Minerva Cuevas is an artist creating research based projects that allow the audience an insight into the economic and political organization of the social sphere through site-specific actions and artworks.

She is the founder of Mejor Vida Corp. (1998) and the International Understanding Foundation (2016). Member of irational.org since 1999.

Cuevas’ solo exhibitions include: Disidencia, Mishkin Gallery, New York; No Room To Play. daadgalerie, Berlin, DE (2019); Dissidência, Galpão VB, São Paulo, BR (2018); Fine Lands, Dallas Museum of Art, USA (2018); Feast and Famine, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MX (2015); Minerva Cuevas, Museo de la Ciudad de México, MX (2012); Landings, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (2012); S·COOP, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (2010); Minerva Cuevas, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL (2008); Phenomena, Kunsthalle Basel, CH (2007); MVC Biotechnologies, Vienna Secession, AT (2001); On Society, MC Kunst, Los Angeles, USA (2007); Egalité (2007), Le Grand Café–Centre d’art contemporain, Saint Nazaire, FR (2007); Schwarzfahrer Are My Heroes, DAAD, Berlin, DE (2004); Mejor Vida Corp, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, MX (2000).

Cuevas’s work has been part of group exhibitions in institutions including: SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA (2019); Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX (2018); South London Gallery, London, UK (2016); MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT (2015); Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE (2016); Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2013); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, AT (2013); Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM/ARC), Paris, FR (2012); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE (2010); Pompidou, Paris, FR (2010); Redcat, Los Angeles, USA (2006); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (2005); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2003); PS1, New York, USA (2002) .

Her work has been present in the following Biennials: 4th Prospect New Orleans, United States (2017); Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom (2010); 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2010); 9th Biennale de Lyon, France (2007); Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2007); 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006); Tirana Biennale, Kompleksi-Goldi, Albania (2005); Biennale Of Sydney, Australia and the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2003).

She studied Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM, Mexico (1993-1997).