Cristina Kahlo, photographer

Christina Kahlo was born Mexico City in 1960.

Kahlo has participated in more than 40 collective shows throughout Mexico, Europe, and United States, and she was awarded the Residence Scholarship granted by the Bartels Foundation of Basel, Switzerland in 2006.

She has made images of architecture and portraits as well as an extensive photographic documentation on child disability for various publications in Mexico and abroad.

From 1983 to 1985 she founded and directed the Alternative Gallery in Coyoacan, Mexico, and from 1986 to 1991 she founded and co-directed in partnership with Juan Coronel Rivera, the Kahlo Coronel Contemporary Art and Photography Gallery.  She collaborated with the New Vision Association of Belgium to create the exchange of Latin American photography between Mexico and Europe.