many of her pieces challenge notions of political correctness, exploring concepts such as civil disobedience in a celebratory manner and creating spaces for the exercise of alternative ways of existing, relating, and occupying spaces. Her work moves away from disciplinary definitions. Elena’s work is produced and exhibited in different real and virtual spaces. She creates hybrid forms, incorporating new media and participatory works where the audience becomes a creative collaborator. Her work incorporates social practice, net art, multimedia video installations, drawings, soft sculptures, paintings, landscape interventions, kinetic and interactive pieces, among other forms.
Bio/CV
Elena Tejada-Herrera
She has exhibited her work at the Scottsdale Museum in Arizona, 2025, at the 2024 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, 2025 and 2023, at MALI, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama, and at ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024. In 2022-2023, she participated in the Empowerment exhibition on art and feminism at the Wolfsburg Art Museum in Germany. She has presented solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Lima and in different countries on five continents. In 2021-2022, she exhibited at the Ulay Foundation and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland. In 2021, she also participated in various online exhibitions at the Sharjah Foundation and in Reactivando Videografías, also exhibited in Italy. In 2020, she participated with a video installation in the Berlin Biennale and presented a solo video project at the Spanish Cultural Centre in Lima. In October 2019, she was selected to present an exhibition in the Focus section of the Frieze art fair in London. In 2018, Proyecto AMIL published the book Videos de Esta Mujer, cataloguing the exhibition of the same name.
She won first place in the Pasaporte para un artista competition. With 15 solo exhibitions in Peru, France, and Spain, she received scholarships to attend residencies at La Cite Internationale Des Arts, Vermont Studio Centre, Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Centro Fundación Telefónica Lima, and Urra-Argentina. Some of the awards she has received include the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, USA, and a Grand Prix at the Parnu XIII International Film & Video Festival ‘Best AV action piece’ Estonia, among others.
She won first place in the Pasaporte para un artista competition. With 15 solo exhibitions in Peru, France, and Spain, she received scholarships to attend residencies at La Cite Internationale Des Arts, Vermont Studio Centre, Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Centro Fundación Telefónica Lima, and Urra-Argentina. Some of the awards she has received include the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, USA, and a Grand Prix at the Parnu XIII International Film & Video Festival ‘Best AV action piece’ Estonia, among others.
Available works
“They sing, They dance, They fight”, 2020
Edition 2/3 / Duration: 16 minutes
3 channel video installation
From the series “Portraits as a minimalist painting”, 2018
150 x 100 cm. Edition of 5 + 2AP
Inkjet on Photorag satin paper
“Nouveau Bourgeois Latin American Immigrant Who Learned Shopping and Has Good Taste”, 2005
Duration: 04min 17s / Edition 2/5 + 2AP
One channel video
“Bomba And The Bataclana In The Belly Dance”, 1994
Duration: 10min 08s // Edition 3/5 + 2 AP
One channel video
Elena Tejada-Herrera
Elena Tejada-Herrera was born in Lima, where she currently lives and works. She is a transdisciplinary and feminist artist. Since 2019, she has been organising self-defence workshops for women in all their diversity and dissidence. Elena’s work has an intersectional theme, activating alternative economies and respectful relationships with nature. Many of her pieces challenge notions of political correctness, exploring concepts such as civil disobedience in a celebratory manner and creating spaces for the exercise of alternative ways of existing, relating, and occupying spaces. Her work moves away from disciplinary definitions. Elena’s work is produced and exhibited in different real and virtual spaces. She creates hybrid forms, incorporating new media and participatory works where the audience becomes a creative collaborator. Her work incorporates social practice, net art, multimedia video installations, drawings, soft sculptures, paintings, landscape interventions, kinetic and interactive pieces, among other forms.
Elena Tejada-Herrera
She has exhibited her work at the Scottsdale Museum in Arizona, 2025, at the 2024 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, 2025 and 2023, at MALI, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama, and at ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024. In 2022-2023, she participated in the Empowerment exhibition on art and feminism at the Wolfsburg Art Museum in Germany. She has presented solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Lima and in different countries on five continents. In 2021-2022, she exhibited at the Ulay Foundation and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland. In 2021, she also participated in various online exhibitions at the Sharjah Foundation and in Reactivando Videografías, also exhibited in Italy. In 2020, she participated with a video installation in the Berlin Biennale and presented a solo video project at the Spanish Cultural Centre in Lima. In October 2019, she was selected to present an exhibition in the Focus section of the Frieze art fair in London. In 2018, Proyecto AMIL published the book Videos de Esta Mujer, cataloguing the exhibition of the same name.
She won first place in the Pasaporte para un artista competition. With 15 solo exhibitions in Peru, France, and Spain, she received scholarships to attend residencies at La Cite Internationale Des Arts, Vermont Studio Centre, Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Centro Fundación Telefónica Lima, and Urra-Argentina. Some of the awards she has received include the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, USA, and a Grand Prix at the Parnu XIII International Film & Video Festival ‘Best AV action piece’ Estonia, among others.
She won first place in the Pasaporte para un artista competition. With 15 solo exhibitions in Peru, France, and Spain, she received scholarships to attend residencies at La Cite Internationale Des Arts, Vermont Studio Centre, Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Centro Fundación Telefónica Lima, and Urra-Argentina. Some of the awards she has received include the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, USA, and a Grand Prix at the Parnu XIII International Film & Video Festival ‘Best AV action piece’ Estonia, among others.
“They sing, They dance, They fight”, 2020
Edition 2/3 / Duration: 16 minutes
3 channel video installation
From the series “Portraits as a minimalist painting”, 2018
150 x 100 cm. Edition of 5 + 2AP
Inkjet on Photorag satin paper
“Nouveau Bourgeois Latin American Immigrant Who Learned Shopping and Has Good Taste”, 2005
Duration: 04min 17s / Edition 2/5 + 2AP
One channel video