Alonso Cartú is a New York-based Mexican artist currently enrolled in the Parsons MFA Fine Arts program (2019). For the past ten years he has dedicated his practice to exploring the fields of architecture, sculpture and design in different schools and workshops in Mexico City, Paris, London, New York and Japan. As an artist he explores materiality through different elements such as frozen ink, melting wax, ice and butter, combined with the more stable structures of plaster, concrete, ceramics, wood and canvas.

Alonso Cartú is an artist committed to exploring materiality through different time-activated elements such as frozen ink, melting wax, ice and butter, combined with the more stable structures of plaster, concrete, ceramics, wood and canvas. In his work he portrays the concepts of loss, spirituality, death and gender along with joy, mystery, pain and nostalgia; In exploring this interconnectedness, he attempt to reach emotions and ways of being that connects materiality with the ideas of a universal human experience.