Last year, two powerhouses of the Mexican trans community, Sofía Moreno and Rojo Génesis, opened the Museo de Arte Transfeminino (Museum of Transfeminine Art) in Mexico City – the first museum exclusively dedicated to transfeminine art in the world.
The duo opened the doors in February 2025. Its first exhibition, “Cuinas”- “Queens” in Mexican slang- was welcomed by an opening party of approximately 500 celebrants shutting down the street. Since then, the museum has featured a new exhibition every month, platforming trans artists across Mexico.
Speaking to Them, Génesis explained that the first exhibition was intended to shift the focus from how trans people lived to instead “what people are doing”. The curator illuminated the motivation for this emphasis on living artists during the opening of the exhibition, noting that “It seems that people prefer to talk about trans women when they are already dead, because it seems more distant, more comfortable”.
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Prior to the opening of the Museo de Arte Transfeminino, the duo had worked together on their exhibition, Plasticidades Encarnada (Embodied Plasticities), which traces the experiences of the trans community from 1975 to 2025. Its mixed genealogy, including sculptures, contemporary art, and textiles, is a choice designed to embody the materiality of the trans community during the Dirty War years to refocus the conversation around trans rights and histories. The exhibition has now found a permanent home in the Museo de Arte Transfeminino.
Finding a space to rent proved difficult and served as a stark reminder of the difficulties still faced by the trans community in Mexico today. Speaking to Pink Ticket, Moreno shared that a common question she was asked while looking was, “Are you going to be doing sex work?’
“It always goes to that,” she added.
Despite the high visibility achieved by the Museo de Arte Transfeminino, Mexico remains a risky place for LGBTQ+ people, especially the trans community. However, with the Paola Buenrastro law passed in 2023 making transfemicide- murder of trans women specifically- a crime punishable by up to 70 years in prison, and 22 of Mexico’s 32 states now also permitting gender-marker changes, the momentum is there for further improvement.
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