• 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, Spain

2023
Pijama, Peres Projects, Seoul, South Korea

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

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

2019
Portraits, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

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

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

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Pintura enojada, Travesía Cuatro, Mexico City, Mexico

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

2022
FUTURISMO, Mendes Wood DM, Sao 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, France
Visual AIDS, PARTICIPANT INC, New York, USA

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

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

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

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

Selected Residencies

2023
BOFFO Residency, Fire Island, New York, USA

Selected Public Collections

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