Alberto Ortega Trejo

Alberto Ortega Trejo's (he/him) work uses architecture, drawing, sculpture, writing, and video to explore histories of indigeneity in architectural modernity, the production of extreme environments, the spatial politics of the colonial encounters in North America, and the architectures of social experiments. He has been an IDEAS Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and a grantee of Jumex Foundation for Contemporary Art, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and DCASE, among others. His work has been shown at La Clínica, Prairie, DePaul Art Museum, BienalSur, Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Uri-Eichen Gallery, SpaceP11, and Centro de Arte y Filosofía. He has been a guest speaker for institutions and organizations like DocTalks x MoMA for the Emilio Ambasz Institute, the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, Smart Museum of Art, Materia Abierta, UPenn, MAS Context, and CENTRO. He curated the critically acclaimed exhibition The Last of Animal Builders at Mies van de Rohe's Edith Farnsworth House. He manages the public programs of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago and is an independent spatial designer.

Rematch Chicago, IDEAS Fellow at the Society of Architectural Historians, Andrew W. Mellon Research Grant, Jumex Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant.

"En algún lado y en ninguno," Sun Ra, Poemas, with Marian Castillo Deball and Tania Islas Weinstein, Bom Dia Books, 2019; Lector Primitivo, RRD & Inga Books, 2024; "Defenseless Breeders, an Introduction to the unpublished writings of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy,"Volume 66: The Guide to Designing with Animals, Plants and Other Critters, Archis.

One of the qualities of nocturnal beings is that they speak words of truth, Prairie (2024); The Last of Animal Builders, Edith Farnsworth House (2023); Gentle Content, Rhona Hoffman Gallery (2022).