Alejandro Gómez-Arias

Mexico

(Mexico City, 1985) Visual artist and experimental economist. Graduated from the ENAP, with a master's degree from the UNAM. He studied Political Economy at the UACM. He has exhibited in Mexico and abroad. He won the 2008 National Young Art Award and the Young Creative Scholarship, FONCA (2013-2014). His interests are directed towards the relationship between art and economic practices, conducting a theoretical-practical research on alternative markets and currencies. He has been a professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), at CEACO, and CCUT (UNAM). He was a member of the UVA Advisory Council, UNAM (2013-2015) and was a speaker at the III Forum of Economy and Culture (UACM-UAM-UNAM). In 2015 he was invited to present the book The critical thinking of the EZLN. Currently co-editing MM5. He is the founder of the Creative Monetary Fund.

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