Aldo Cervantes (b.1997) is a Mexican-American photographer whose practice maps the emotional topography of migration, memory, and belonging. Raised between Tecate, Baja California, and the U.S., Cervantes began photographing his surroundings to process the in-betweenness of immigrant life. His work transforms domestic spaces, family snapshots, and gestures of labor into meditations on displacement and inheritance. He has been featured in the U.S. and the U.K. with organizations like The British Journal of Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, and the Mexicali Biennial. Cervantes holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and currently works between San Diego, Los Angeles, and Tecate.

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Education

2021 University of California San Diego, B.A. Visual Arts (Media)

Exhibitions

2026 TOPOGRAPHIX Latinx Photographers and the Suburban Landscape
Cerritos College Art Gallery
11110 Alondra Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650

2025 FotoSoCal: Concrete Hope/Esperanza Concreta
Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica College
1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA

Reencuentros: allá nos vemos/See you there
University Art Gallery, San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182

UnBound!14
Candella Gallery
214 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220

Alma Entre Dos Mundos
: Aldo Cervantes & Amina Cruz

MexiCali Biennal: PARA/normal Borders at MXCL BNL LAB
6545 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA 90601

2024 Athenaeum Music and Arts Library
32nd Annual Juried Exhibition
1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA 92037

2022 Air Place Studios Gallery, Print It! Group Show
Unit 2c, Aire Place Mills Kirkstall Road, Leeds, LS3 1JL

2021 Adam D. Kamil Gallery virtual thesis show
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093

Humble Arts Foundation
Virtual Group Show #67: Embracing Stillness

2018  C-NOTE Pop Up Art Sale
San Diego Art Institute
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

2017  Student Art Exhibition
Hyde Art Gallery
8800 Grossmont College Dr, San Diego CA