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Greta Rico

Greta Rico is a Mexican documentary photographer, visual artist, and educator focused on issues of gender, climate change, and food. Her work focuses on exploring new social representations in contemporary visual culture. Through her projects she reflects on the care economy, coloniality and the social trauma of current phenomena. Greta is a Leica Partner. A member of the Advisory Committee of Women Photograph, a Co-founder of Rosa Chillante and a proud member of Diversify Photo, Foto Féminas and Photographers Without Borders.

Greta has a Master’s Degree in Women Studies and is part of She Source, a panel of experts on gender issues from the Women’s Media Center. In addition, she has given conferences and Masterclasses internationally and has served as a project tutor in Mexico and Latin America. Greta has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in the American continent.

Her work has been published in magazines, print and digital media such as; Leica Photographie International, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Women’s Media Center, The HuffPost, El País and Lado B, among others. Greta has collaborated with UN offices and various civil society organizations. Greta’s photographic work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Mexico and in cities such as; New York, Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Quebec, Dubai, Tokyo and Valparaiso.

Greta Rico Sample 1
Julieta Flores, 14 years old, participates in the family harvest of native maize and Milpa in the town of San Miguel Xicalco in Mexico City.
Greta Rico Sample 2
Portrait of Francisca González, a Mazahua indigenous women with her native maize harvest in Ixtlahuaca, Mexico.

Greta’s photographic work is part of the National Museum of Health and Wellbeing Cultures – Kalan, the Photo Library Collection of the Alberto Beltrán Research and Documentation Center of the General Directorate of Popular Cultures of Mexico and the Mexican Photo-observatory.

Greta has participated in more than 50 group exhibitions, some of the most recent are listed below:

2025- THE ESSENTIAL LOOK – 100 YEARS OF LEICA
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
2025- INDEX FREEING THE ARCHIVE-FEMOGRAPHY
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
2024- XIAOMI – NIGHT HEROES
Pop-up exhibition at Fotografiska, Berlin, Germany.
2024- INTIMATE NARRATIVES
Online exhibition – Femgrafíagallery.com
2024- MOMENTS OF AN IMPERFECT WORLD
Doctors Without Borders, Spain, CCCB Barcelona
2024 – TERRITORIES OF SERENITY
Leica Gallery, Mexico City
2023 – THE DAY OF THE DEAD FROM WOMEN ARTISTS GAZE
Goodenough College, Bloomsbury, London
2023 – WITHOUT MAIZE THERE’S NO COUNTRY
Mexican Senate, Mexico City
2023 – 14 WOMEN IN PHOTOJOURNALISM
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
2023 – LEICA WOMEN PHOTO PROJECT SUMMIT
Leica Gallery, Miami, United States
2023 – VISA POUR l’IMAGE – VISA d’or DAILY PRESS AWARD
Caserne Gallieni, Perpignan, France
2023 – LATIN AMERICAN FOTO FESTIVAL
Bronx Documentary Center, NY, US.

Photobooks:
2024. Photobook, Local Heroes, Mexico
2022. Photobook, Urban Midwives, Chile.

Solo exhibitions
Greta has had more than 20 solo exhibitions, some of them are listed below:

2025, PEOPLE OF MAIZE
Seed exchange, Milpa Alta, Mexico City
2025, LIVES OF LATINAMERICA
Pop-up exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2024, PEOPLE OF MAIZE
Casa de las semillas de Milpa Alta, Mexico City
2024, ETERNAL CELEBRATION
Online exhibition for the Mexican Embassy at Japan
2024, GARDENS OF CHAOS, THE EXTINCTION OF FOOD
ZOOM Photo Festival. Cégep de Jonquière, Quebec, Canada.
2024, LOCAL HEROES
Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile.