Lake Verea is a queer artist duo formed in 2005, consisting of Francisca Rivero-Lake Cortina (born 1973) and Carla Verea Hernández(born 1978), both from Mexico City. Their artistic collaborative practice focuses on expanded photography, integrating various media such as installation, textiles, performance, and video. Through this hybrid approach, Lake Verea experiments with photographic techniques and formats to create intimate and personal portraits, often questioning authorship and exploring themes of memory, portraiture, modern architecture, and the exploration of artists’ archives. Working across both analog and digital platforms—from 19th-century cameras to iPhones—they select their tools in response to each project’s demands. Frequently, they photograph simultaneously using two cameras, exchanging them mid-session to dissolve individual authorship and emphasize their identity as a duo. In some bodies of work, they inhabit personas during research and shooting, generating alternate narratives that subvert linear or canonical histories. At the heart of their work is a search for intimacy and storytelling—a commitment to seeing differently, to revealing overlooked details and proposing personal counter-histories through image-making. In 2019, Lake Verea presented Uno a Uno Bellas Artes, an exhibition and artist book that explored the iconic Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. The series featured one-to-one scale reproductions of architectural fragments, installed within the Museum of the Palace. Three pieces from this series were acquired by the Committee on Photography Fund of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and will be featured in the upcoming New Photography 2025 exhibition.
Lake Verea is a queer artist duo formed in 2005, consisting of Francisca Rivero-Lake Cortina (born 1973) and Carla Verea Hernández (born 1978), both from Mexico City.
Premio de Adquisición Colección Purificación García (Acquisition Award), Madrid, Spain
Premio Retrato XIII Bienal de Fotografía del Centro de la Imagen (Carla Verea), Mexico City, Mexico
International Photography Award, British Journal of Photography, London, UK
Primer lugar como retrato en serie, VI Bienal de Fotoperiodismo Centro de la Imagen (first place for portrait series), Mexico City, Mexico
Nuits Sauvages chez Barragán, Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Paparazza Moderna: Lovers and Frenemies 1921–1967/2011–2025, Yale Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Sonríe, Clic, Galería La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
Pupilas Dilatadas, Aparador I EDAI, Mexico City, Mexico
Mamut en el Museo Amparo, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Día y Noche, Memoria en Línea, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
2×2 Albers Lake Verea, Galería Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
Argent, Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Bloom, AGO-Photo by AGO-Projects, Mexico City, Mexico
Uno a Uno Bellas Artes, Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Paparazza Moderna, Vitra Design Museum Gallery, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Memoria en Línea, La Nueva Fábrica, Santa Ana, La Antigua, Guatemala
Paparazza Moderna. Schindler y Neutra en California, Capitulo II, Galería Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
Memoria en Línea, La Nueva Fábrica, La Antigua, Guatemala
Hay que Dar para Recibir, Carlos Mérida 1954 a 1968, NuMu Nuevo Museo de Arte Moderno, Guetamala City, Guatemala
Paparazza Moderna. Schindler y Neutra en California, Capitulo I, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
Paparazza Modern. Gropius y Breuer de Dessau a Nueva Inglaterra. Capitulo I., Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
Cuartos Obscuros, Barragán en Penumbra, Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico
(In)Seguridad, tipos de guardaespaldas en América Latina, Museo Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
(In)Seguridad, tipos de guardaespaldas en América Latina, Association of Photographers Gallery, London, UK
New Photography 2025: Lines of belonging, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Le Fils Rouge, Galería Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
El hilo conductor. Historias en la colección de arte contemporáneo, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Reflejos de Zohn, Casa Cristo Sede del Colegio de Arquitectos, Jalisco, Mexico
Lights for winter, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Casa ideal, Proyectos Multipropósito, Mexico City, Mexico
Construir, habitar, crear. 10 años de trabajo en comunidad, Collection Casa Wabi, Colegio de San Idelfonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Destructive Desires and Other Destinies of Excess, Blackwood Gallery at University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada
BPAC Photo, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Mexichrome, Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Reflejos de Zohn, Museo de la Cuidad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Black Mountain College and Mexico translation in motion, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Seeking Zohn, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bitácoras: Colección Fundación Casa Wabi, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
Rizo dreams, Dog & Pony, Spokane, WA, USA
6 Días de Frottage en pareja sobre la Piel de Barragán, Zona Maco Patio en Casa Ortega, Mexico City, Mexico
Normal Exceptions, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Elles x Paris Photo, Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Los Objetos en el espejo están más cerca de lo wue parece, Museo Autoservicio, Mexico City, Mexico
Pasajeros 04: Anni Albers, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
La Déesse Verte, Lille3000, Lille, France
Los Círculos de Mathias Goeritz, Galería La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
Podría ser (una Flecha): una lectura de la Colección Jumex, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Echoes of a Land, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Mexican Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Hay Futbol, Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
Guatemala from 33.000 Km, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Mapas en Construcción. Colecciones públicas de arte contemporáneo, 2009-2017, La Tallera Siqueiros, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Architecture of Color: The Legacy of Luis Barragán, Gallery Timothy Taylor, New York, NY, USA
Cuartos Obscuros, Barragán en Penumbra, Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai, U.A.E
Impossible Worlds: The Early Works of Pedro Friedeberg, Riverside Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Camino Real no existe, Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, Mexico City, Mexico
Persistencias II, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
Objectsfoodrooms, (repeat the same and its no longer the same), Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
El estado de las cosas, FotoMuseo 4Caminos, Mexico City, Mexico
La cuarta dimensión, Instituto de Visión, Bogota, Columbia
Plenilunio, Proyecta Oaxaca, Jardín Etnobotánico, Oaxaca, Mexico
Colectiva de Verano, Galería Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City, Mexico
Estudio Abierto #3, Index of victory, MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
The extraordinary within the Ordinary, 13th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Wuhan Museum, Pingyao, China
Lago Asfaltado, Museo Archivo de la Fotografia, Mexico City, Mexico
Permanencia Sismos del 85, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Max Cetto y Félix Candela, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Mayami Son Machín, Diet Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Incidentes de viaje espejo en Yucatán y otros lugares, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Incidentes de Viaje en Centro América, Chiapas Yucatán y otros lugares, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Proyecto Zócalo, Museo de la Cuidad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
(In)Seguridad Tipo de Guardaespaldas en America Latina, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
Barragán en Contexto, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Barragán en Contexto, Museo de la Cuidad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Black Mountain College Mexico, Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, NC, USA
Anni and Josef Albers. Lake Verea, Hatje Cantz. Ed. Karen Stein, Text by Lake Verea and Brenda Danilowitz, Graphic Design by Rutger Fuchs
Uno a Uno Bellas Artes Lake Verea, Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Text by Estela Treviño, María Minera, Fabiola Iza, Lake Verea
Echoes of a Land, 16th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Mexico Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Contemporary Art Mexico, Ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, Thames and Hudson, London, UK
Shooting Space, Ed. Elias Redstone, Phaidon Press, London, UK
Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Max Cetto 4 Estudios
A través de la máscara retrato fotográfico en México, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio y Vesta Mónica Herrerías en Colaboración con Alfonso Morales, Fundación Televisa y Aperture Foundation
Altex, un grupo 100% Mexicano, Editorial concept Daniela Rocha
Arquitectura Escolar SEP 90 años, Ed. Axel Araño, National Council for Culture and Art and Fragonard 70
Silverio, Escalvo (Book and Vinyl)
Luis Barragán in perspective, Exh. Cat., Seoul ArtCenter, Seoul, South Korea
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
JPMorganChase Corporate Art Collection, New York, NY, USA
Colección Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Collection Soho House, Mexico City, Mexico
Collection Fundación Casa Wabi, Mexico City, Mexico
Collection Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Collection Museo Rufino Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Collection Museo del Estanquillo, Mexico City, Mexico
Barragan Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Collection Petitgas, London, UK
