Dulce Pinzon

2020 - La véritable histoire des super-héros Festival de teatro ¿Qué onda México? Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, France

In Dulce Pinzon’s “Superheroes” series, costumes are superimposed on working-class Mexicans in New York: cooks, nannies, construction workers. These satirical scenes question modern heroism and bring into focus the vital role these individuals play in the lives of their families and in the economy of the larger community, on both sides of the border. She made these pictures, she writes, “to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper.”

2019 - Culture and The People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969 – 2019, Part I, El Museo del Barrio, Harlem, New York, USA

2019 - “Destination: Latin America”, LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

2019 - Men of Steel, Women of Wonder - Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, The Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA

2019 - Recent Acquisitions - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA

2019 - Lille 300, El Dorado Festival, The real story of the Superheroes, Lille, France

2018 - Destination: Latin America, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, USA

2018 - ZonaMaco Foto, Mexico City, Mexico.

For many years Pinzon focused a significant amount of energy in environmental issues and in 2017 staged the first artistic intervention with the introduction of the Generosity project, which has been described in the Mexican press as a project that "offers an environmental compromise with the community, having as a focused theme the use of Styrofoam."

2017 - Dulce Pinzon: Generosity, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

This project is easily Pinzon's best-known series and has been exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries and international art fairs. The process taken by Pinzón in her art photographic activism was cultural consumption (superheroes), customization (Mexican laborers portrayed as superheroes), and intervention (art displayed in mainstream areas such as museums, galleries and art fairs). Inspired by these photographs, in 2015 the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a social media campaign under the tag #MigrantHeroes "to invite people around the world to identify and tell the stories of migrant heroes."

2015 - Rosenberg Art Gallery at Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, United States

2014-2017 - Endowment of the Arts SNCA/FONCA Fellowship, Mexico.

2013 - LATINO/US Cotidiano, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA

2013 - Double Portraits, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA

2013 - Character Study, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA

2013 - The Real Story of Superheroes - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

2013 - Scope Art Fair, New York, New York, USA

In 2012 the photographic series was published in English, Spanish and French as a book titled Dulce Pinzón: The Real Story of the Superheroes (Editorial RM, ISBN 978-8415118244).

2012 - First Place Award - Sixth International Photography Symposium: Mazatlán Abierto, Mexico

2012 - “Ñew York”, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, USA

2011 - ZONAMACO Perrier Art Prize for Digital Photography, Mexico City, Mexico

2011 - Fotográfica de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

2011 - Pittsburgh Biennial, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

2011- 'Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie Festival, Arles, France

2011 - Dulce Pinzón: Superheroes - Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida, USA

2008 -The Real Story of Superheroes - Dicke Building Art Gallery at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

2008 - A Declaration of Immigration - National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2008 - Caras Vemos, Corazones no Sabemos: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

2007 - 2008: Kunsthaus Miami, Florida, United States

In 2006, Pinzón completed a project in which she photographed several immigrant workers in New York City dressed as superheroes who, like her, mostly originally came from the state of Puebla in Mexico. “They’re so quiet and hard-working and invisible”, Pinzón said of her subjects in a feature article in The New York Times in 2006. “I wanted to pay a tribute to them.” Pinzón drew on her nostalgia for Mexicopop culture as a medium to get her views across to through her art.

2006 - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography

2006 - Dulce Pinzon - The Real Story of the Superheroes - Queens Museum, New York, NY, USA

2002 - Mexican National Fund for Art and Culture grant

As it has been noted in academic research on her work, Dulce Pinzon's work is also clearly inspired by the dualistic culture within Mexicans in New York. She demonstrated this concept of dualism in her 2001-2002 project "Loteria" (Spanish for "Lottery"), which is a traditional Mexican card game. In this project, she used the card images from this well known Mexican card game, and projected these images onto the nude bodies of some of her New York friends and loved ones. This project is also representative of the Cuban scholar Fernando Ortiz Fernández concept of transculturation. By projecting the images of the cards of the "Loteria" game onto the human bodies of New York residents, she demonstrated how culture counter-flows through people's migration patterns, which is a form of cultural remittances.

Pinzón studied Mass Media Communications at the Universidad de Las Américas Puebla in Mexico, and Photography at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the United States . She moved to New York City in 1995 and studied at the International Center of Photography. She lives and works in Mexico and New York.

Dulce Pinzón (born 1974, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York, and Mexico City, Mexico. In 2015 she was named by Forbes Magazine as "One of the 50 most creative Mexicans in the world", and Vogue Magazine identified her as one of the "8 Mexican female photographers who are breaking through at a global level."