INFO
Alonso Cedillo is a Millennial artist that has explored our post internet world dissolving the limits between reality and fiction, as well as the analog and the digital for over 15 years. Defining post-internet as his medium, and his mediums as protocols, his work explores theory-fiction, with an emphasis on technology and simulationism, using post-internet reality as a working medium, through painting, sculpture, video, post-photography, web pages and machine learning.
His work has been shown at international venues like the Donaufestival, The Balcony, KHM, & TOGETHER, and in Mexico at the Museum of Modern Art, Museo Jumex, Festival Transitio, Museo del Chopo, NRML Festival, and Zona Maco among many others. He is part of NEEN, an art movement founded by Mai Ueda & Miltos Manetas.
Since 2012, his work has been exploring digital economy through the use of tokenization and community currencies by creating digital and in-world happenings through his ARGs and internet based projects. engaging with his players/public through Virtual & Augmented Reality, webpages, artificial intelligence and relational performances.
Immersing his viewers into an Earthly reality that sees no difference between the real and the virtual, Cedillo's work highlights the importance and uniqueness of human labor-generated data, which he considers the economic axis of the 21st century's economics.
His work has been collected publicly and privately in Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Argentina, Austria, Italy, France, and the United Arab Emirates.
Cedillo graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City in 2013.
Three years before entering art school, he joined Gilberto Aceves Navarro’s Drawing School, where he studied between 2006 and 2008. He later worked as Aceves Navarro’s studio assistant from 2008 to 2009.
In 2007 he met painter Rodrigo Pimentel and collector Andrés Blaisten, receiving private tutelage at Pimentel’s studio and through regular visits to the Blaisten Collection.
Throughout his career he has presented lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences on contemporary art, digital culture, simulation, and emerging technologies at institutions including KHM Cologne, Van Abbehuis, UNAM, Centro Cultural de España en México, Piso 16, Centro de Cultura Digital, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad Anáhuac and ENPEG “La Esmeralda”.
estudio@cedillo.io
Mexico City
Outside of his artistic practice, Alonso enjoys spending time with animals and has shared his life with dogs, cats, horses, sheeps, roosters, fish, frogs, and countless insects. He is particularly fond of rural landscapes, gardening, fermentation, and collecting design objects and books. He currently maintains a small garden at his studio in Mexico City, where he grows a variety of edible and ornamental plants.
Cedillo grew up surrounded by both music and storytelling. His mother is a pianist and fiction writer, while his father is a concert cellist. Music has remained a constant presence throughout his life, and alongside his visual art practice he continues to play guitar, compose, record, and occasionally release experimental music projects.
While much of his work explores simulations, networks, artificial intelligence, and digital environments, he remains equally fascinated by plants, animals, music, fermentation, tea, wine, history, and Go.
Alonso's Social Networks
