Frieda Toranzo Jaeger

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger (b. 1988 Mexico City, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. Her practice questions the political limitations of art as she negotiates the boundary of painting’s medium, incorporating Mexican pre-Columbian embroidery into its genealogy and expanding her canvases deployment into the sculptural. Self-driving automobiles and space exploration, imagery oft employed by Toranzo Jaeger, examines representations of masculinity in the visual culture of late capitalism. Her practice advocates for a new form of political knowledge within the painted object, questioning and further enveloping what constitutes a political encounter, Toranzo Jaeger obtained her postgraduate degree from the Hochschule Für Bildende Künste Hamburg, after having completed her professional studies there. In 2022, she was awarded the HISCOX Art Prize in 2016 and The Finkenwerder Förderpreis Prize from her alma mater. Solo exhibitions of her work include Visioni, at the Bonollo Foundation, Italy (2026); A future in the light of darkness, Modern Art Oxford, UK (2024); Autonomous Drive, MoMA PS1, New York (2023); and The Perpetual Sense of Redness, Baltimore Museum of Art (2021). A large-scale commissioned mural was exhibited as part of the 2024 Venice Biennale’s exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Her work can be found in international museum collections including the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Bronx Museum of Art, New York; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; the Detroit Art Institute; The San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, and Inhotim Museum, Brazil. She is currently a certificate student at the new center for research and practice in critical philosophy.