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Alicia Christov
A multifaceted artist
Journalist, photographer, documentarian, filmmaker, poet, producer, and creator of countless cultural, artistic, and social projects, she lived in New York, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Spain, and Italy.
Alicia Christov was born in Genoa, Italy, became a naturalized Mexican citizen, and has lived in Oaxaca with her family since 1997. She earned a bachelor's degree in Economics and International Relations and a master's degree in International Economic History at Johns Hopkins University. Among other jobs, she was a World Bank economist, barista, waitress, chef, domestic and agricultural worker, and journalist, first at Agence France Presse, Paris, and later at ABC News in Rome. In 1984, she moved to Nicaragua with her husband George Mead Moore, where she worked during the Sandinista revolution as a reporter covering Central American armed conflicts. Her son Leonardo was born there, and she created her award-winning documentary Women of Nicaragua/ War Against, presented in Oaxaca in 2017.
In 1987, she moved to New York City, where her daughter Indiana was born, and subsequently to a small town where she produced radio documentaries and founded an experimental primary school. In 1993, she moved with her family to El Salvador and, together with her husband and Salvadoran artists, founded the independent cultural center Cultural Exchanges of El Salvador, where she organized art, reading, and computer programs for children from marginalized neighborhoods and for young former gang members.
In 1997, she moved with her family to Oaxaca, Mexico. Among other projects, she acted as producer for the film Tooba, by the artist Shirin Neshat, filmed in Cuilapam de Guerrero, Oaxaca. In 2004, she left for the Iberian Peninsula and Italy, where she began the Juana's Odyssey in 2006, after the death of her mother, and returned to Oaxaca in 2010. In 2014, her poetry collection Blood Hospital for the Disenchanted was distributed for free through the Biblioteca Henestrosa and the samizdat system. In 2015, inspired by the language of the altar as an expression of love and mourning, and especially by the Van Eyck altar in Ghent, Belgium, she began creating the Juana's Altar, measuring 4 x 6 meters, in addition to hundreds of photo-paintings that include the work The Dream of the Dance of the Twelve Princesses, also 4 x 6 meters.
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In 2018, she began filming the short films Goggle Mansion, Juana's Paradise DMT, and many more, including, in 2026, Mátalas. In 2019, she developed the Virtual Museum of Juana's Odyssey with several programmers, which proposes an immersive experience of music and image. In that context, the exhibition Stand by Me was presented, in support of the Odyssey, with works by artists established in Oaxaca. In 2022, she created a physical installation of the Juana's Odyssey in Oaxaca, which was presented in 2023 at the Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca (IAGO). In 2025, she began preparing the Juana's Odyssey exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Oaxacan Cultures (MACCO), which will premiere in November 2026.
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