"... Elias Galindo-Lopez develops a speculation around sounds as traces: songs traversing time, carrying historical, organic, or geological imprints. Through them, he imagines a language born from breath and landscape, as if speech still carried the imprint of an animal and mineral time from which it emerged.”
— Salomé Fau, curator and writer, Villa Belleville, 2026
"... By positioning the body as both a perceptual and narrative medium, Galindo-Lopez's works question notions of spirituality, duality, and cultural syncretism. Rather than inviting passive contemplation, they encourage viewers to experience, sense, and engage."
— Collectif Iris Claude
Elias Galindo-Lopez is a Franco-Mexican artist born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1989.
He lives and works in Paris.
COLLABORATIONS
2025One million years (past and future), performance by On Kawara, Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, FR2025Mira Betz’s Show, Mexico City, MX2024"La fable des abeilles", performance by Sergei Tcherepnin -La République Cynique-, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR2024Rebreathing (Réinspiration), performance by Myriam Mihindou, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR2017Mardi Love’s Show, Mexico City, MX2017Mira Betz’s Show and Mirapiece Theatre “Click Bait”, Teatro de la Danza, Mexico City, MX2014Rachel Brice’s Show, Mexico City, MX2012“Quien habló del final de los libros”, Festival International Cervantino for the official program of the guest state of Sinaloa, Guanajuato, MX
RESIDENCIES
2026Villa Belleville, Paris, FR2026Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, FR
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT / MEDIATION
2025Comment devenir paysage ?, Workshop at YGREC Centre d’Art, Paris, FR2024Avenir, porte (à) voix, Workshop at The International Agora Academy, Adelboden, CH2024Avenir, porte (à) voix, Workshop in collaboration with the CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, FR2021Alien member, Workshop for the program Égalité des chances of the Fondation Culture et Diversité, Nancy, FR
EDUCATION IN VISUAL ARTS
2025-2026DE « Filière Fresque et Art en Situation», Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR2023-2025DNSEP, École nationale supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, FR2020-2023DNA, École nationale supérieure d’Art et Design de Nancy, FR
DANCE TRAINING
2010-2016Training in Eastern dance forms and movement practices with Nadia Ashjaee2012-2014Seminars in Suhaila and Jamila Salimpour Belly Dance Method2012-2015Training in classical ballet2012Contemporary dance seminars with José Gonzalez Besa et Vladimir Ipolitov, Grand Théâtre de Genève