Née en 1972, San Diego, USA, Alida Cervantes  vit et travaille entre les deux villes frontières San Diego, Californie et Tijuana, Mexique. 

Formation
Master Arts Visuels Université de Californie San Diego, Ca, USA ( 2013)
Scuola di Arte Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence, Italie (pendant deux ans)  
BA Arts Visuels , Université de Californie San Diego, Ca, USA (1995)

Expositions personnelles
2022

Future fair, New York, presentée par la Galerie Dix9
La nueva Pastelera, CEART, Centre National d'Art de Basse Californie, Tijuana, Mexique
2021 
Historia de una relación amorosa, Cob Gallery, Londres, UK
El Desastre Que Dejaste, Best Practice, San Diego, USA
2020
Untitled Art Fair, edition en ligne
2018
Pare de sufrir, galerie DESLAVE, Tijuana, Mexique
Figura en lo interior de la guayaba, Bread and Salt, San Diego, Ca, USA
2017 
Majas, cambujas y virreinacas, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, USA
2016 
50 Sketches Using Unmixed Black, Athenaeum, La Jolla Ca, USA
2013
Historia de una relacion amorosa, Marcuse Gallery UCSD, La Jolla, Ca, USA
2011 
Los mas barbaros, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, Ca, USA
2007 
About Me, Athenaeum, La Jolla, Ca, USA   

Expositions de groupe
2018
 
Known Unknowns, Saatchi Gallery, Londres UK
Do you Believe in Life After Love, DESLAVE, Tijuana, Mexique
Being Here With You / Estando aqua contigo, Musée d'art contemporain San Diego, Ca, USA
2017 
How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney's Latin America and Latin America's Disney, MAK  Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, US, dans le cadre du programme Pacific Standard Time de la Fondation Getty: LA/LA initiative
Making Communities: Art and the Border, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, Ca
2016 
Intersectionality, MOCA, Miami, US. 
Short Films by or About Women, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, Ca
La distancia corta,  Instituto de Cultura, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas
2015 
Pangea II: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery Londres, UK
Revision Glocal Beijing-Tijuana, El Cubo @ Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexique
Coleccion Elias Fontes, El Cubo@ Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexique
2014 
Hidden and Revealed: Representations of Women by Women, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca, US
Forms of Temporal Permanence, TJinCHINA, Tijuana, Mexico
Occupy Thirdspace, Space for Art, San Diego, Ca, US
2013 
SUR Biennial, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, Ca, US
The Very Large Array,  Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Ca, USA
Incomplete Survey, Space for Art, San Diego, Ca, US
2012
YOU: Investigating Identity, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, Ca, USA
2011
 
Obra negra,  El Cubo,  Tijuana, Mexique
Vantage Point: Visual Dialogues, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, Ca, USA
2010 
Chewbacca to Zapata: Revisiting the Myth of the Mexican Revolution, Morno Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca, USA
Salon Summer Series,  San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Ca, USA
2009 
Homing In,  Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego, Ca, USA
2008
Who Do You Love?,  L Street Gallery, San Diego, Ca, USA
2007
Viva Mexico!, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Pologne
People, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca, USA
New Contemporaries, Simay Space, San Diego, Ca, USA
2006 
Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo, Perspectivas de Tijuana, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art