Alinka Echeverría Mexico, b. 1981

For the past ten years, her work has been widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions at Light Work, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Preus Museum, Norway’s National Museum of Photography, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, and The California Museum of Photography at UCR. In 2020, she won the MAST Foundation Prize for her work Apparent Femininity In 2017, she was a finalist for the Prix Elysée and was selected for FOAM Museum's Talent award for Nicephora, a research project about the representation of women that she started during BMW's Art & Culture Residency at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in 2015. In 2012, she was voted International Photographer of the Year by the Lucie Awards for Becoming South Sudan , and in 2011 was awarded the HSBC Prize for Photography for The Road to Tepeyac.

Her work is part of several public and institutional collections, including The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, BMW Art & Culture, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Commissions include the Swiss Foundation for Photography and BBC Four, for whom she presented a three part series: The Art That Made Mexico.