Denise De la Rue

Donated by Denise De La Rue 

Born in Mexico City, Denise De La Rue studied art history in her country of origin and in Italy. A multidisciplinary artist, her practice includes photography, video and interventions in historical places, as well as her latest citywide installation of more than one hundred billboards bearing peace statements by writers, philosophers and activists in Mexico City.

Ms. De La Rue has worked with the Spanish Ministry of Arts and Culture and museums such as El Prado Museum, the Picasso Museum, the National Gallery London, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the National Museum of Art in Mexico, the art collection of Ducal House of Alba, among others. Her work is represented in institutions such as the Jumex Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Pérez Simón Collection and the Coppel Collection, as well as many other important private collections.

De La Rue was the first Latin American artist exhibited by Gagosian Gallery, as well as the third artist that El Prado Museum granted permission to photograph inside the Museum behind closed doors for a personal project. She is also the first artist to which the Succession Picasso granted permission to use “Guernica” for a new blended contemporary piece of art: “A Cry for Peace” premiered at the United Nations headquarters in New York during the General Assembly of 2014.

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