Born Mexico 1972, lives and works in Oaxaca, Mexico

Solo Exhibitions

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 Contemporaneo 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, Cafe Primo, Berlin

1990
Dr. Lakra, Galeria Caracas, Berlin

1989
Dr. Lakra, Galeria El Juglar, Mexico City, Mexico

Group Exhibitions

2009
Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry

2008
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery

2007
Goth: Reality of The Departed World, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Feral Kingdom, CCA Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow
Cuestion Xeracional/ Generational Issue, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary art, Chicago

2006
Spank The Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
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
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

1997
The Light of Jesus, The Drawing Collective, Los Angeles

1995
Pierced Hearts and True Love; a Century of Drawings for Tattoos, The Drawing Centre, New York

Selected Press

Slide Show: Dr. Lakra applies an Ink Gun to Mexico's Cultural Heritage, Nils Bernstein, VanityFair.com, April 2010 

Dr. Lakra, ICA Boston,Roberta Smith, NYTimes.com, April2010

Retrive, Mariuccia Casadio, Vogue Italia, November 2009, pp. 142-7

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, Unico 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
Cuestion Xeracional/ Generational Issue, 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 á 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.