(detail) Moctezuma watching a comet from the roof of his palace in Tenochtitlán that José María Velasco would paint 400 years later, 2025, oil on canvas, 35 x 25 cm, 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.
Dexter Dalwood »Memoria en ruinas«
Mexico City, October 10, 2025 - November 15, 2025
Dexter Dalwood (b. 1960, Bristol) is a painter who currently lives and works in Mexico City. His work explores, through references to art history, moments in politics, culture, and personal memory; with these, he creates imaginary spaces that question how the traditional genre of painting reflects on the concepts of history, archaeology, and memory.
In 2025, he co-curated the exhibition José María Velasco: A View of Mexico, organized by the National Gallery in London in collaboration with the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In 2024, his first solo exhibition English Painting was held with Lisson Gallery. In 2017, he undertook an artist residency in Oaxaca, and upon returning to London, created the series An Inadequate Painted History of Mexico, which has since been presented in the traveling exhibition Esto no me pertenece at the Centro de las Artes San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico, and at the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City, Mexico (2021–22). Other major solo exhibitions by Dalwood include: Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (2013); CAC Málaga, Spain (2010); FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France (2010); and Tate, St Ives, United Kingdom (2010).