• Manuela Solano: From tender portraits of popstars to glammed-up dinosaurs and aliens, the Mexican painter shows a secular devotion to popular culture (Cover Story)
  Gaby Cepeda, ArtReview, 2025

• ‘I thought it was over for me’: Manuel Solano on painting after going blind
  Hettie Judah, The Guardian, 2022
• Manuel Solano Paints a Window Into Their World
  Henry Dexter, Cultured, 2022
• Review: Manuel Solano at Pivo
  Evan Moffitt, Artforum, 2021
• A Blind Artist Finds New Ways of Seeing
  Michael Snyder, Barbara Anastacio, The New York Times, 2018
• How blind artist Manuel Solano learned to paint again
  Jane Gayduk, Interview Magazine, 2018

• Manuel Solano: I Don’t Wanna Wait For Our Lives To Be Over,
  Alex Gartenfeld, ICA Miami, 2019
• We Can’t Make You Younger
  Benoît Loiseau, Galerie Karen Huber, Mexico City, 2017

b. 1987, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

2012, Bachelors of Fine Art at La Esmeralda, the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking, Mexico City

Selected Solo exhibitions

2026
Alien Queen/Paraíso extraño, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain (forthcoming)

2025
Alien Queen/Paraíso extraño, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Egogénesis, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid

2023
Pijama, Peres Projects, Seoul

2022
Ancestry, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
The Top of Each Ripple, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee, UK
I Still Look Like A Model, Carlos/Ishikawa, London

2021
Jacuzzi, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
Heliplaza, curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil

2019
Portraits, Peres Projects, Berlin

2018
I Don’t Wanna Wait For Our Lives To Be Over, curated by Alex Gartenfeld, ICA, Miami
Oronda, Open Forum, Berlin

2016
PUNCHIS PUNCHIS PUNCHIS PUM PUM PUNCHIS PUNCHIS PUNCHIS, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City

2015
Inherent Vice | Manuel Solano, Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Pintura enojada, Travesía Cuatro, Mexico City

2023
Soft Touch, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France
An AIDS Walkthrough, curated by Eric Lerouge and Samuel Perea Diaz, we are village, Berlin

2022
FUTURISMO, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Every Moment Counts - AIDS and its Feelings, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway

2020
Seized by the Left Hand, curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK

2019
City Prince/sses, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Visual AIDS, PARTICIPANT INC, New York

2018
Strange Messengers, Peres Projects, Berlin
2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Alex Gartenfeld and Francesca Altamura, New Museum, New York

2017
THEMSELVES, curated by Kristan Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon

2016
Straight From Mexico City, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, USA
Open Sesame, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon

2014
En el umbral (y sólo a unos pasos de la dimensión sublime de la belleza), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City

Selected Residencies

2023
BOFFO Residency, Fire Island, New York

Selected Public Collections

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, USA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA