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Ingrid Levya, Mexican Shoppers (detail 1), 2019
12020-03-26T20:38:58+00:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a689349081C-print mounted on sintra 8"x10" Photograph by Marcus Herseplain2020-03-26T20:38:58+00:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490
12020-03-26T20:38:55+00:00Ingrid Leyva1plain2020-03-26T20:38:55+00:00Ingrid Leyva, 1987, is a transborder artist who grew up between Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas. She has been developing her ability for portraiture in order to explore her own identity and the one of the world around her. In the present exhibition, she is showing part of a collective portrait of the Mexican Shoppers in their way back to Mexico after shopping in the United States, an ongoing project that has been working in an independent way since 2017.
Her work has been included at the Transboder Biennial, the Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio, the Barrio Art Space PS 109 in New York City, the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin and the Alianza Francesa in Mexico City. She was also part of the editorial team at Zone Zero Labs photo magazine from Fundacion Pedro Meyer and her work has been at public conversations such Fast Forward from @womeninphoto funded by Maria Kapajeva. Also, she has appeared on different magazines such as the Texas Observer, Melí Meló, Remezcla, Vice Mexico, Apocrypha Magazine and in the books Migracion 2.0 edited by Francisco Mata Rosas and Vision del Norte edited by Adél Koleszár and Erin Lee. One of her portraits is part of the permanent collection at the El Paso Museum of Art and she is exited to participate as one of the 5 scholarship recipients at the Northern Exposure program to have a portfolio review at the Medium Festival of Photography next October.