Profile

Professor Mauricio Guerrero Alarcón studied for his bachelor’s degree at the National School of Plastic Arts from 1974 to 1978. In 1996, he earned a Master’s degree in Visual Arts with a focus on Urban Art at UNAM, graduating with honors.

His professional artistic work began in 1976, when he participated in collective exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography, graphic art, artist books, Mail Art, and performed artistic actions in public and open spaces.

He took part in artistic research groups and utopian prospective architecture projects with the Tetraedro group (1976–1977). He also participated in the Salón Nuevas Tendencias (1977–1978). From 1979 to 1982, he co-founded the group março (pronounced “marzo”), where he edited the magazine março. As a member of the Mail Art group SOLIDARTE(1983–1986), he received special mention at the 1st Havana Biennial in 1984 for the collective work “Political Disappeared of Our America”, which was later featured in the exhibition Losing the Human Form at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid in 2012.

In 1989, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana invited him to exhibit in its shows on computer-assisted art and design. He was a pioneer in experimenting with telefax technology as a medium for artistic creation, transmission, and distribution through service 91-801 in Artefax V.

He authored a key historical text on Mail Art in Mexico, Mail Art in Mexico: Origins and Challenges from 1970 to 1984, published by UAM in 1990 with a foreword by Professor Juan Acha V. He created artworks in iron, bronze, wood, paper, and installation formats, and held a solo sculpture exhibition at UNAM’s Casa del Lago in 1984.

He co-organized the Otras Gráficas Encounter (1993), and conceived and directed The Tree of Life / Artefax III, presented in the outdoor space of the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art.

A sequence of eco-aesthetic works led him to head the research project Environmental Awareness through Artistic and Design Proposals: Experiences from 1996 to 2003, carried out at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), as well as the project The Cognitive Value of Artistic and Design Proposals.

He completed the research project, The Game of Environmental Sustainability through Art, which aimed to foster education and social responsibility toward the environment. He presented the project at the 1st National Congress on Environmental Education in Chiapas and the 9th World Environmental Congress in Vancouver, Canada.

He also worked on the research project Geographic Markings for Environmental Education, focusing on the Tropic of Cancer line in northern Mexico.

Since 1987, he has served as a Tenured Professor (Titular C) in the Division of Sciences and Arts for Design at UAM, mainly teaching in the Graphic Communication Design undergraduate program in the general, specific, and integrative core areas.

He held several roles at UAM, including Head of the Department of Environment in the Sciences and Arts for Design Division at the Azcapotzalco Campus (2006–2010). He served as a reviewer for the Design, Production, and Context Committee and was also the Head of the Design User Area.