Mónica Alcázar-Duarte is a Mexican-British multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work acknowledges her indigenous heritage while exploring current ideals of progress. She embraces themes related to science and technology and their influence over society and the natural world. In her projects, she mixes images and new technologies, such as Augmented Reality, to create multi-layered work, producing meaning through seemingly disconnected narratives. Alcázar-Duarte’s work references western society’s obsession with speed, expansion, and resource accumulation as an index of advancement at a time in which ecological disaster looms, and considers other ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.

In 2022, she was awarded the Wayfinder Award from National Geographic, as well as a residency with Light Work through the Autograph Gallery in London.  Alcázar-Duarte has been granted fellowships by the MEAD Foundation, Ampersand Foundation, Bar-Tur Foundation, and the British Arts Council. She is a member of the board of trustees for The Royal Photographic Society. This year, she has been nominated for the Prix Pictet.

Her work has been exhibited and collected throughout Europe, Mexico and the United States in places such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Autograph Gallery in London and Wilhelm Hack Museum in Germany.