Solo Exhibitions

2011

Dr Lakra, The Drawing Center, New York

2010

Dr Lakra, ICA Boston

2009

Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry

Dr Lakra, kurimanzutto

2006

Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry

2005

Los Dos Amigos, Dr Lakra & Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico

2003  

Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry, London

1998

Dr Lakra, Juárez 65, Mexico City, Mexico

1993

Dr Lakra, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin

1991

Dr Lakra, Café Primo, Berlin

1990

Dr Lakra, Galería Caracas, Berlin

1989

Dr Lakra, Galería El Juglar, Mexico City, Mexico

Group Exhibitions

2011

Poetry and Politics – Watercolours and Animations, The Nordic Watercolour Museum/nordiska akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden

2009

2^nd Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, Puerto Rico

Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry

2008

Inaugural Exhibition, kurimanzutto, Mexico City

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery

Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, The Alameda National Center, San Antonio, USA

2007

Goth: Reality of The Departed World, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan

La Planta, Arte Contemporaneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico

Feral Kingdom, CCA Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow

Cuestión Xeracional/ Generational Issue, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Mad Love, Museum of ModernArt, Copenhagen

Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary art, Chicago

Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2006

Spank The Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

I’m Sorry, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid

I Love My Country but I Think We Should Start Seeing Other People, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

2005

Words: The formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Mexico 70, Casa del Lago, Mexico City

The Urban Edge Show, Milan

Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

2004

Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage & Drawing (with Sebastian Bremer, Matt Bryans, Amie Dicke, Wangechi Mutu, Jochum Nordström, Steven Shearer, Godfried Donkor and Nicole Wermers), Tate Modern, London

Equation du Solelil Noir, Peinture Contemporaine du Mexique (curated by Guillermo Santamaria), Instituto de México à Paris, Paris

Deliver Us from Evil, (with Honore Daumier, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Robert Crumb, Keegan McHargue) Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2003

Elephant Juice, Kurimanzutto, Mexico

2000

Galerie kurimanzutto @ Galerie Chantel Crousel, Paris

Stolen Bike, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

1999

Art and Idea, Mexico City

The Light of Jesus, The Drawing Collective, Los Angeles

1998

Camuñas Family, Purgatorio 2, Valencia, Spain

Festimad, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

1996

Festimad, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

La Feria del Rebelde, La Panadería, Mexico City

No Soy Fotógrafo, La Panadería, Mexico City

1995

Pierced Hearts and True Love; a Century of Drawings for Tattoos,

The Drawing Centre, New York

1994

Mutant Messenger, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago

Grap a Bag, Museum of Art Chicago

1993

Auslanders in Berlin, Kunsthaus Tachesles, Berlin

1991

Aire Fresco en el Verano del Amor, Divisiónarte, Mexico City

1990

Ya, Juventud, Ya, La Quiñonera, Mexico City

Euritmia en el Tenderero, Puente de Piedra 19, Mexico City

Selected Press

Dr Lakra Roberta Smith, New York Times (NYTimes.com), 11-17 April 2010

On pins and needles defending artistic expression, Carol Rose, The Boston Globe (Boston.com), 8 April 2010

Dr Lakra has a Tattoo of a Demon Peeing on Jesus Face, Bernardo Loyola, Vice, November 2008, pp.100-2

Spank the Monkey, Art Forum, Eugenia Bell, p.338

Dr Lakra, Tank Magazine, Winter 2007

Dr Lakra, Sally O’Reilly, Art Review, Sept 2006, p.135

On The Cover: Eric Parker on Dr Lakra, Eric Parker, BOMB, N. 94 The Ameritas Issue: Mexico and the Gula, Winter 2005-6

Dr Lakra, único mexicano en Pin-up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Merry MacMasters, La Jornada, Mexico City, 27 December, 2004.

Arts Preview: Work at the cutting edge; Tate Modern is holding its first exhibition devoted to collage and drawing, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent, 2 December 2004

Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Sara Harrison, Art Monthly, February 2005

All stuck and scribbled, Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Sunday Telegraph; 19 December 2004  

Dr Lakra, Graphic Magazine, Dec 2004

Deliver Us From Evil, Martha Schwendener, Artforum, August, 2004

After Shock. Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice, New York City, 31 Oct 2003

Dr Lakra, Anna Goumal, Dazed and Confused, Nov 2003

Through the eye of a Needle, Big Issue, Oct 2003

Dr Lakra, Guardian Guide, Sept 2003

Publications

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009-10, Sally O'Reilly, Frieze, London 2009

Dr. Lakra, Health and Efficiency, foreword by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Editorial RM, Mexico City 2009

Viva la Muerte, Kunsthalle Wien, 2007

Cuestión Xeracional/ Generational Issue, exhibition catalogue, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Xunta de Galicia, 2007

Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/ Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007

Abraham Cruzvillegas & Dr Lakra: Los Dos Amigos – Abraham Cruzvillegas & Dr. Lakra, kurimanzutto, A&R Press, 2006

Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Emma Dexter, Phaidon Press, 2005

La Panaderia, edited by Yoshua Okon, essays by Carlo McCormick, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Eduardo Abaroa, Guillermo Fandanelli; introduction by Miguel Calderón; TURNER, 2004

Equation Du Soleil Noir: Peinture Contemporaine Du Mexique, exhibition catalogue, Instituto de México à Paris, text by Guillermo Santamarina, 2004

Dr Lakra has worked as a tattoo artist all over the world: México, D.F., Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Puerto Escondido, Puebla, Oaxaca, Tijuana, San Cristobal de las Casas, Los Angeles, Lancaster, San Francisco, Sacramento, Berlin, Madrid, London, Valencia, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Manila, Bagio City, Bontok, Hong Kong, Bowkok, Chiang Mai, Chiam Rai Pai, Cagada.