Elena Tejada-Herrera was born in Lima, Peru. She studied at the Art Department of the Catholic University, at VCU in Virginia, and at SAIC in Chicago. Elena graduated as a paintor but was also working on installation art. Elena started to realize irruptive performances in public spaces. Soon after she incorporated video and continued to develop multimedia forms of art. Currently she continues to produce artworks that incorporate people's participation. Her trans-disciplinary artworks defy classifications and have a hybrid nature. Nowadays she has given the protagonism to the public.

Elena Tejada-Herrera nacio en Lima, Peru. Elena estudio en la Facultad de Arte de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Empezo pintando, para luego incorporar instalaciones. Elena realizo performances irruptivas en espacios publicos.Luego empezo a trabajar con el video y otras formas de arte de multiples medios. Elena trabaja en formas de arte participativas, donde el publico tiene el protagonismo y ya no ella. Su trabajo escapa clasificaciones, es de naturaleza híbrida y trans-disciplinaria.

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Solo exhibicions:

2025 Upcoming solo exhibition (Project winner of prize by the Minister of Culture Contest) Neglects and Caring, Kinetic Landscape, curated by Gisselle Girón, Lima, Peru. 2025 Upcoming Solo Exhibition at ICPNA (Peruvian American Cultural Institute), curated by Miguel López, Lima, Peru. 2024 Upcoming Solo Exhibition at the Projects Room at 80m2, Lima, Perú 2022 The Girls Learn to Fight and Las Bambas, Project Room 80m2, Lima, Perú 2021 Familiar Voices, a Drone, a Chess Game and a Song, curated by Gisselle Girón, Spanish Cultural Center, Lima, Perú. 2019 Politics of the Domestic Body, Between the Sexy and the Criminal, at the Neomudejar Museum, Madrid, Spain. 2016 Videos de Esta Mujer (Videos From This Woman) Solo Exhibition at Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru. 2015 Play Time Is About You!. A New Art Form: Zumba Installation: A collective creation by Elena Tejada-Herrera and The Very Creative Public at Hume Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. 2009 Animated Spaces, at the Gallery of the Peruvian Natioonal Library and at the Gallery Muro de Carne.

2008 Elena Tejada-Herrera About You at Dean Project Gallery, Long Island City Queens, New York, USA.

2006 Nouveau Bourgeois Latin Immigrant That Learned Shopping And Has Good Taste, and New Accents of Color, Performances at Union Square, New York City, USA. 2006 Burping Wonderwoman, Performances on the streets of Chinatown, New York City, USA.

2005 Nouveau Bourgeois Latin Immigrant That Learned Shopping And Has Good Taste, and Accents of Color. Street Performances at the Pottery Factory Mall, at the Williamsburg Outlet Mall and on Richmond Road in Williamsburg; Virginia. At Old Dominion University and at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, and in Newport News, Virginia, USA.

2005 Live Cinema, solo exhibition at the Glover Gallery of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Installation with paintings, prints and live video-performance using video feedback systems.

2004 Performances: I am the art, I am your mirror, and The homeless experience at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, USA. 2004 Hairy War, Sculptures and Installation at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, USA.

2000 Paintings, drawings, photography and video by Elena Tejada-Herrera, at the Cite Internationale Des Arts Art Gallery, Paris, France.

1999 Elena Tejada performance at; El Averno, Jr. Quilca, Lima Center, Lima, Peru.

1999 Performance: Interview to Fernando Ramos at the Museum of the Nation, Lima, Peru.

1998 Performance in the First lbero American Art Biennial of Lima at the Museum of Art of Lima, Lima, Peru.

1996 “Como Dios Manda” (paintings) at the School of Art's Gallery of the Department of Letters of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (San Marcos University), Lima, Peru. HONORS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES: 2024 Visual Arts Prize awarded by MINCUL (National Art Fellowships awarded by the Peruvian Minister of Culture by competition within the program “Estímulos para la cultura”). 2023 First Price Contemporary National Art Contest ICPNA. 2018 Residency at URRA, Tigre, Argentina. 2013 James Nelson Raymond Fellowship. 2011-2013 Trustee ́s Full Merit Scholarship by the Performance Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2011 Vermont Studio Center art residency, fellowship awardee. 2010 Atlantic Center for the Arts, art residency, fellowship awardee. 2009 Artist in Residency at Centro Foundation Telefonica, and project support, Lima, Peru. 2009 Nominee artist for Gassworks/Train, London, Great Britain. 2008 Nominee artist for the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation. 2007 Grand prix at the Parnu XIII International Film & Video Festival "Best AV action piece" for "Performance Collection", Estonia. 2006 Scholarship to participate in the Sidney Kahn Summer Institute Program at the Kitchen in New York City in collaboration with Sarah Lawrence College. 2005 Price for Best Installation Artwork and Honorable Mention in the Art Contest New Waves curated by Grady T. Turner and Sarah Finlay at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. 2003-2004 Nexus Award for Latin American Artist, fellowship and art residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. 2004 International Prize for best video-choreography awarded by the Luksuz International Festival of Cheap Film, Slovenia. 2001-2003 Several university scholarships and fellowships by the Painting, Printmaking and Extended Media Department of the School of the Arts of Virginia Commonwealth University. 2000 International Prize for best video project and video-installation project support sponsored by Werkleitz Gesellschaft from Germany. 1999 First Prize and honors scholarship to Paris in the visual arts competition Passport for an Artist sponsored by the French Government, France, with an art residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts. 1999 Honorable mention (with an installation) in the Young Art Contest in Miraflores sponsored by the Municipality of Miraflores. Lima, Peru. GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2025 Transfeminisms, curated by Franchesca Cubillo, Christine Eyene, Daria Khan, Maura Reilly, Dr Nat Raha, and Jennifer McCabe at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), USA (upcoming). 2024 Transfeminisms, curated by Franchesca Cubillo, Christine Eyene, Daria Khan, Maura Reilly, Dr Nat Raha, and Jennifer McCabe at Mimosa House, London (upcoming). 2024 Projecto AMIL Peruvian selection for the 2024 Gwangju Biennial, South Korea. 2024 Feet Under Fire: On Dispossession, curated by Miguel López from the Kadist Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panamá. 2024 At Ekumen, curated by Yssia Verano, Barranco, Lima, Perú (upcoming 10/2024). 2024 Video Instalación Elena Tejada-Herrera, cuarto de projecto, curated by Madelon van Schie at ROZENSTRAAT, Ámsterdam, Holanda. 2024 Finalists Art Contest MUCEN, Lima. 2023 National Contemporary Art Contest ICPNA, Gallery at ICPNA San Miguel, Lima, Perú. 2023 Never Cross the Same River Twice, videos curated by Kisisto Asangni, at Troy House Art Foundation, Londres, UK. 2022 Empowerment. Art and Feminisms curated by Katharina Koch, at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany. 2022 To craft and to name. Creating ways to relate to each other, curated by Gisselle Giron, at Von Volxem, Brussels, Belgium. 2021-2022 Who Will Write the History of Tears curated by Magda Lipska, Sebastian Cichocki, Łukasz Ronduda, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland. 2021-2022 Body Ecstatic Body Eclectic Body Eccentric curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt, ULAY Foundation, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2021 Hard to swallow, curated by Miguel Lopez, ICPNA, Lima, Perú. 2021 Genealogies in the Middle East and Latin America organized by Sharjah Art Foundation curated by Anna Goetz, online exhibition. 2021 Contemporary Imaginaries (Vol. II), Museum of Art of Lima, curated by Sharon Lerner, Lima, Perú. 2021 Passport for An Artist Aniversary Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, Perú. 2020 ARCO Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid, Galería 80m2, España, Madrid. 2020 Reactivando Videographies, International exhibition of video art curated by Gisselle Girón. 2020 11th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, curated by María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustín Pérez Rubio, Berlín, Germany. 2020 Oasis Paraiso, ED1 Economies of the Everyday, curated by Gisselle Girón, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru 2020 Corpografías en Contexto at Continuo LatidoAmericano de Performance, online exhibition. 2019 Curated by 2019-Circulation, curated by Manuela Moscoso and Ariel Schlesinger, at Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria. 2019 Queen Kong and the Fighting Girls, Solo Project at 80m2 Livia Benavides Gallery, Frieze, London, Focus Section, London, Great Britain. 2019 Where the Oceans Meet, curated by Gabriela Rangel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rina Carvajal, and Asad Raza, at the Museum Of Art and Design MDC, Miami Dade College, Miami, United States. 2019 Una Noche Inolvidable/ An Unforgetable Evening, Enhorabuena Space, Madrid, Spain. 2019 Horas Extra/Extra Hours at Sala Siroco, curated by Antoine Henry-Jonqueres, Madrid Spain. 2019 Sincrónicas. Horizontes del arte contemporáneo peruano desde el coleccionismo, El Instante Fundación, curated by Max Hernandez, Madrid, España. 2019 ARCO Madrid Art Fair, 80m2 Gallery, Madrid, Spain. 2019 ICPNA Contemporary National Art Contest, curated by Augusto Del Valle, Lima, Peru. 2018 Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking, Americas Society Gallery, New York, and at the Freedom Tour in New York and Miami curated by Gabriela Rangel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Asad Raza, NY, United States. 2018 Best in Show exhibition at Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. 2017 The Beholder, at SomoS Art, Berlin, Germany. 2017 Legacy and divergence: 78 years of Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, curated by Max Hernandez-Calvo and Moises Quintana. 2017 Gritty In Pink, Bailey Contemporary Arts, curated by Lisa Rockford and Megan Castellon, Florida, United States. 2017 Fiesta: We’re Happy in the Happy House, at Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru. 2016 Subverting the Feminine: Latin American (Re)marks on the Female Body curated by Isabela Villanueva at Y Gallery, New York, United States. 2016 Les Instants Video, 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival "Taboo/Transgression/ Transcendence" at Varts Areteos, Room 3, Former Asylum. Program IV: Oppressions and Resistances, University of Corfu, curated by Marc Mercier, Greece. 2016 Sex Habits In/habit roving art series at the Archer Ballroom curated by Rebecca Ladida, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2016 A Tragic duality, far as the curse is found. Raizvanguarda Associacao Cultural Bordeiro, Portugal. 2016 SINEMA OBSCURA - Odd Obsession Movies & The WRETCHED NOBLES Present: Zibahkhana (Hell's Ground) + Local Filmmakers Showcase at HQ, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2016 Online Screening at The Set Speaks, ACRE TV, program curated by Amina Ross. 2015 Chicagq @ MIX NYC queer experimental film festival, New York. 2015 Young Camelot & WRETCHED NOBLES Film & Video Series presents: Shorts Program: EGOS!, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2015 Chicagq, Perto de Lá residency, curated by Hanna Owens, Salvador, Brazil. 2015 The Wretched Nobles & YC "Best Of" Film & Video Screening & 1-yr Anniversary Party!, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2015 Specialties of the House, Urbano Project, Jamaica Plain, MA. USA. 2015 BQSTQN in CHICAGQ: an exchange of recent radical voices from Boston and Chicago at Comfort Station curated by The Pyramid, B. Jensen and H Owens, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2015 Bitchfest at Young Camelot, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Emily Esperanza. 2015 Chicago Home Theater Festival, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2015 Sublima Eros II, Sevilla, Spain. 2015 Love/Lust, at Interim Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 2015 Wonka Ball at About Face Theatre, curated by Alex Thompson; Chicago, IL, USA. 2015 Emily Esperanza, Young Camelot &Wretched Nobles Film &Video Series- Short Program: Relationships and Repetition. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 2015 CORDIS. género y emblemas del barroco americano, curated by Paola Vañó at the Centro Cultural de España (CCE), Peru. 2015 NOT YOUR TURN! at Cannibal Cartoon Exhibition, SUGS Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2015 2nd Floor Rear, curated by Katherine Waddell; Chicago, Illinois. 2015 Fog Fest at Pinky Swear, Chicago Illinois. 2015 Emily Esperanza, Young Camelot &Wretched Nobles Film &Video Series- Short Program: Sex&Chaos. A group exhibition. Chicago, Illinois. 2014 27th Festival Les Instants Video: For a free circulation of bodies and desires. Screenings at the Friche La Belle de Mai, Espace Culture, ADPEI, Videodrome 2, Marseille, France; and at the BOX Gallery, Milan, Italy. 2014 Biennial of Photography of Lima, Present Body: Photo/Video/Performance, curated by Jorge Villacorta and Carlo Trivelli, Lima, Perú. 2014 CORDIS Gender and Emblems of the American Baroque at the Museum of America, curated by Paola Vano, Madrid, Spain. (with Catalogue). 2014 Begira International Photo Festival, Durango, Spain 2014 Desobe-Videncia, videoactivism at Casa Gira Mundo, Rio de Janeiro, curated by Luis Saray, Brasil. 2014 Unclean Project, SomoS Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany. 2014 Video art at La Centrale gallery Powerhouse, curated by Hanna Owens, Montreal, Canadá. 2014 Pervers/cite queer arts festival at RATS 9 gallery, Montreal, curated by Hanna Owens, Canadá. 2014 Miami International Performance Festival at Edge Zones, Miami, Florida. 2014 Walk all over me, at Pinky Swear, curated by Ana Norell, Chicago, Illinois. 2014 Poet Video, at Pinky Swear, curated by Clothilde E.Double, Chicago, Illinois. 2014 Her Shorts, The Front, New Orleans, LA. 2014 ASCII 5, Tritriangle, Chicago, Illinois. 2014 Video screening at the Performance Festival at Casa Pausa, Lima, Perú. 2014 Videoada Vol. 6 2014, Lima, Perú. 2013 White Noise, Ruido Blanco, videoactivism at ASAB, Colombia. 2013 The Medicine Cabinet Video Exhibition at The Society of Smallness, curated by Georgina Valverde, Chicago, Illinois. 2013 Homeostatic Lab, curated by Julia Borges Arana at The Wrong Biennial, online media exhibition. 2013 Identity Void, Performance and Video Art, curated by Ana Norell, Chicago, IL. 2013 Thesis Exhibition The Monkey is Back, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, Illinois. 2012 Deformes International Biennial of Performance Art of Chile. 2012 SAIC Summer exhibition at AVU gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. 2012 12 inside at Gallery 30, Prague, Czech Republic. 2012 Other Flesh curated by Gianfranco Piazzini Alcantara, at the ICPNA San Miguel, Lima, Perú. 2012 First and Foremost, at the Defibrillator gallery, Chicago, Illinois. 2008-2011 Arte#Life, Action Art in the Americas 1960-2000, juried historical touring around different countries in Latin America, as well as to different states in the United States. In Mexico it was presented at the Museum of Art Carrillo Gil in 2009, and at the Museum of Art of the Bank of the Republic in Bogota, Colombia in 2010.