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Alinka Echeverría is a Mexican-British artist working in multiple media. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology and development from the University of Edinburgh (2004) and a postgraduate degree in Photography from the International Center for Photography (2008). Her research-based work brings an anthropological and counter-colonial approach to questions of visual representation. Her work has been widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Preus Museum, Norway’s National Museum of Photography, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, and The California Museum of Photography at UCR.

In 2020, she won the MAST Foundation Prize for her work Apparent Femininity. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Prix Elysée and was selected for FOAM Museum's Talent award for Nicephora, a research project about the representation of women that she started during BMW's Art & Culture Residency at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in 2015. In 2012, she was voted International Photographer of the Year by the Lucie Awards for Becoming South Sudan, and in 2011 was awarded the HSBC Prize for Photography for The Road to Tepeyac.  

Her work is part of public and institutional collections, including The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, BMW Art & Culture, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Swiss Foundation for Photography.