Joaquín Segura’s work expands through installation, sculpture, painting, photography, video, and weaving. His imagination stems from the symbolic deconstruction of foundational notions such as history, truth, and power in the ideological systems of the 20th and 21st centuries
His practice is grounded in his own archive of over a thousand printed materials on totalitarian regimes, political violence, and radicalism on both the left and the right. From this collection, he draws images, slogans, and the iconographic legacy of radicalism, repositioning them to highlight the contradictions of the contemporary geopolitical order. His work questions who controls information and how the influence of major powers operates. Attentive to conflict zones around the world, he returns to Mexico, where authority is fragmented among the state, organized crime, and U.S. interference.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Joaquín Segura (Mexico City, 1980) earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication with a specialization in Film and Video from the Universidad Iberoamericana (1999–2004). Shortly thereafter, he studied photography and alternative media at the Centro de la Imagen (1998–2003). He is a founding member and board member of SOMA in Mexico City and serves on the board of directors of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE). Additionally, since 2018, he has been a member of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA).
His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Siqueiros Public Art Gallery, the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, La Panadería, Estación Material, and the Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico, as well as at El Museo del Barrio, Anthology Film Archives, White Box, and apexart (New York), LA><ART and MoLAA (Los Angeles), the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), the National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow), The Modern (Fort Worth), MCA Denver, and the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), among others.
His work is included in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Fundación M, the Ashida Cueto Collection, the Phillips/Yuyito Collection, the Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, the Walker Art Center, the National Gallery of Victoria, and Kadist.
Don’t Stop Believin’
MAY/23/26 - AUG/15/26
Éminence Grise
FEB/06/23 - APR/07/23
Joaquín Segura
Llegará un momento en que la ira sea una brisa en la cara I (Bestia)
Silk screen print on intervened recovered pamphlets
28 1/2 x 38 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.
2026
Joaquín Segura
Sin título (Beso de la muerte)
Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper
39.37 x 59.01 in
2024
Joaquín Segura
Sin título (Yaesu FT-707)
Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper
39.37 x 59.01 in
2024
Joaquín Segura
70%
Recovered ammunition and intervened wall
2023
Joaquín Segura
70%
Recovered ammunition and intervened wall
2023
Joaquín Segura
Victoria sin armas
Oil on Canvas
84.6h x 51.1w x 2.3d in
2023
Joaquín Segura is a mentor for the International Program in Radio 28 cs
Joaquín Segura Keynote "Lecture: Burning Old Grass: Reflections on the Sociopolitical Uses of Fire in Latin America and Southeast Asia"
Joaquín Segura Artist in Residency at Singapore Art Museum
Joaquín Segura in “Transitive Properties”, a curatorial research project developed by Sylvie Fortin in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joaquín Segura is a mentor for the International Program in Radio 28 cs
Joaquín Segura Keynote "Lecture: Burning Old Grass: Reflections on the Sociopolitical Uses of Fire in Latin America and Southeast Asia"
Joaquín Segura Artist in Residency at Singapore Art Museum
Joaquín Segura in “Transitive Properties”, a curatorial research project developed by Sylvie Fortin in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joaquín Segura in “Todo el tiempo que sea necesario”, curated by Atomic Culture, ¿Tierra y Qué?, Marfa, Texas
Joaquín Segura in the curatorial committee of the Fountainhead Artists in Residence 2025
Renata Petersen and Joaquín Segura in "ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB", Judd Foundation, New York
Joaquín Segura and Mauricio Limón at the MAM
Joaquín Segura enters the collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Joaquin Segura en "Pop, political, punk", MAM, Mexico City
