B. 1980

Monica Lozano is a Mexican-American photographer born in El Paso, Texas and raised across the border in the sister city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Grounded in two decades of photographic documentation of the migrant passage in borders around the world, her elegant and socially charged portraits impart an understanding of the gravity of conditions that precipitate mass migration - from the act of making the perilous crossing, to the art of surviving what comes next. Documenting the migratory history of human beings and reaffirming the basic values and rights of human existence. In 2008, Lozano received her Master’s Degree in Fine Art Photography in Madrid Spain, where she created her first photographic series Borders. Her work has been exhibited in 21 Countries, receiving various international photo competition awards and grants. Press, media publications and books have included her work in various forms, Portrait of Humanity by British Journal of Photography and Magnum Photos, Two sides of the border by Architect Tatiana Bilbao and Yale University, Witness from World Press Photo and The New York Times, to name a few. In 2011, Lozano finished the Photo Global residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York City on the school's Presidential Scholarship. During that time her work was featured under the “One To Watch” section of American Photo Magazine and Columbia Journalism Review selected her under the “20 Women to Watch” list. Lozano collaborated with TED Award winner Artist JR on his Inside Out Project in Mexico creating and coordinating a massive worldwide public art action and installation called "Be The Change", this collaboration was made into a book in France and featured in the film Inside Out which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Today, Lozano is based in El Paso TX where she continues to document the dire conditions of immigrants, asylum seekers and displaced in borderlands, where she developed her most recent collaborative art project "WHAT REMAINS”, uniting art, research and education. This project speaks about the intimacy of a journey that apparently has no final destination, documenting the objects that immigrants carry through out their travels and What Remains with them in order to survive. This work is now part of the Renee Crown Institute of Wellness and the University of Colorado in Denver and Boulder, being a part of their developing multimodal research projects directed to vulnerable groups involving photography as a medium for youth to speak about their stories of migration and better understand the invisible borders that exist within their new context and education, those of "Trust and Belonging”. What Remains is now a traveling exhibition that has visited other borders like Northern Ireland and United Kingdom, Canada and United States with future stops to Guatemala and Berlin.