Lourdes Grobet was born on July 25, 1940 in Mexico City. She studied Plastic Arts at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and Graphic design and photography a the Cardiff College of Art and at the Derby College for Higher Education in England. She has received 13 grants and awards, among those are: a price at the Emancipation and Identity Contest in Latin America 1492-1992, Quito, Ecuador, 1992; the award Juan Pablo Editores, Mexico, 1988; the award Purposeful Book, Mexico, 1984; and the Fine Arts Biennial Award, Mexico, 1982. She has exposed in different galleries around the world like the Silverstein Gallery of New York; the Cultural Center Tijuana and the Center Álvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, Mexico; Casa de América and Xanon Gallery, Madrid, Spain; the International Festival of Pyngao, China; the Museum Quia Branty, France; the Photography Festival Paraty Foco, Brazil; besides multiple galleries in Germany, the Netherlands, and England.

Her versatility has taken her to do works for theater, cinema and video presenting her work at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain (Grobet Witch Project); at the 36 New York Expo, Film and Video, New York; at the 13 International Festival of Electronic Art of Sao Paulo, Brazil; three video installations and a documentary about the Bering Strait presented in Mexico and France. It is important to mention that their works about the Lucha Libre (Mexican wrestling) made for the French television and BBC of London.

Grobet has given classes in several universities and colleges of Mexico, United States and England among which are the UAM Atzcapotzalco (Mexico); San José Center for Latino Arts, San José, California; the Stanford University, California; the Yale University, the Art Gallery, the Columbia College, Chicago, the Derby College for Higher Education, Nottingham and the Polytechnic and Wolverhampton College of Art, in England.

She has published five books: Se escoge el tiempo (Los Talleres, Mexico, 1983), Luciérnagas (ENAP, Mexico, 1984), Bodas de Sangre (Government of Tabasco, Mexico, 1987), Lourdes Grobet (Turner Ediciones, Spain, 2004) and Espectacular de Lucha Libre (Trilce Ediciones, Mexico, 2005), Retratos de Familia, Editorial RM (2009). Part of her collection is kept by the Helmut Gershaim Collection of the Austin University of Texas at Austin, the Museum of Photography of San Francisco, California, the Cultural Foundation Televisa, and the Institute of Culture of Veracruz.

Due to its academic training and the critical sense of the time, the origins of Grobet’s work are intimately related to contemporary painting. She was the student of artists like Mathias Goeritz, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, and Katy Horna, among others, who she considers her main influence, together with the legendary wrestler El Santo, the Enmascarado de Plata.

Great part of the photographic work of Lourdes Grobet is signed by transgression, humor and provocation. The artist is enemy of dainties, in the middle of paradox she always has a combat position: to look at the eyes of those who are not listened, she does not want to make images to be adapted to trendy topics. “I do not need to understand why I make photos. I’ve always been clear on why I work on a project.”