Miguel Monroy is an artist from Mexico City whose critical and conceptual practice explores the deconstruction of everyday objects and systems to reveal the ideologies that sustain them. Through media such as video, photography, sculpture, and symbolic interventions in public space, his work investigates how power operates in the mundane through seemingly neutral structures. He is particularly interested in paradox as an analytical tool, addressing themes such as surveillance, the attention economy, and crisis as an ideological stage.
Monroy holds an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University (2020). He also earned a diploma in Photography and New Media from the Centro de la Imagen (2001) and a BFA in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
His work has been exhibited in cultural venues across Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, the United States, Belgium, and other countries. His publications include Why “all together” is written separatedly and “separatedly” all together (2023) and Transported Transport (2012). In 2016, he presented Art Heist at ZonaMACO Sur, and in 2018, he was awarded the Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Fellowship by the San Francisco Foundation.
He has participated in artist residencies in Switzerland (2006), Quebec (2012), Los Cabos (2012) and Oaxaca (2015), and has taught contemporary art workshops in Mérida, Puebla, Mexico City, and California. Since 2015, he has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (FONCA). Alongside his artistic practice, Monroy has worked as an educator for over fifteen years, fostering in his students a critical approach that encourages reimagining how we live in the world.