Elena Tejada-Herrera
Bio/CV
Available works
Elena Tejada-Herrera
Elena Tejada-Herrera
Elena Tejada-Herrera is a transdisciplinary artist who seeks to facilitate cultural exchanges and empowers individuals with her work. She embraces hybrid forms of art while also cultivating a passion for drawing. She creates environments for the realization of creative collective aesthetic experiences. For this she makes available the means of different art disciplines and incorporates other non artistic practices into the artwork as well.
The resuting objects to communicate these creative processes are photographs, installations, paintings, drawings, videos and Internet postings. In Peru, she introduced irruptive risky performances to protest against Fujimori’s dictatorship. Her works have been included in “Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia” by Miguel López, among many other publications. In 2018 Proyecto AMIL published the book Videos from this Woman edited by Florencia Portocarrero with texts by Miguel López and others. The book was a comprehensive study with a focus on Elena’s video performances.
The resuting objects to communicate these creative processes are photographs, installations, paintings, drawings, videos and Internet postings. In Peru, she introduced irruptive risky performances to protest against Fujimori’s dictatorship. Her works have been included in “Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia” by Miguel López, among many other publications. In 2018 Proyecto AMIL published the book Videos from this Woman edited by Florencia Portocarrero with texts by Miguel López and others. The book was a comprehensive study with a focus on Elena’s video performances.
Bio/CV
Elena Tejada-Herrera
ElenaTejada-Herrera was born in Lima, where she currently lives and works. She holds a BFA from the Universidad Católica del Peru and two MFAs; from Virginia Commonwealth University (granted full scholarship) and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (full merit scholarship).
Her most recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Museo Centro de Arte de Vanguardia Neomudejarin Madrid (2019), Proyecto AMIL in Lima (2016); KneePits in Miami (2016). She was recently part of group exhibitions at the Ulay Foundation in Slovenia, Hamburger Banhofthe Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College and at the Americas Society Gallery in NewYork, both curated by Gabriela Rangel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Asad Raza (2018 – 2019); El Instante Fundacion in Madrid (2019), among others. In 2019 Elena presented The Girls Learn to Fight a solo project at the Focus seccion at Frieze art fair.
Her work has recently been acquired by the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI.
Elena has been organizing self defense training workshops for trans-women, cis-women and girls. Currently she is creating videos in collaboration with elderly women, and organizing long distance virtual communication with them.
Her most recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Museo Centro de Arte de Vanguardia Neomudejarin Madrid (2019), Proyecto AMIL in Lima (2016); KneePits in Miami (2016). She was recently part of group exhibitions at the Ulay Foundation in Slovenia, Hamburger Banhofthe Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College and at the Americas Society Gallery in NewYork, both curated by Gabriela Rangel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Asad Raza (2018 – 2019); El Instante Fundacion in Madrid (2019), among others. In 2019 Elena presented The Girls Learn to Fight a solo project at the Focus seccion at Frieze art fair.
Her work has recently been acquired by the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI.
Elena has been organizing self defense training workshops for trans-women, cis-women and girls. Currently she is creating videos in collaboration with elderly women, and organizing long distance virtual communication with them.
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 is a transdisciplinary artist who seeks to facilitate cultural exchanges and empowers individuals with her work. She embraces hybrid forms of art while also cultivating a passion for drawing. She creates environments for the realization of creative collective aesthetic experiences. For this she makes available the means of different art disciplines and incorporates other non artistic practices into the artwork as well.
The resuting objects to communicate these creative processes are photographs, installations, paintings, drawings, videos and Internet postings. In Peru, she introduced irruptive risky performances to protest against Fujimori’s dictatorship. Her works have been included in “Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia” by Miguel López, among many other publications. In 2018 Proyecto AMIL published the book Videos from this Woman edited by Florencia Portocarrero with texts by Miguel López and others. The book was a comprehensive study with a focus on Elena’s video performances.
The resuting objects to communicate these creative processes are photographs, installations, paintings, drawings, videos and Internet postings. In Peru, she introduced irruptive risky performances to protest against Fujimori’s dictatorship. Her works have been included in “Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia” by Miguel López, among many other publications. In 2018 Proyecto AMIL published the book Videos from this Woman edited by Florencia Portocarrero with texts by Miguel López and others. The book was a comprehensive study with a focus on Elena’s video performances.
Elena Tejada-Herrera
ElenaTejada-Herrera was born in Lima, where she currently lives and works. She holds a BFA from the Universidad Católica del Peru and two MFAs; from Virginia Commonwealth University (granted full scholarship) and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (full merit scholarship).
Her most recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Museo Centro de Arte de Vanguardia Neomudejarin Madrid (2019), Proyecto AMIL in Lima (2016); KneePits in Miami (2016). She was recently part of group exhibitions at the Ulay Foundation in Slovenia, Hamburger Banhofthe Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College and at the Americas Society Gallery in NewYork, both curated by Gabriela Rangel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Asad Raza (2018 – 2019); El Instante Fundacion in Madrid (2019), among others. In 2019 Elena presented The Girls Learn to Fight a solo project at the Focus seccion at Frieze art fair.
Her work has recently been acquired by the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI.
Elena has been organizing self defense training workshops for trans-women, cis-women and girls. Currently she is creating videos in collaboration with elderly women, and organizing long distance virtual communication with them.
Her most recent solo exhibitions were presented at the Museo Centro de Arte de Vanguardia Neomudejarin Madrid (2019), Proyecto AMIL in Lima (2016); KneePits in Miami (2016). She was recently part of group exhibitions at the Ulay Foundation in Slovenia, Hamburger Banhofthe Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College and at the Americas Society Gallery in NewYork, both curated by Gabriela Rangel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Asad Raza (2018 – 2019); El Instante Fundacion in Madrid (2019), among others. In 2019 Elena presented The Girls Learn to Fight a solo project at the Focus seccion at Frieze art fair.
Her work has recently been acquired by the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI.
Elena has been organizing self defense training workshops for trans-women, cis-women and girls. Currently she is creating videos in collaboration with elderly women, and organizing long distance virtual communication with them.
“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